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WordsDay: Groff?s Monsters is a lot more than just ambitious chick-lit
2008-05-22 18:55:00 It might be easy to categorize Lauren Groff?s debut novel The Monsters of Templeton as chick-lit with literary pretensions. After all, the main character, Willie Upton, returns to her hometown in self-imposed exile, disgraced and unsure how to find redemption. Willie?s single mother has issues. Her best friend has issues. Men are generally cads, jerks, comic foils not to be taken seriously, or manipulative bastards?or, at best, they move through the world oblivious to nearly everything around them. There?s lots of soul searching, lots of feminine empowerment, lots of women-know-best-wink-wink, nudge-nudge, don?t-we-sisters? But Groff?s novel is nearly perfect in all ways. The writing, the characters, and the insights into life all feel full and fully realized. The Monsters of Templeton is a rich, wonderfully readable literary achievement. Templeton is a not-so-thinly veiled version of Cooperstown, New York, complete with a baseball museum, a national literary icon, the state histori...
We Are Scientists 'Chick Lit' Video
2008-05-05 00:00:00 We Are Scientists are out with the video to their new single 'Chick Lit', from the Brooklyn, New York based indie rock band's third album 'Brain Thrust Mastery', out now in the UK and on May 13th in the U.S. According to the band, 'Chick Lit' tells t
We Are Scientists 'Chick Lit' Video
2008-05-04 11:31:00 We Are Scientists are out with the video to their new single 'Chick Lit', from the Brooklyn, New York based indie rock band's third album 'Brain Thrust Mastery', out now in the UK and on May 13th in the U.S. According to the band, 'Chick Lit' tells t
we are scientists - chick lit (video premiere)
2008-05-01 22:57:00 we are scientists - chick lit [link 2][oh those silly boys of we are scientists. their latest video has the cute duo playing cowboys rounding up a group of rowdy... um... puppies. just verging a bit on 'brokeback mountain' territory, i'm assuming the dogs were used as a distraction tactic (look! elvis!). with their fun catchy album brain thrust mastery already in stores, expect to watch more puppery videos in the future!]http://feeds.feedburner-.com/WongiesMusicWorld
Kristin Harmel, THE ART OF FRENCH KISSING, chick-lit novelist: Mr. Media In
2008-04-07 16:27:00 Kristin Harmel’s new novel, her fourth, in fact, is titled The Art of French Kissing. It’s a sweet, surprisingly gentle story of a young boy-band publicist, who’s a woman from Orlando, whose life there collapses, and she goes to Paris to escape and maybe find herself again. It’s chick-lit for sure, but I enjoyed it. It also made me think more fondly of Paris than I had since the one time that my wife and I visited there back in ’88. Maybe we’ll get into that later. open separate windowALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media's RSS Feed.BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: So tell us that you’re in some fabulous part of the country.KRISTIN HARMEL: I’m actually back home in Orlando, Florida right now. In the past week, we’ve been in Boston, New York, Atlanta, and now back in Orlando for launch parties.ANDELMAN: Oh, Orlando. Well, that’s okay. We’ll just pretend you’re in Monte Carlo or something.HARMEL: Exactly. Can I backtrack and revise that? I’m ly...
By: Mr. Media
Kristin Harmel, THE ART OF FRENCH KISSING, chick-lit novelist: Mr. Media In
2008-04-07 04:31:00 Return to Part 2!Return to Part 1!ANDELMAN: Would you describe yourself as successful at this point as a novelist, or are you still looking for that around the corner?HARMEL: This is the first year that I would say yes to that question. The first two years I always sort of felt like well, I have these books out. And it was so exciting to walk into any Barnes & Noble in the country or any Borders and see my books sitting there. It still took a little bit of getting used to, like, “Oh my goodness, I can’t believe it. That’s my novel.” This is the first year, though, that I feel like something has really clicked into place. I’m having a lot of people turn up at my launch parties -- and I’m having these launch parties all over the country -- and strangers, people I’ve never met, and say things to me like, “Oh my God, I’m so excited to read your book. I loved your first two books and such a fan.” I guess I never thought I’d get to the point where people would say th...
By: Mr. Media
Kristin Harmel, THE ART OF FRENCH KISSING, chick-lit novelist: Mr. Media In
2008-04-07 04:30:00 Return to Part 1!ANDELMAN: That’s really what it comes down to. I’ve got to ask: What does make a bad date? My sense is that you’re single so it’s a fair question.HARMEL: Yes. What makes a bad date? Let me think. I think that maybe the reason I don’t feel like I’ve been on a lot of bad dates is because I usually just enjoy talking to people and finding out about them. I enjoy meeting new people so usually dates are fine, but I think the ones that are bad are the ones that you feel like you’re pulling teeth just to talk to a person. You know what I mean? Like when I feel like I’m interviewing somebody as opposed to having a conversation with them. To me, that’s sort of the worst kind of date where you have these I ask a million questions, and they just answer them with yeses or nos, and they stare at me blankly. It’s like, “Okay, I only have so many questions. I’m running out here.” But, fortunately, I have not been on many of those.ANDELMAN: Let’s come ba...
By: Mr. Media
Only Uni - Christian Fiction Chick Lit review
2008-03-11 00:33:00 This is the second in the Sushi Series. There are 4 cousins who belong to a blended Japanese and Chinese family. We read about Lex the volleyball jock in the first one. Only Uni is about Trish, the flirt, who got put in her place by Lex’s flame from the first book. Does this begin to ...
