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Animal Husbandry
Animal Husbandry | Laura Zigman
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New cow... Ray makes the move. Jane feels the rush. Ray says the L-word. Jane breaks her lease. Then suddenly, inexplicably, he dumps her. Just. Like. That. ...old cow. Now black is the only color in Jane's closet and Kleenex is clinging to her nose. Why did it happen? How could it have happened? Moo. Jane is going to get an answer. Not from Ray. Not from her best friends, David and Joan. But from an astounding new discovery of her own: The Old-Cow-New-Cow theory. Forced to move into the apartment of a womanizing alpha male named Eddie, Jane is seeing the world of men and women in a brilliant new light. And when she takes her Old-Cow-New-Cow theory public, it will change her career and her whole life. Unless, of course, she's got it all wrong....
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Animal Husbandry | Laura Zigman
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Such a cute contemporary fiction way backlist title (1997). Some quotes in the movie based on it (Someone Like You, an old fave) were pulled directly from the book, but the ending was quite different.

Jane works in talent booking at a TV talk show. She starts a steamy affair with a coworker, but when it goes belly up, she loses her apartment and becomes roommates with a womanizer. She starts developing funny, unhinged theories based on these men.

ChaoticMissAdventures I didn't realize the movie was from a novel! I really liked it when it came out. Ashley Judd was such a sweetheart romcom actress 10mo
Megabooks @ChaoticMissAdventures agreed! And Hugh Jackman was at peak hotness. 😍 10mo
BarbaraBB Another great photo! Looks like summer over there ❤️ 10mo
Megabooks @BarbaraBB we‘ve had such beautiful days here. It‘s sunny today, too! 10mo
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Animal Husbandry | Laura Zigman
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A very #authoramonth themed library/used book haul! So happy I own a hardcover of the Groff short stories because the cover is SO SUPERIOR to the paperback!

Animal Husbandry is a very backlist title that was turned into the 2001 Ashley Judd/Hugh Jackman movie Someone Like You. I happened to love this movie when I was 21, so we‘ll see if I love the book it was adapted from at almost 44!

Soubhiville Oh I didn‘t know that! Cool. 11mo
squirrelbrain Great haul! 11mo
BarbaraBB That Groff is lovely! And she‘s a favorite author of you so you deserve the beautiful edition! 11mo
Megabooks @BarbaraBB thanks! I think I may have read it when it came out years ago, but you know I‘m always up for a good short story collection reread. 👍🏻 11mo
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eachwishrezigned
Animal Husbandry | Laura Zigman
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I‘m sorry, what?

On the page before this, it also said, “I could feel the autism setting in again.” The character isn‘t autistic...

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TheGing
Animal Husbandry | Laura Zigman
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After how terrible 2016 has been to me, this was something I needed to read.

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TheGing
Animal Husbandry | Laura Zigman

"I started to sweat like Richard Nixon"

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kay89
Animal Husbandry | Laura Zigman
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This book is making me cackle! My mate is side-eying me. The description of the Coolidge effect.

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kay89
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This book is pretty spot on...

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