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Goodnight Nobody is bestselling author Jennifer Weiner's attempt at writing a mystery, with a healthy dose of the author's chick lit sensibilities thrown in for good measure. While this Desperate Housewives meets Sex in the City murder mystery won't make readers shake in their Manolo Blahniks, it will provide the obligatory humor and compassion to which fans of Weiner's Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, and Little Earthquakes have grown accustomed. Kate Klein is a feisty, charmingly insecure Connecticut housewife who trades in a life of late-night karaoke sing-a-longs and West Village brunches with her best friend Janie for a world of mini-vans and Mommy and Me pilates classes. Life in Upchurch, Connecticut, heats up when Kate discovers picture-perfect wife and mother Kitty Cavanaugh dead on the pickled maple hardwood floor of her recently remodeled kitchen. A former chronicler of celebrity gossip, Kate takes it upon herself to solve the mystery of Kitty's murder and the disappearance of Lexi Hagen-Holdt, another Upchurch supermom. Along the way, the mysteries and disappointments in Kate's personal life begin to unravel, including her marriage to the kind-yet-uptight Ben, and her unresolved crush on Evan McKenna, a former neighbor with whom a one-night tryst ended in disaster. Thrown in for comic relief, and perhaps to show the depth of Weiner's talents as a writer, are Kate's twin boys and adorably sophisticated 5-year old daughter Sophie ("Sophie was sitting on the toilet, applying lipstick and waiting her turn..."). Goodnight Nobody is chock full of plot twists and turns which can be overwhelming and superfluous. However, Weiner's charm and grace are usually enough to rescue readers from these moments of confusion, and reaffirm our commitment to this endearing contemporary voice. --Gisele Toueg

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Having said that, however, I am going to critique Jennifer Weiner's works in general. I have read three of them: Good in Bed, In Her Shoes and Goodnight Nobody. There are similarities between the three of them that are starting to make We...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 15 19:17:28 -0700 2007 Tue May 15 19:26:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 2 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Sep 07 16:15:17 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 08:09:31 -0700 2007 Good in Bed and In Her Shoes and was excited to pick up another book by Jennifer Weiner. Unfortunately, this fell flat. It was stale and I wasn't involved with the characters at all. Her protago...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 23 18:13:38 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 07 08:50:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Sep 07 06:26:43 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 06:34:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Aug 30 13:20:23 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 13:22:10 -0700 2007 Kate Klein’s life is not what she thought it would be. Trapped in suburbia with three preschoolers, her days drone endlessly by in a never-ending parade of carpools, play dates, snooty super moms, and household chores.
Kitty Cavanaugh is the undisputed queen of the Upchurch mommies. On ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Dec 01 10:14:48 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 10:14:54 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon May 25 08:17:55 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 17:07:59 -0700 2009
Jennifer Weiner's Goodnight Nobody is her latest novel and the author finds herself straying from her lighter more romantic stories to one of mystery. Kate Klein is the heroine, stuck in boring Connecticut, in...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 09:48:11 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 09:58:43 -0700 2009
Surprisingly, I probably liked this book the best out of any of Jennifer Weiner's books. I say surprisingly, because it is pro...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 23 17:39:26 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 17:46:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 23:59:49 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 00:11:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 16:42:20 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 18:44:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 19:09:25 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 15:22:11 -0800 2009
Initially this suburban tale start...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 19:45:21 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 19:50:38 -0700 2009 1
I felt Kate's struggles to move bey...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 25 13:05:23 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 13:29:51 -0800 2008 Good in Bed, and this one had an interesting premise. Kate is a mother of three under the age of 4 (horrors!) and has been uprooted by her overprotective husband and plunked into perfect suburban Connecticut. All the Mommies are put together, u...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 10:41:50 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 11:10:43 -0700 2009
The main character, Kate Klein, becomes entangled in a local murder case. When Kate discovers the stabbed body of neighbor K...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 10:00:35 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 05:14:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:40 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:40 -0800 2009 Although Weiner's foray into the murder mystery often falls flat into a formulaic and improbable plotline, her characters and wit are charming enough to elicit our forgiveness. While the author bristles at the consignment of her fourth novel into the "chick-lit" genre, it is not a profound...

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