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Certain Girls: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  143 reviews
Sales Rank: 1059
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: All proceeds benefit the Hillsboro, OR Public Library. Dust jacket has light shelfwear. Clean inside and out. Binding tight.
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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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 Sequel well-worth the wait August 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Certain Girls....could've been better August 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Certain Girls August 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Watch TV instead August 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
Interesting View of a Family August 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Think Jennifer Weiner's books are usually very entertaining, this one is too, perhaps more serious than her others. The teenager in this book is certainly an "eye opener" for young moms. As a mom of three teenagers, Weiner is right on the money - albeit this is a very spoiled one.
This is a quick read, makes you chuckle and also value your own children and personal situation.
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