![]() Inside, Goodman peppers lengthy, prose-poetry musings with whimsical, often wackadoo flourishes, speaking of “windows of the soul,” “faeries,” and how “love alone has the power to bring peace at history’s twilight hour to Earthlings of good will.” Rest assured: I’m not the sort of person who capitalizes Earthlings, much less the type to drone on about faeries. My personal copy comes complete with a New Agey maroon cover featuring hearts and stars and a lion cuddling with, I believe, a ram. I do, however, have one deep, dark secret about how I approach my love life: Every time I meet someone promising, I turn to Linda Goodman’s Love Signs: A New Approach to the Human Heart, a 1,000-page astrology book published in 1978 that quickly became a best seller and set a record with $2.25 million paid for paperback rights. I don’t spend hours on the phone with my mom asking for romantic advice, and though I do talk to my friends about the men in our lives, I also talk to them just as much about work, traveling, our families, and whatever else we have going on. I don’t go to therapy (though maybe I should). ![]() I do not, as a rule, read relationship self-help books. ![]()
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