To be honest, it's because of the debut of the Hulu series Shrill. I've been thinking about Good in Bed a lot lately, and not just because of the anniversary. I'm pretty sure my jaw dropped multiple times throughout my first reading of Weiner's novel. It's fun, over-the-top stuff for sure, but the novel is mostly about Cannie coming to terms with her weight, facing her deep-rooted self-esteem issues, and learning to love herself as she is. She sells a screenplay and falls deeply in love with her doctor. Good in Bed is a modern day fairytale rom-com that tells the story of Cannie Shapiro, a size 16 journalist from Philadelphia whose ex-boyfriend publishes a magazine article about their relationship called Loving a Larger Woman, which sends her whole world into chaos. And given that I ended up reading the novel two years after its release, when I was a senior in high school - or, you know, when I was 18 - now that the novel is the same age I was when I first dove into its pages, I decided it was time to revisit a book that had so much impact on me as a teen. For the uninitiated, this month marks 18 years since Jennifer Weiner's New York Times best-seller Good in Bed was published.
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