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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
Good in Bed is an excellent book as far as chick lit goes. I laughed, found Cannie to be a very sympathetic character, and loved her rat terrier, Nifkin. I was excited to learn that Certain Girls would begin 13 years after the end of Good in Bed.
Although Certain Girls wasn't quite of the same caliber as Good in Bed, it's definitely worth reading. Joy, Cannie's daughter, finds the risque novel her mother wrote years ago and believes it's based on her mother's real life. Somehow over the years, Cannie has become extremely straight-laced and closed off to her daughter's ideas for a beautiful bat mitzvah dress. Their conflicts and mother-daughter relationship are very true to life. I enjoyed Certain Girls, although I have to say it lost some of the charm of Good in Bed.
Although Certain Girls wasn't quite of the same caliber as Good in Bed, it's definitely worth reading. Joy, Cannie's daughter, finds the risque novel her mother wrote years ago and believes it's based on her mother's real life. Somehow over the years, Cannie has become extremely straight-laced and closed off to her daughter's ideas for a beautiful bat mitzvah dress. Their conflicts and mother-daughter relationship are very true to life. I enjoyed Certain Girls, although I have to say it lost some of the charm of Good in Bed.
Man, did she capture the struggle between mother and daughter - especially ate age 13! There were parts of the book that were palpably painful. My heart hurt for both of them. The heart wrenching ending nearly killed me too!
I've made Matt promise to have me re-read this when our kids are that age.
I've made Matt promise to have me re-read this when our kids are that age.
So I have to admit that I didn't love this book as much as Good in Bed, I think it was the ending that did me in. But while I didn't LIKE the ending, I accepted it since it was well written. Reading Good in Bed first wouldn't be necessary, but if you have the time I would recommend it as they gloss over some of the character development and refer to events that happened in that book.
Overall another hit by Jennifer Weiner!
Overall another hit by Jennifer Weiner!
Nice sequel to Good in Bed. Impressed by Weiner's ability to write both sides of the mother and teenage daughter conflict sympathetically.
I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
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Not too shabby for a summer read. But the ending -- ugh!
I have to say that it took me a while to really get into this book. I wasn't feeling particularly generous with either the daughter or mother characters. Perhaps it was my mood, but it wasn't until about 2/3 of the way through that I started to see them as more rounded-out characters rather than very one-dimensional- the petty, snotty daughter and the highly overprotective mom. Anyway, something shifted for me, and I started to feel more for them, and things were going along smoothly, feeling a positive shift to the story when BOOM!! The ending kicked me in the gut, and all the emotions came out. Wow, I didn't see that coming. I would have very much preferred a different ending than the one Weiner wrote, but overall, I guess I'd have to say that I enjoyed the book.
Decent, but I hate when things happen in books that seem totally unnecessary.
Loved it, loved it, loved it. Great story. Very unexpected ending. This was definitely one of her better books.