Certain Girls are Good in Bed

I'll admit that when it comes to reading, it isn't one of my favorite pastimes. And when it comes to finding a book to read, it's totally based on the cover! Haha. I'm horrible. But so far the cover thing has only turned out bad once.

A few times when I have ran to Kroger on my lunch break to get a frozen dinner, I have passed by the book isle. That is where I picked up "Good in Bed". I read the back of it quickly and thought I would give it a try. I bought it and began to read it.... and read it... and read it. I could barely put the thing down. I loved it. So when I finished "Good in Bed" I found out there was a continuation called "Certain Girls." So I HAD to have it. I bought it and just finished it as well.

Below you will find the over view for the books, courtesy of Barnes and Noble. =]

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.

Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed. 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 and has settled into a life that's wonderfully predictable.

As preparations for her daughter 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 Cannie's husband surprises her by saying he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to reconsider their history, their future, and what it means to be truly happy.