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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. Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-08-31
Was not disappointed...
After reading many of these reviews, I was a bit hesitant about reading this book. I have read and loved all of Jennifer Weiner's books and I was worried that I would be disappointed. Well, I worried for no reason. I read Certain Girls in one day (and that is while dealing with three kids of my own...including one 14 year old girl). I am very different from Cannie and my daughter is different from Joy, but I could relate to the struggle of both mother and daughter that made up the focus of this book.
IMO, Jennifer Weiner did it again! And I look forward to another book from her. Rating:
Date: 2008-08-27
Sequel well-worth the wait
This long-awaited and much anticipated sequel to Good In Bed is everything I could have hoped for. Picking up thirteen years later, Cannie Schapiro is just as funny and crazy - but she's also more mature, more settled, and mother to a teenage girl. Certain Girls is a story told by both Cannie and her daughter Joy, and it's an amazingly good book from Weiner about both being a parent and being an adolescent that is anything but sugar-coated. When you start this book, you'd better not have anything planned for the rest of your day, because you will not be able to stop reading it. Rating: 
Date: 2008-08-26
Certain Girls....could've been better
I just finished Good in Bed last week and decided to go ahead and get this novel while "Cannie" was still fresh in my head. Good in Bed ended so happily and I couldn't wait to crack open "Certain Girls".
This book was not what I expected. Yes, I felt sure that Cannie and Peter had gotten married and that Joy had turned out just fine, but I didn't expect Joy to be such a brat. Although I guess at 13, a lot of kids don't like what their parents have to say.
I had trouble following the book somewhat due to the switching of the first person between chapters. One chapter, the first person is Cannie and the next chapter its Joy. It would take a minute of reading to realize the first person had changed. It just seemed like this book was about a bunch of rich kids getting everything they ever wanted, but then somehow trying to show that Cannie was teaching Joy to be better than that.
I think the ending couldn't been better....possibly with Cannie writing another book and showing how she redeemed herself as a writer. I just thought the ending left a lot of questions, but then again, I suppose Cannie could come back again later? However, it did show that Joy realized all the good things in life and that it wasn't about how big your party was. In fact she made her party not about what she wanted, but about what Cannie wanted, since she didn't get it when she turned 13. Joy turned around from being that brat that stole credit cards and ran off to LA to a beautiful young lady that helped her mother and will continue to help her mother care for Charlie.
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Date: 2008-08-20
Certain Girls
I, like so many others loved Good in Bed. I could not beleive the difference in these two books. I could not stand Canny she was the most overbearing, smothering neurotic mother and wife. She complained and whined about her life, body and family. She never seemed happy even though she ended up with such a wonderful husband, who put up with way more than I ever would in a spouse. Joy was anything but joyous, she was spoiled rude and self centered yet Canny continued to ignore her behavior and guess at what might be wrong. I did not like either character and was even less interested in the bat mitzvah drama that went on far to long. The end of the book was so depressing and unnecessary. I read for pleasure and to take my mind off of the everyday drama's and tragedies that we all deal with, I don't need to feel that way in my spare moments of reading escape. I hate when I feel depressed after I finish a book rather than renewed and happy. So very disappointed in this author. Rating:
Date: 2008-08-20
Watch TV instead
Please, people who think this is a good book -- read The Maytrees, or Olive Kitteridge -- or watch TV -- this summer instead of wasting your time on Certain Girls |
