I liked Goodnight Nobody. It's an easy, fun read. 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 Weiner's work seem formulaic.1. Each of the books features a protagonist who is very conscious of her own non-stick figure body shape.GIB: CannieIHS: RoseGN: Kate2. Each protagonist has a friend/cohort who is the o...

When I saw this in the bargain bin at Barnes & Noble - I thought I struck gold! I had really liked 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 protagonist was annoying (i.e. mother dealing with a crush she had years ago and now is hemming and hawing about the what-could-have-been) all the while her husband makes attempts (small though they may be) to r...

I have to admit - I was disappointed by this book. I felt the heroine, whose name I have already forgotten, was not, in fact, someone I would want championing for me if I was murdered! Why does this woman have to be such a bumbling doofus? Just because she is a stay-at-home mom? The scene at the memorial service was just one example of her embarassment. She's telling everyone she is going to speak at the service, and then she is surprised when she is pushed to speak! I do like how the author inc...

I have to say that I pretty much hated this book. I only gave it that extra star because the actual writing is pretty good. She spins a good tale, and pretty much the only person you like in the book is Janie, her best friend. Kate, the main character, is pretty much one of the most selfish people I have ever read as a main character. You just feel sorry for her husband, whom she doesn't really love, but thought was suitable to marry because he was "nice", and you really feel sorry for her kids....

I've read this book multiple times (I've lost count) and I just adore it. I was craving the familiar and after giving this book as a recommendation to folks looking for a mystery without darkness/violence I suddenly felt the need to read it. I snagged the audiobook from my library and I think it made me love it even more.Kate Klein is a mom of three who is living in the picture perfect suburban town of Upchurch, Connecticut and she's struggling - to fit in with the mom crowd, to be a full time m...

It took me 3 months to finish this book. I liked the first third of the book. The second third lost me. I did like the fish out of water angle, but the contrast was too extreme. She was portrayed a a bumbling idiot. When she kept using the Hello Kitty notebook throughout her entire "investigation" I wanted to scream and ended up feeling very disconnected from her. There were so many interviews and suspects I got lost. While the last third of the book was paced more quickly and a little intriguin...

This is not the type of book I normally read. It's not the right genre, style or character. So I was surprised by how much I actually enjoyed it.Kate Klein is an accidental mother of three. She fell in "like" with her husband after a bad rebound, married him because it was sensible to do so, accidently fell pregnant and had a baby girl, then accidently fell pregnant with twin boys some two months later. Suddenly, she's gone from being a free-spirited (if slightly self-conscious) fashion and tabl...

I am a little confused as to why Weiner, one of the hottest writers today, felt it necessary to try her hand at a mystery. After the raucous success of "In Her Shoes," "Good In Bed," and "Little Earthquakes," I expected her to keep moving on the same vein -- and I was excited about it. But this book doesn't make the grade set by her previous three best-sellers. The mystery is clunky, the characters annoying, and the plot disjointed. This was a strange attempt at a new genre. Let's hope Weiner re...

DNF @ 20%. I’ve enjoyed others of Weiner’s- just wasn’t feeling this one. I found myself wandering away from it and thinking about other things. Too much fluff and not enough substance for me.

This book was a light hearted murder mystery. Kate Klein lives in a ritzy Connecticut community with her three young children and workaholic husband. Kate never feels like she fits in with the other Moms. One day Kate goes to visit Kitty Cavanagh and finds her murdered on the kitchen floor.From this point on Kate devotes her time to finding out who killed Kitty Cavanagh, and in doing so, unearths a lot of dirty laundry in her upscale community. Overall, an enjoyable story but the last couple of

I've read other Jennifer Weiner books and really enjoyed them, but this was terrible. I couldn't stand the protagonist--she was an awkward, bumbling fool with a massive inferiority complex and judgment about everyone she met and barely knew. She kept apologizing to her neglectful, borderline emotionally abusive husband, and we're supposed to hate Evan, her crush, because they drunkenly kissed and then he didn't break up with his fiancée. Kate had childish expectations, which we're supposed to em...

I LOVE Jennifer Weiner's Good in Bed and enjoyed In Her Shoes and Little Earthquakes, but Goodnight Nobody just doesn't measure up. Maybe it is just slow to start, but I kept trying and couldn't finish it. In the other books, Weiner's characters aren't perfect and you love them that way, but the main character of GN is downright negative to the point of being extremely annoying. If I met her at the park, I would not befriend her either. (If you have read the book, you know what I mean by this.)

If Kate Klein, the protagonist of GOODNIGHT NOBODY, were real, we'd be best friends. Kate struggles with her life as a stay-at-home mom in suburbia. When she finds her neighbor stabbed to death in her kitchen, Kate launches her own investigation to find the killer. The investigation gives her life purpose again. Author Jennifer Weiner is right-on with the desperation stay-at-home moms feel, as we put our skills aside and our lives on hold to change diapers and clean up spilled Kool-Aid. Kate Kle...

This story is about a desperate housewife who doesn't seem to fit in. After a surprise invite to the meanest of the "in" mom's home, Kate arrives to find her hostess dead on the floor with a knife poking out of her back. It's time to run, methinks.She instead decides to spice up her boring life by investigating the murder. It reads to me like a very dull episode of Desperate Housewives with some flashbacks to the past thrown in for added tedium. I don't know if I'll finish this because, as the b...

The ending was really unsatisfying, though I am glad to say that the book didn't meet my predictions and Kate didn't leave her husband for Evan. Though I might have been rooting for that. Or not. I'm not sure now.The story starts out as pretty predictable chic lit. Overweight, less than fabulous girl ends up with less than fabulous guy. She has a fabulous friend and a fabulous guy who got away/or who she wasn't good enough for. In this case, less than fabulous girl has a famous mother, a house i...

i didn't have a book to take on the bus/train for labor day weekend...a co-worker loaned me this...i was semi-interested b/c the author has another book i've wanted to read...anyhow, _goodnight nobody_ is a bit hackneyed. trite writing about the thin, beautiful, seemingly successful types...and i'm afraid the author didn't make me very empathetic to the more "realistic" narrator...she's supposed to be smart and not thin...looking for more stimulation than she's getting from being a stay-at-home

What can I say? Jennifer Weiner is my hero. She writes these delicious stories with the quirkiest and most loveable characters and they always happen to fall into my lap at just the right time. Her stories and writing are always very similar, but different enough to make each read unique and fun. And praise to her for adding a little mystery to her novels. I thought she did a great job of it, despite everyone elses critiques. That being said, if Kate Klein were a real person, we would be best fr...