Oh dear what was I thinking? I read Good in Bed years ago and found it falling far from my taste in books.I need to get something off my chest about this author. It may come off bad, but I just don't relate to overweight characters in books--and that is a theme that I believe is present in all of her books. In Little Earthquakes I probably liked the character (of course her name had to be becky) less because she was described as obese. Does that make me a horrible person?
But, that was not anywhere near the forefront of why I wouldn't recommend this book to most people. First off it's about four women about my age, but they all meet in a yoga pregnancy class... yeah, the book is about babies, husbands, affairs, balancing work and family--not exactly up my ally. It was moderately entertaining with some nice friendshipy type scenes, but Weiner's writing is so mediocre. Actually I would say it's 75% mediocre and 25% bad.
I have purposely been avoiding Weiner since 2002 when I read her first novel, but I fell prey to this sitting on my mom's bookshelf in the guest room. I knew what I was getting myself into, but sometimes you just gotta read the fluff.
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