Blame Chick-lit
2007-11-15 17:07:00 Charlotte Stretch asks herself in The Guardians's Books Blog whatever happened to gothic romance? Blame chick-lit.You know the story: Girl meets boy, boy locks girl in attic, boy promptly moves on to the next bit of stuff that comes along. Next year marks the 160th anniversary of the publication of Jane Eyre, and if the recent BBC adaptation is anything to go by, she's lost none of her ability to fascinate those who encounter her.Furthermore, Charlotte Brontë's seminal novel refreshed the formula for gothic romances, with a spate of copycat triple-deckers soon following "Currer Bell" on to the book market. No popular romance was complete without a fragile heroine in dire need of a good rescuing, a brooding, potentially bad boy but ultimately damaged-soul hero and a vixenish, scheming rival for his affections. A taste of exotic stuff from overseas? All the better. A house, possibly haunted but certainly in possession of a few spine-chilling adornments? Perfect.Since then, the rom...
By: BronteBlog
Once again: Jane Eyre is not chick-lit
2007-11-14 16:19:00 Australian newspaper The Age, while reviewing Alex Miller's latest book, Landscape of Farewell, describes the author's style as Alex Miller's novels combine to an unusual degree realism and inwardness. In fact, you could argue that his novels extend the tradition of English ghost stories: The Woman in White and Wuthering Heights; even The Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. The past haunts Miller's characters and his stories puzzle out the mystery of that haunting. They are strange, extreme novels. Yet, in the ghost story tradition, Miller creates narrators whose detached intelligence holds these fantastical elements in a close and precisely imagined world. (Lisa Gorton)Trashionista interviews writer Anna Blundy, whose latest book is called Neat Vodka. She tries to pass Jane Eyre as a chick-lit read. And as you well know she's not the first to do so. Fortunately in this case, the interviewer Keris Stainton adds that Jane Eyre is not chick-lit. Your favourite chick-lit book?Does Jane...
By: BronteBlog
Chick Lit Book Reviews
2007-08-24 02:16:00 Reviews Of Chick Lit Books And Women's Fictionwww.CandyCoveredBooks.co-m/Chick Lit Book Reviewswww.BookReporter.com/chi-cklit/index.aspwww.ChickLit.us/-www.ChickLitBooks.com/www.Chick-LitRomanceWriters.com/www.TeenC-hickLit.com/Chick Lit Book Reviewswww.BooksForABuck.com/ro-mpages/rom_chick_lit.htmlBooksF-orABuck also publishes Romance, Science Fiction, Mystery/Suspense, and General Fiction ebooks. The Sell Us Your Books Linkwww.BooksForABuck.com/gener-al/authorpage.htmlThe Chick Lit Review pays for Chick Lit Short Stories and Reviewswww.ChickLitReview.org/s-ubmissions.aspxChick Lit Books
Chick Lit Books
2007-08-24 01:30:00 Chick LitWhat is Chick Lit? You can read about it at Wikipedia and ChickLitBooks! http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch-ick_litwww.ChickLitBooks.com/wh-atis.phpHere are some Chick Lit Books from Amazon!Chick Lit Books
Chick Lit
2007-05-20 00:00:00 I recently discovered Chick Lit. Okay, so I knew it existed and had read a few books that I enjoyed. But I really never thought of it as an actual genre. I just figured I found a few good authors, but that wasn't the case. It's a whole genre. It is ...
Boys' Books vs. Chick Lit in the Young Adult Section
2007-04-04 06:00:00 In the ongoing search for boy-friendly literature, I offer up the rants and reviews from this article on book recommendations for young men. I should stress that I haven't read any of the books reviewed, so I can't give you my own assessment of them, but I'll credit the author with giving enough detail to help the reader decide if the works are interesting and appropriate. (I have read other works by Robert Parker, most famous for his Spencer detective series, who has taken up young adult literature, and can say that I found his books generally interesting and well-written, if not overly memorable.) I do agree with the author that the more recent offerings for young male readers do not even come close to the books churned out for young women. Sometimes it seems as though the young adult selections consist of nothing but girl-empowerment and female coming-of-age novels. Then again, classic childrens literature is full of great boy-friendly fare, from ...
Chick Lit
2007-02-10 05:45:00 Heels Over HemingwayBy Maureen DowdThe New York TimesI was cruising through Borders, looking for a copy of “Nostromo.”Suddenly I was swimming in pink. I turned frantically from display table to display table, but I couldn’t find a novel without a pink cover. I was accosted by a sisterhood of cartoon women, sexy string beans in minis and stilettos, fashionably dashing about book covers with the requisite urban props — lattes, books, purses, shopping bags, guns and, most critically, a diamond ring.Was it a Valentine’s Day special?No, I realized with growing alarm, chick lit was no longer a niche. It had staged a coup of the literature shelves. Hot babes had shimmied into the grizzled old boys’ club, the land of Conrad, Faulkner and Maugham. The store was possessed with the devil spawn of “The Devil Wears Prada.” The blood-red high heel ending in a devil’s pitchfork on the cover of the Lauren Weisberger best seller might as well be driving a stake through the heart of... |
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