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 enlarge | Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  141 reviews
Sales Rank: 1119
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0743294254
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780743294256
ASIN: 0743294254
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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Condition: Sound Copy. Mild Reading Wear.
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 Not bad August 18, 2008
Not a bad follow up to Good In Bed. Something towards the ends happens that I didn't think was necessary to the story and it would have changed how I felt about it. I don't want to give it away though...
 Weiner is always a solid writer August 18, 2008
This is another very good book by Jennifer Weiner. I had to give 4 stars because it is, in my opinion, not as good as all her others including the short stories. I wish this author didn't get labeled "chick lit" because her writing is far too good for that.
 Read with caution August 15, 2008
I loved Good in Bed and was so excited to read this one. I was shocked at the difference and didn't like it. First of all the chapters alternate between the views of Cannie and Joy, and sometimes it gets confusing, especially one when they are with Cannie's mother, I had to check back to the last chapter to check whose mindset I should be in right now. And then of course the ending had me crying and just ruined the book for me. Cannie had been through so much and I don't see why Weiner had to have that happen. Don't read this unless you want a depressing ending.
Great sequel but perhaps unnecessary... August 15, 2008
I am really split as to how I feel about the book. On one hand, after The Guy Not Taken and Goodnight Nobody, I was relieved to have an actual novel from Jennifer Weiner that was reminiscent of her earlier books that I loved so much. That said, although this was a well-written book with parts that literally made me sob unabashedly, I think it was perhaps unnecessary. Whenever I read a great book and love the characters, I hate to leave them behind and want to be able to read more about them. However, even though it is so hard to leave much loved characters behind, sometimes it is for the best because continuing the story does not necessarily add more or make the first book better. I feel that Certain Girls was a victim of this phenomenon. I just don't know that it made Good in Bed better for me or that it continued the story in a way that it needed it to be continued. Nonetheless, it was a beautifully written, very realistic book, and while perhaps unnecessary, certainly not disappointing, and the best from Jennifer Weiner in recent years.
Mommy deserves some time off August 1, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Jennifer Weiner is the mother of two young children, a blogger, a wife and a prolific author who increasingly seems to be suffering from burnout. Her last book was a collection of old short stories. This book reads like a halfhearted offering by an (understandably) overtired, creatively drained new mommy who didn't want to write it in the first place. (In Certain Girls, Weiner's alter-ego, Cannie, is hounded by her editor to write a sequel to her successful first novel, a plot point that seems a little too autobiographical.) Whole chunks of the plot of Certain Girls come out of left field, as if the author hurriedly switched around or deleted scenes, and then didn't read the final draft to make sure everything still made sense. One example: Halfway through and with no warning, Cannie's flaky sister inexplicably gets her act together thanks to a barely explained quasi-religion called Be-ism, which she has apparently discovered "off-screen." Weiner is one of the better light-women's-fiction writers out there. I wish for her a year off to recharge her batteries.
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