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Certain Girls: A Novel
by: Jennifer Weiner

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780743294256
ISBN: 0743294254
Label: Atria
Manufacturer: Atria
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: April 08, 2008
Publisher: Atria
Studio: Atria
Sales Rank: 324

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Product Description:
Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine.

Now Cannie's back. After her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life -- became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym. She's happily married to the tall, charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky and has settled into a life that she finds wonderfully predictable -- knitting in the front row of her daughter Joy's drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend Samantha.

As preparations for Joy's bat mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie's world. Then Joy discovers the novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth about her own conception -- the story her mother hid from her all her life. When Peter surprises his wife by saying he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to reconsider its history, its future, and what it means to be truly happy.

Radiantly funny and disarmingly tender, with Weiner's whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations of modern life, Certain Girls is an unforgettable story about love, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Really amazing sequel!
I really loved this book, because Good in Bed left me wanting more of a story. While Certain Girls is different... I still loved how Weiner treated the story.

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- Not fair to compare it to its predecessor
I think readers need to remember that this book is set many years after Good In Bed was written so, essentially, you're being introduced to a character who, while she may bear a resemblance to her younger self, is a changed person. I think that is actually one of the most fascinating things about this book, to have watched a character become engulfed so fully in their domestic role as a mother and wife, even despite the success of her career as a novelist. It is this character shift that held my interest throughout this book, an at times disappointing but also sympathetic feeling of understanding, knowing that all of us grow up and lose bits of ourselves as we take on other roles in life.

That being said, I did think the storyline didn't manage to follow any real path until the ... Read More

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- Can Cannie keep her Perfect Life?
Can the heroine of Good in Bed, Cannie Shapiro, screw up her happily ever after life, where she is married to the handsome doctor Peter Krushelevansky and is the mother of a her daughter Joy? Especially since Joy is now a teenager and Shapiro's perfect husband wants to expand their perfect family?

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- Disappointing
I loved, loved, LOVED Good In Bed and Weiner's other books and I was so excited when there was finally a sequel. Unfortunately it's a disappointment. It's hard to believe that this is the same characters, the book falls flat, and the ending is just dreadful and left me depressed. Not what I expected at all.

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- Disappointed
I conider myself a fan of Jennifer Weiner, having read almost all her previous books. Although I had a hard time putting Certain Girls down it disappointed me.

First there are the way too many obligatory gay characters which seem to be a staple of chick lit and/or womens' books. It's like the author is screaming "hey, look at me, I'm a good liberal". Blech. It's so predictible.

Next is the ending, which I won't spoil. The main thing I can ascertain from Ms. Weiner's books is that she has a serious problem with men. Male characters are either evil, gay, or not entirely fleshed out. Or they meet an untimely ending.

Her female charaters are for the most part interesting and endearing. I just wish that she would be able to create a fully functioning, ... Read More

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