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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9781416528630
ISBN number: 1416528636
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 608
Printing Date: September 26, 2006
Publishing house: Pocket Star
Sale Popularity Level: 13184
Studio: Pocket Star
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Jennifer Weiner's rich, witty, true-to-life New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journey of new motherhood.
Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderful husband and baby girl, a restaurant that's received citywide acclaim -- and the mother-in-law from hell. Kelly is an event planner who's struggling to balance work and motherhood while dealing with an unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day. And Ayinde's basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at her most vulnerable moment, putting their new family even more in the public eye. Then there's Lia, a Philadelphia native who has left her Hollywood career behind, along with her husband and a tragic secret, to start her life all over again.
From prenatal yoga to postbirth sex, Little Earthquakes is a frank, funny, fiercely perceptive take on the comedies and tragedies of love and marriage.
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Jennifer Weiner, whose novels Good in Bed and In Her Shoes earned her a place among women's book club aficionados everywhere, proves she still has the touch with Little Earthquakes, a tale of love, heartbreak, redemption, and friendship. Weiner's novel centers around four new mothers, all of whom must learn to adjust their lives and their marriages to deal with the challenges of raising children.
Ayinde is a beautiful, biracial newscaster who moves to Philadelphia after her husband, a star player for the NBA, is traded to the 76ers. She meets Becky, an overweight chef who plays the 'pregnant or just fat' game every time she passes a mirror, and Kelly, an overachieving event planner who has her whole life mapped out down to the most minute details, after going into labor at a prenatal yoga class. The three become fast friends, and come to rely on each other for everything from burping techniques to intense emotional support. The group grows to include Lia, a semi-famous Hollywood starlet who leaves her husband and returns to Philly after a sudden tragedy.
While Little Earthquakes may leave little to the imagination, and some of the characters are laughably stereotypical (the Mama's boy Jewish doctor and the cheating ball player, to name a few), it is Weiner's gift for creating compelling characters with whom her readers can identify that make her such a successful storyteller. --Gisele Toueg
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This is the third book I read by jennifer Weiner, and like the previous two, I really liked it. This amazes me every time, because her stories, written by someone else, would be just another chick lit book, a light "beach read" - in fact this is what you expect when you read the synopsis on the back cover of the paperback.
Instead she manages to turn a somewhat drab story line into an interesting view into someone else's life: someone else who inevitably turns out to be interesting though not incredibly special, and always relatable. You never resent that her characters are so real, that they aren't more exotic: because you get sucked into how real it all sounds, how possible it all is. And at that point, the book has long stopped being just another chick flick and has turned into something that is so close to real life to be biographic, but it's never boring, never showy (like many biographic tales are).
Jennifer Weiner is not just a great writer and a great story teller, but she's obviously a deeply empathic person too: for how else could she capture the voices of her characters so well, without ever sounding sappy or trite?
Thank you Ms. Weiner, for showing us once again that a great writer doesn't have to write in big words and boring philosophical abstracts! And for showing that "chick lit" can be well written and intelligent.
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This was the very very first book I had ever read by Jennifer Weiner. And I'm glad I took the time out to read her work. This book was so entertaining. It was a page turner, funny and had very believable characters. I am a new fan of her work. And I can't wait to read another one of her novels.
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This is a perfect book to read by the pool, before bed, at the beach, or anywhere. Jennifer Weiner is a fabulous author!
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I loved this story. I enjoyed sharing these characters' very first experiences with a newborn, from the joys and wonder of those very first months to the difficulties of sleep deprivation and the strains it puts on a marriage. My daughter is 14 and this story brought me back to her early days - both the good memories and the bad. But most of all, because the tale is so honestly told, it helped me relive the miracle of my daughter's birth all over again. What a great story teller Jennifer Weiner is!
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Little Earthquakes really hooks you in within the very first few chapters, and being around sisters who just had babies, this book was pretty realistic, in terms of babies and sometimes husbands! a little frustrating at times because some of the characters were unbearable (Mimi!), but otherwise it is a great story of happenstance, and the story moved along well.
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