Booksbooksbooks!

Well, I recently picked up a book at the store.. it was a total random buy - I actually bought it at the grocery store which is very unlike me. Normally when I purchase books I put more thought into it than just seeing it, reading the synopsis & bam PURCHASE.. but this one spoke to me. It's called 'Big Girl' It's a Danielle Steel:

A chubby little girl with ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her father’s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City.

Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her younger sister, Grace. Though they couldn’t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. So when Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sister’s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, a deeply upsetting betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point.

Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself.

I'm almost finished with this book & have LOVED it thus far. Now today, I was at a yard sale & again browsing through books (if you haven't guessed by now.. I am an AVID reader :)!) and I came across one called 'Good in Bed' I know what your thinking, cuz I was thinking it too why do you think I picked it up! ;) LOL Here's the story :

For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body.

But the day she opens up a national women's magazine and sees the words "Loving a Larger Woman" above her ex-boyfriend's byline, Cannie is plunged into misery...and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can become.

Now, I love to read.. & I have been on this journey for almost a year now.. how come it never occured to me that there may actually be NOVELS, I would greatly ENJOY about a women of larger sizes and the different things they face with it ?!?! I feel a little slow on the uptake here.. Anyways, Do any of you have any really good books you've read that you've been able to relate to or relate to your journey in some way? I would love for some suggestions to look into!

~erica♥