Jennifer Weiner’s Good in Bed both comments on real life struggles of the main character, Cannie, while ultimately providing a pleasant escape to readers. The novel is not “escapist” as a whole, as Cannie grapples with her weight and heavier life issues, but retains a…

Bruce’s article, which provides a personal account of his experience “loving a larger woman” presents a thoughtful appreciation of bigger women, but does so in a discourteous manner. It is because of this that I believe both Lily and Cannie are right. Lily, who relates to…

We began the class by talking about John’s post. In his blog post he discussed whether the main character in Good in Bed is likeable or not. He believes she is likable because she is different to how women are depicted today. She goes against…

“I sat, eased a few M&M’s into my mouth, and flipped to page 132, which turned out to be ‘Good in Bed,’ Moxie’s regular male-written feature designed to help the average reader understand what her boyfriend was up to… or wasn’t up to, as the…

“I thought sometimes that he liked to imagine himself as one of the lead characters in an early Springsteen song – some furious, passionate nineteen year old romantic, raging against the world at large and his father in particular, looking for one girl to save…

I feel that Cannie from Good in Bed is an extremely likable character because she is different from how society today depicts woman in how they should look and act. When she finds out about the article that her ex-boyfriend wrote about him being once…

We started off class with Professor Bergren giving us a little grammar lesson on run on sentences. The lessons consisted of using words such as however, and how we should use them carefully–usually when however is used in the middle of a sentence it is…

This week we are focusing on close- reading of specific passages in Lady Audley’s secret for each of the main characters, that our groups focused on. We began by talking about a passage focusing on Phoebe Marks, noticing the imagery was drab and boring. As…

“The lowing of a cow in the quiet meadows, the splash of a trout in the fish-pond, the last notes of a tired bird, the creaking of waggon-wheels upon the distant road, every now and then breaking the evening silence, only made the stillness of…

‘The widower only sighed and puffed his cigar fiercely out of the open window. Perhaps he was thinking of that far-away time—little better than five years ago, in fact; but such an age gone by to him—when he first met the woman for whom he…