I read Good In Bed on a recommendation from my mom, though I must say I was a little hesitant to approach it due to the often cruel and hurtful comments i've had aimed my way by bigger women due to the fact that I'm built like a rail and always have been. I expected a lot of skinny-bashing, basically.

But what I was surprised to find was how much I really identified with Cannie, if from the reverse side. I too had spent years obsessing about my size, searching the internet for ways to gain weight (there's a lot less available for that purpose, unless you want to be a bodybuilder!) and enduring some of the rudest comments from strangers that almost literally knocked me down, again and again.

Oddly enough, it was the experience of having my daughter that turned everything around, just like it did for Cannie, albeit in a different way. I gained 40 lbs with my pregnancy and delivered a 9 lb healthy baby girl at home, without medication. To my dismay, however, after 2 weeks I had dropped 30 of the pounds i had gained, and the rest melted off quickly with breastfeeding. I was back to a size zero, but now with huge breasts, and the other mothers in my mommy group snubbed me. I wasn't "part of the club" because I wasnt trying to lose the weight. i stopped going to the group. You know what? I'm over it. My body is what it is and it does what I need it to do.

I cried so many times reading Good In Bed, but especially the last section of the book, as Cannie experiences those overwhelming pains and joys of motherhood that finally make her realize how insignificant all this body image stuff really is.

I thank you for writing a genuine book that doesn't resort to simply painting thin women as the enemy (at least not seriously) and giving me some insight into the other side of the coin. Great job!