Book Review: Certain Girls

First up in my book review week is a light beach read.

Book Review for: Certain Girls
By: Jennifer Weiner

Certain Girls is a sequel to Good In Bed, but can be read as a stand alone novel. Cannie is a novelist who pretends she is nothing more than a stay-at-home mom and a perfect housewife. In reality, she is the best-selling author of a tell-all memoir (okay, fictional memoir based on her evil ex who got her pregnant and left) that shook up the world years ago. Now she hides behind a pen name writing for a science fiction series and pretends her best-selling book never happened. Except her just-hit-puberty daughter–which she has devotedly and painstakingly sheltered all her life–has just found the book… and read it. And she’s got questions. Lots of questions. About her conception. About her father. About her mother’s past. And most of all–was she even wanted?

In the meantime, Cannie’s husband is urging her to consider expanding their family through the use of a surrogate and her editor is pushing her to peek out from behind the shelter of the pen name and be ‘Cannie, best-selling author of the fictional expose’ once again.

What’s a gal to do?

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Summer’s Here! Let’s Read!

That’s right. Summer’s here. Holidays. Sunblock. Girly drinks. Floppy hats. Bathing suits. Shorts. Flip flops. And black vinyl seats that sear your buttocks.

That’s right. We made it to summer once again.

It’s time to make a dent in those To Be Read (TBR) piles you’ve got lying around your house. If you don’t have a TBR pile, let me help you out. This week–I know it is Thursday already, but it’s summer and the days of the week don’t really matter anymore–I’ll be posting reviews on my blog for a few books I’ve recently read. So keep checking back, I’ve read some good ones!

Any summer must-reads you want to share with others? Pop the title (and author if you know it) in the comment section and help us grow our TBR piles.