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Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
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Good in Bed (original 2001; edition 2002)

by Jennifer Weiner

Series: Cannie Shapiro (1)

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner brings to life an irresistibly funny and relatable heroine in the novel The Boston Globe called "funny, fanciful, extremely poignant, and rich with insight."
For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body.

But the day she opens up a national women's magazine and sees the words "Loving a Larger Woman" above her ex-boyfriend's byline, Cannie is plunged into misery...and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can become.
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Title:Good in Bed
Authors:Jennifer Weiner
Info:Washington Square Press (2002), Paperback, 400 pages
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Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner (2001)

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I thought I'd like this book because I loved Bridget Jones, but this book is bad. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
liked it ( )
  Kimberlyhi | Apr 15, 2023 |
Well-written and engaging as usual, but with themes that...no.
My favorite part was Nifkin! I wanted to give an entire star for him, but resisted the urge. ( )
  iszevthere | Jun 21, 2022 |
Funny, brilliant characters. A little intense at times, but just wonderfully written, especially as a tale for the zaftig 30-something. ( )
  jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |
I am so glad that I finally got around to reading this book. I have had a copy for well over 10 years so it has been quite the wait. I must say that I really enjoyed it and cannot believe that it took me so long to finally read this author! I liked Cannie right away and could empathize with all the things that she goes through over the course of this story. I found this to be entertaining and funny at times but emotional at others.

Cannie has recently broken up with her boyfriend of 3 years, Bruce, when she learns that she is the subject of his new article. Bruce has written an article about loving a larger woman which becomes rather popular to Cannie’s horror. We get to see how Cannie’s weight has impacted her over the years including her current quest to lose weight in what she refers to as fat class. She starts to have second thoughts about her decision to break up with Bruce but she has a wonderful group of friends around her to support her as she works through everything.

I was somewhat surprised by just how many things happened to Cannie over the course of this story. It really was a bit of a roller coaster. I felt like she grew a lot as a character and I was happy that her support system stuck with her. I really loved the fact that even when the book was dealing with some really tough issues some humor would often pop up keeping everything from feeling too heavy.

I decided to listen to the unabridged audiobook and thought that Laura Hicks did an amazing job with this story. I think that it takes a special narrator to successfully deliver both the humor and the heartache that were a part of this story. I thought that she was able to bring this story to life and I loved the voices that she used for the various characters.

I would recommend this book to others. I found this to be a wonderful story that was rather hard to put down. I hope to check out more of Jennifer Weiner’s work in the future.

I received a digital review copy of this book from Atria Books via NetGalley and borrowed a copy of the audiobook from my local library. ( )
  Carolesrandomlife | Nov 9, 2021 |
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Epigraph
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft
And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.
—Philip Larkin
Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say
—Liz Phair
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For my family
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"Have you seen it?" asked Samantha.
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner brings to life an irresistibly funny and relatable heroine in the novel The Boston Globe called "funny, fanciful, extremely poignant, and rich with insight."
For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body.

But the day she opens up a national women's magazine and sees the words "Loving a Larger Woman" above her ex-boyfriend's byline, Cannie is plunged into misery...and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can become.

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Mi ​lehet annál szörnyűbb, mint amikor a pasink kövérnek tart? Például ha ezt még meg is írja egy népszerű női magazinban…
„Soha nem felejtem el azt a napot, amikor megtudtam, hogy a barátnőm nehezebb, mint én…
Véletlenül megtaláltam a fogyókúrás naplóját, amelyben feljegyezte, mikor mit evett, mit tervez enni ezután, és hogy megissza-e az előírt 2-3 liter folyadékot naponta. Ott volt a neve. Ott volt a fogyókúrás programban kapott azonosító száma. És ott volt a súlya is, amit, mivel úriember vagyok, nem fogok elárulni. Legyen elég annyi, hogy sokkolóan magas szám volt.
Tudtam, hogy C. nagydarab lány. Nagyobb, mint a tévében látott fürdőruhás modellek, vagy a vígjáték- és kórházi sorozatok légiesen karcsú szereplői. Egyértelműen nagyobb volt, mint bármelyik korábbi barátnőm.
A válla olyan széles, mint az enyém, a kezünk is majdnem egyforma méretű, és a mellétől a hasáig, a csípőjétől a combja domborulatáig csupa édes hullám és hívogató melegség volt. De mások társaságában már nem éreztem magam ilyen kellemesen mellette. A 178 centi magas C., akinek a felépítése leginkább egy nehézsúlyú díjbirkózóéra emlékeztetett, nem tudott észrevétlenül beleolvadni a tömegbe.
Nagydarab nőt szeretni bátor tett a mai világban – sőt, talán hiábavaló is. Mert hiába szerettem C.-t, tudtam, olyasvalaki iránt lángolok, aki nem hiszi el magáról, hogy megérdemli a szerelmet.”
Cannie Shapiro nem akar hinni a szemének, amikor meglátja, hogy a barátja, Bruce, akivel épp „szünetet tartanak”, ezt írta róla. Amúgy sincs túl jó passzban, az anyja ugyanis váratlanul bejelenti, hogy leszbikus, az egyik kolléganője állandóan fúrja a munkahelyén, ráadásul valóban van egy kis probléma a súlyával…
Egy igazi nő azonban nem hagyhatja ennyiben a dolgot. Cannie kétségbeesett fogyókúrába kezd, hogy visszaszerezze Bruce-t, és helyreállítsa a saját önbecsülését, ám ezzel olyan eseménysorozatot indít el, amely örökre megváltoztatja az életét…
Jennifer Weiner, a nagysikerű Egy cipőben és Kismamák pácban szerzőjének első és egyik legsikeresebb műve, amellyel az egész világon berobbant az irodalmi köztudatba. Egy szórakoztató, intelligens, megható és humoros szingliregény azoknak, akik a kliséknél többre vágynak.
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