Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Chick Lit
May 19, 2012 | Saturday | 27 Comments
I'm going to do two things I rarely do. One, I'm going to write a review for a book a few hours after I finished it. Two, I'm going to post a review for a book that has been appearing in digital and paper format slowly - and I hope it is available at your preferred retailer when this review goes live. I also hope this review inspires a few libraries to add this author to their collection, as I really liked this book. This book was originally published in Sweden (and thus, in Swedish) in 2005 under the name…
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November 02, 2011 | Wednesday | 32 Comments
Here’s a strange question for you. Does a contemporary romance set in urban parts of England signal Chick Lit to you as a US (or outside-the-US) reader? One of the conversations I was having this past weekend in Seattle at the Emerald City Writer’s Conference centered on setting and locations, and how some locations signal certain genres. The question about single women finding romance in urban parts of England instantly meaning Chick Lit for US readers made me wonder - I didn’t *think* it was true but outside of Harlequin category romances, I couldn’t think of any single title romances…
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September 15, 2008 | Monday | 37 Comments
I have never been shy of stating how much I loathe the term “chick lit.” Hate it. I like some of the books that term describes - and like Jane I have a massive fangirl crush on Meg Cabot. It’s preposterous, this crush. I have a serious thing… well, no, it’s probably graduated to a thaaaang for Rob Wilkins, the hero of her 1-800-Where-R-U series. Seriously one of the best heroes I’ve read in awhile. Even if the final book in the series was entirely “happily ever after and boy oh boy do we mean it” to the point where…
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June 19, 2008 | Thursday | 76 Comments
Thanks to Jamie, who forwarded me this link that set my blood pressure up another notch. I’m home sick today and utterly cranky, so the less I say about this one the better. From an interview with author Polly Williams on Yahoo! about her book, Yummy Mummy: Q: Are the heroines in your three books similar? A: “They are all the same age, 34, but at different stages of life. I wanted to make the books relevant to those issues that women really face today, otherwise they would be romances.” Nice. Thanks, Polly. So my romances aren’t relevant to issues…
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