Sun Signs

by Linda Goodman (Bantam Books, 1968)
by Laura Kallio

If you know little about astrology or the wide ranging implications of your Sun Sign, than this, Goodman’s first book, is the place to begin. Whether your curiosity is only fleeting (shame on you!) or whether your desire to fully comprehend the universal truths that astrological study affords is of genuine importance, Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs delivers.

Goodman breaks down each of the twelve Sun Signs into six categories, including a general overview of the sign’s characteristics and sections on the male, female, child, boss and employee counterparts of each sign. Goodman’s accuracy and thoroughness are complemented by her easy, often witty writing style.

Why does your Libra boyfriend take forever to decide what to order at a restaurant? Where is the Gemini who, after a week, still isn’t back from the corner store where he went to get a loaf of bread? Why is that Taurus so stubborn? Why is it that the Pisces publisher of this very magazine behaves more like a whale than the fish he supposedly is? It’s in the book.