good in bed by jennifer weiner

genre: chick lit

recap: {back cover} 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.

review: i read this once before, a long time ago. high school or college. i didn't really remember what happened, but i remembered liking it. reading it now, 13 years after it was published and probably 10 years after reading it the first time, i still liked it but i have to say i was a little offended at the way cannie was reacting to her mother being gay. maybe times just really have changed in 10 years, or maybe i'm just very open-minded, but i thought she was really harsh. yes, she accepted tanya at the end, but still very harsh. and embarrassed? not really the right reaction. or maybe it WAS the right reaction then, but definitely not now. also, there is a sequel to the book which i read a year or two ago but i didn't realize it was the sequel. now i'm going to read it again, even though i remember the very sad ending. maybe it'll change my perspective on that book a little knowing that cannie has a back story.