"Good in Bed"-Jennifer Weiner

Book Title: Good in Bed
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Version: Paperback
ISBN: 9780743418171
Voice: First Person
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: April 2, 2002
First Published: January 1, 2001
Number of Pages: 376
Genre: Fiction

SYNOPSIS: Candace "Cannie" Shapiro has pretty much everything she wanted in life. Plus a few extras: a mom freshly out of the closet, an adorable rat terriar Nifkin, a job as the entertainment expert at The Philedelphia Examiner, and a few extra unwanted pounds. To top it all off Cannie has just read an article in a magazine,  entitled "Loving A Larger Woman" by her almost ex-boyfriend Bruce. Crushed and feeling betrayed Cannie confronts Bruce who tells her he thinks that they should go their seperate ways. Devastated Cannie does her best to try and forget about Bruce, this becomes especially difficult when she learns that Bruce's father has died. Deciding that this might be her chance to show Bruce how great a girlfriend she can be Cannie goes to the funeral and helps out at the wake afterward. While comforting Bruce Cannie finds herself in bed with him. Happy and hopeful that this might be the turning point they need, Cannie goes into the next day feeling like she is on top of the world. However this quickly changes when she gets a call from Bruce explaining that he doesn't think that they should see each other anymore because he has a new girlfriend.

Feeling as if the air was let out of her world Cannie eagerly accepts an assignment that takes her to New York to interview celebrity Maxi Rider. Becoming friends with Maxi Cannie decides to start turning her life around, step one giving Maxi the screenplay she has been working on. Returning home Cannie decides that she has had enough of feeling overweight and ashamed so she tries to join a new weight loss program run by the handsome Dr. K. When he tells her that she is not eligible to participate in the program because she is pregnant Cannie is shocked.

What follows is an adventure that Cannie never expected, of course it has it's ups, downs and more surprises than a fun house but it's an adventure that Cannie enjoys. She finds that although life can sometimes throw a few curve balls a lot of the time it's exactly what is needed to begin a whole new chapter.

REVIEW: I thourghly enjoyed this book. I just liked it! I enjoyed the the way that Jennifer Weiner made the characters so real, Cannie isn't all that glamorous she's just this woman. And I find that pretty awesome. All the characters have something that makes them more human in a way, it makes reading about them so interesting. It's like spying on a world that is normally off limits.

The writing, for a debut, is excellent. It's fresh and simple without being boring or amateurish. Jennifer Weiner's writing is fun and well thought out. The way she portrays Cannie is intricate and three dimensional, as the reader I really felt that I was following along with what Cannie was going through. Jennifer Weiner makes Cannie relateable and that is a brilliant thing for a debut.

I highly recommend this book!! I think that it's a fun read full of love and new adventures. There is just something about the story that makes this a quick read that you will want to pick up again and again. It's a great book. So go for it!