Title: Certain Girls
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Genre: Fiction
I kind of have a love/not so much love relationship with Jennifer Weiner's books. I really enjoyed Good in Bed, kind of liked In Her Shoes, pretty much hated Goodnight Nobody. I'm having a hard time though figuring out exactly how much I liked Certain Girls. With two narrators the book lacks a cohesive voice and I think it suffered because of it. Of course that may just be because one of the narrators is exceedingly whiny.
I really hate terms like chick lit or fluffy. They're condescending. We need a better term for books that are, in essence, contemporary fairy tales. Some of the situations and characters in these contemporary fairy tales are too hyper saturated to come off as anything but fiction but they work in the context of the book. Endings are either too happy or too sad or manipulatively bittersweet. But again it works in the context of a contemporary fairy tale. Certain Girls is one of those contemporary fairy tales. I enjoyed parts very much, was quite irritated by parts of it, learned a few things from it and don't at all wish I hadn't spent time reading it. That's pretty good.
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Genre: Fiction
I kind of have a love/not so much love relationship with Jennifer Weiner's books. I really enjoyed Good in Bed, kind of liked In Her Shoes, pretty much hated Goodnight Nobody. I'm having a hard time though figuring out exactly how much I liked Certain Girls. With two narrators the book lacks a cohesive voice and I think it suffered because of it. Of course that may just be because one of the narrators is exceedingly whiny.
I really hate terms like chick lit or fluffy. They're condescending. We need a better term for books that are, in essence, contemporary fairy tales. Some of the situations and characters in these contemporary fairy tales are too hyper saturated to come off as anything but fiction but they work in the context of the book. Endings are either too happy or too sad or manipulatively bittersweet. But again it works in the context of a contemporary fairy tale. Certain Girls is one of those contemporary fairy tales. I enjoyed parts very much, was quite irritated by parts of it, learned a few things from it and don't at all wish I hadn't spent time reading it. That's pretty good.
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