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Jennifer Weiner
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Inspiration is everywhere – my real life, my friends’ lives, family stories, things I overhear in the playground…it’s all fair game.
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Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)
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In Her Shoes
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2002
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Little Earthquakes
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Goodnight Nobody
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Best Friends Forever
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2009
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Certain Girls (Cannie Shapiro #2)
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2008
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Fly Away Home
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2010
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Then Came You
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All Fall Down
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Who Do You Love
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Great American Novelist Jonathan Franzen – the best writer of our time, y’all -- did a Q and A with a Butler University MFA candidate – perhaps you’ve seen it? – where he dismisses my quest for respect and reviews for genre women’s fiction by saying, that I “rub him the wrong way,” that I’m “freeloading on the legitimate problem of gender bias,” and I’m an “unfortunate” person to be a spokesper...
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A few things. Beth from "Little Women" was a major inspiration for my Bethie -- a good girl who doesn't die, but who, instead, suffers through what the world can do to good girls. And this wasn't foremost on my mind while I was writing, but Beth i...
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| I know it's a total cliché to read a book and say you want to be friends with the author, but I want to be friends with Tina Fey (and I really think it could happen!) The tale of a suburban girl finding her voice and making her way in the still ...more | |
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| Fat people didn't ask to be fat. My personal theory is that we're just somehow hungrier than everyone else; that we can no more let a bucket of fried chicken go uneaten than an alcoholic can leave wine in the bottle. Bruni's description of his war ...more | |
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| You have to be careful about what you read when you're writing, or you can end up in total despair, thinking, "This is what I wanted to say, only she got there first and said it better." But here's the thing -- there can never be too many stories ...more | |
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| Isadora Wing. Bright, blond, brash, brilliant, a frustrated poet in a sexually unfulfilling marriage who goes to Vienna, meets a man, climbs in his car and tries to figure out where she's going and where she's been, Isadora gave birth to a million ...more | |
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| Again, I've read it all, but this book had one of the most relatable narrators I can remember. Jewish, smart and ambitious, unhappy family, big, big love...and a happy ending that unravels, and has to be won all over again. A great big happy feast of ...more | |
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| Really, I could put any book by JK here -- I have read her entire oeuvre -- but Scruples was the book that stole my heart. An overweight, awkward, ostracized ugly duckling who sheds her weight, sheds her billionaire husband, finds her power and wants ...more | |
“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.”
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“I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”
― Good in Bed
― Good in Bed
“Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”
― Fly Away Home
― Fly Away Home
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Thrilled to be your friend - you're one of my favorite authors!
Jennifer,Thank you for accepting my request. You are an inspiration, and I truly enjoy reading your work. Here's to looking forward to your next published book!
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Virginia Frazier
Hi! Thank you for accepting my friend request. I love your books! :)
Hey Jennifer...Thanks for accepting my friend request.
Hi Jennifer!Thank you so much for adding me! I hope you're having a great week!
Gigi
Hello Jennifer, it is a pleasure to meet you.
I just wanted to say that I'm really excited for Fly Away Home in July!!!! I hope you come to St. Louis sometime in the future.
Just finished Best Friends Forever. I really enjoyed it. With your books there is no waiting to get into it you are just hooked from the begining.
Thank you for the add! :-) I have only read a few of your books so far, but have loved each of them! You have quickly become one of my favorite authors!
Just thought that I would drop you a line. I hope you read here. Certain Girls was a great book and I don't know how you are feeling about sequals, but Cannie is such a relatable character and I hope to hear about her again.
Your books are wonderful, Jennifer! I'm so pleased to find you on this site! I hope you continue to update your reading list because I'm very interested in what else you're reading. You know -- between now and your next publishment : )
Thanks for the add! Love your books, your style, your humor and wit, and I realize I sound like a stalking schmuck so I'll stop. Love your stuff though. : ) Cheers!
Thanks for adding me Jennifer. I love your books! I read Good In Bed in 2 days and then immediately started reading Certain Girls. I loved both of them. I have all of your books and I think you are a great author!
Hi Jennifer. Thanks for adding me, so nice of you. I love your books, the wit and humor. I tend to gravitate towards serious stuff in my writing, but I love diving into yours! All the best, Amjedwww.amjedqamar.com
Hey, thanks for the add. I loved GOOD IN BED! :)
Hi Jennifer, I've added Good in Bed and many of your other books to my to-read list.
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