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Summary: Light yet Addictive
Review: Cannie is truly a character everyone can relate to. She's real, she's fat and she's struggling with so much on her plate. I don't want to spoil the ending but I got to say that Peter is the best match for her. Let Bruce smoke up all his weed and miss out on what a fanatastic human being Cannie is!
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Summary: So fun!
Review: So far, I haven't been swept away with admiration for the Chick Lit genre, but this book is truly unique in its realm. I found it to be well written, highly comical and the main character is very well developed, on many levels.Good In Bed might remind you of another book that you have read before, and that would be one of those stories that was heart warming and an easy, light read. I look forward to reading more from this talented, young author. A surly reviewer on this page has suggested that one read Watership Down instead of Good In Bed and I had to laugh at that. I say read Watership Down too, not instead and then realize that every book we read is as different as each person who walks the earth. By knowing many books, we learn more about various genres. Given that I have done my duty after enjoying the book and professed that the book was a good read, I do have to point out an editorial gaffe. On page 285, Cannie and Maxi have just purchased greasy fries and are eating them with their feet "dangling in the water" at Santa Monica Pier. Santa Monica Pier is too high over the water to have your feet in the water while sitting on the edge of the pier. It does offer a nice image though! Nicole Flowers
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Summary: not what I thought
Review: I usually check out the "Customers who bought this list" to find things similar to books I have read and like. This is nothing like any of the oother books on that liskt other than it si about a women. It was horribly depressing and the ending didn't make up for the sadness of the rest of the book. I had a couple of cute parts but not enough for me to suggest it. I love Jane Greene and this is nothing like any of her books.(thank god I bought it on sale)
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Summary: If you love real life nuances...you'll love this...
Review: Although this book had a somewhat slow start, I found it to be funny, interesting and eventually hard to put down. The real-life experiences are hillarious and so right on target that it sometimes reminded me of my own life. It was a full circle of love, loss, love and self-awareness healing. Cannie is a down-to-earth character that embodies traits of every single young woman looking for love while dealing with self-acceptance issues and body image stereotypes. When she truly finds love it's right in front of her eyes and she ignors it - shoos it away and slams the door on it. What makes this book so good is that the author, Jennifer Weiner, doesn't reveal the ending within the story. I love to read a book without knowing how it will end. Some stories you can tell by the 3rd chapter or half way through, but not this one, it keeps you hanging on til the end. I highly recommend it for fun summer reading!
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Summary: PU-LEEZE
Review: This was perhaps my fifth book in chick-lit education, and I have to give it a D. Maybe because I'm sick of graduates in English (and BTW, Proust was not an English writer) or media studies thinking they can write a first person narrative loosely based on their own experiences and substitute pseudo-smart observations for plot, and then call it fiction. Ironically, I got into this novel quicker than other novels of its ilk, but "Good in Bed" (misleading title) lost me forever at page 105. I can't take being inside the head of a mean-spirited, self-absorbed individual anymore, no matter how much I might sympathize with her fatness. Does being fat give you a right to bad manners? Cannie publicly humiliates a man who asks her out for dinner as soon as she finds out it is not a "date." She is nasty and belligerant to the nurse at the diet clinic. The author (via her character) takes pains to illustrate the injustice of the generalizations and labeling that overweight people are subjected to, and then goes into a spurious and irrelevant spiel about how she doesn't like Celine Dion, her singing, looks or lifestyle, and Canadians in general, it seems. The novel loses all direction after page 60, going off into unedited ramblings, which are less than humorous. Where were the editors? Much of the text should have been excised. The name of a restaurant even changed in the space of one page. I hate it when I'm so blatantly thrown out of a story because of careless editing. Judging by the author's photo, Jennifer Weiner looks like a nice person, but the book lives up to her name.
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Summary: A Cinderella Story (where I didn't envy Cinderella)
Review: Every chick lit novel, every girl's life should by like Candice Shapiro's, the heroine of this book. She is the poster child for the average 29 year old female living in today's society. Struggling with her weight and appearance, along with bouts of family problems and financial issues, she overcomes obstacle after obstacle. But she doesn't do it alone, she does it with the help and support of those who love her for the great person she is. I read this book because I wanted to read its quazzi-follow up, In Her Shoes (soon to be made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz). Now I can't wait to read In Her Shoes because Good In Bed was such a delight. It wasn't angst-ridden or rebellious, having a larger woman as the main character. Most books show the slender population as "evil" but Candice (a.k.a. Caddie) just lives taking in each person for what they are worth (on the inside). Her personal struggles are fully understandable and none of her actions seem unjustifiable or outrageous. She has a fear of love, but within reason. Her struggles are relateable for all people. My personal life is very different from her's but I sympathized and understood nonetheless. I literally finished the book five minutes ago, and I am totally in good spirits. A great, quick read that never dragged. Recommended very highly!
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Summary: Great debut!
Review: Cannie Shapiro is a character that every woman can relate to in one way or another. I loved the fact that a larger woman was the focus (and not the comic relief) of this book. I found myself laughing out loud at some of the situations that only Cannie could find herself in. This book will pull all of your strings. You will: cringe in embarrassment for her, cry with her, rage with her, roll your eyes at her mother, feel like shaking Bruce until his ponytail falls off, and most of all you will love her. Unlike the a lot of "curvy women" books, Cannie doesn't miraculously lose all of her excess weight and become supermodel extraordinaire. She does, through a series of tragedies obtain thiness, but finds the price too high to pay. She eventually gains most of her weight back and it is a good thing. If you have ever been made fun of, belittled or felt that you didn't belong you will feel a kinship with Cannie Shapiro.
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Summary: What a good book!
Review: I loved this book, I think that any woman can relate to this book and probably at some point in her life relate to one or many of these issues! It was a quick read and hard to put down, you always wanted to know what would happen next.
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Summary: Great read for the beach this summer!!!
Review: Once I started to read this book I could not put it down. It is a "feel good" book that almost any woman can relate to.
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Summary: Better than a Harlequin
Review: Good in Bed, what a catchy name for a book. The title, admittedly, was one of the reasons that I picked it up. This book is definite chick-fiction. To my delight this story was funny, sad, yet triumphant. It was not easy to put it down. Jennifer Weiner's character, Cannie, will inspire the reader. The story covers everything from being dumped, meeting and befriending a movie star, to total self-acceptance.
The list of characters put the fun in dysfunction. Cannie is a young woman who tries to make sense out of the cards that have been dealt to her in her life. She has a dead-beat dad who took off when she was young. After her parents divorce, her mother discovers that she has fallen in love with a woman named Tanya. Then there is Cannie's sister, who tries her luck with stripping. Her ex-boyfriend, Bruce Gooberman, who is an editor of a column called 'Good in Bed,' has exasperated the two's love life through the tabloid.
What would one feel if something like this happens? When it happens to Cannie she is hurt. She tries her best to get on with her life. She still can't stop thinking of Bruce. Then when tragedy strikes his family, Cannie is there for him. He uses her one last time; the pain from this is almost more than she can bear.
At one point in the book, you almost hope that Cannie will get back together with Bruce. When it doesn't happen, you feel her heart breaking. Who would have thought that there was something better waiting for her just around the corner?
Cannie is strong, but doesn't realize that she is. Her adventures show her strengths and weaknesses. This story takes you from the lowest low and rides with you until you reach the top. I was able to see a lot of myself in this story. I just hope that my ending turns out as well.
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