http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate Confessions of a chick lit fanatic Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:17:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Though I love the TV show, Candace Bushnell's book Sex and the City is very dull. I actually read it long before I ever started watching the show - in fact, that's why I held out for so long. You know how you read a fantastic book and then are ... http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/sex-and-the-city.html Nick Hornby's High Fidelity was not only the first guy lit book I ever read, it also preceded my discovery of chick lit by a couple of years. I was living in Paris in the summer of 96 and reading my way through the bookshelf of the British woman whose ... http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/high-fidelity.html Chick lit-like books written by guys deserve a more manly name, so I've come up with guy lit. (Incredibly inspired, I know.) I've also see "lad lit," which I find too British, and "dick lit," which offers a nice rhyme but is rather vulgar. So guy lit it is. I'll ... http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/guy-lit.html Marian Keyes, the queen of Irish chick lit, delved into the serious subject of drug addiction in her third book, Rachel's Holiday, but managed an amazing job of mixing those horror stories with romance and humor. The end result is a wonderful book about another of the Walsh sisters - ... http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/rachels-holiday.html Isabel Wolff will always remain one of my favorite chick lit authors, even though I was incredibly disappointed by her third book, Out of the Blue. It's the story of a woman whose husband has an affair and leaves her, sort of, but never manages to completely make the break ... http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/out-of-the-blue.html It's fun to imagine that incredibly smart guys, called "nerds" in high school, will grow up to be rich and successful while the jocks and other popular kids will end working at a gas station. Vicki Lewis Thompson's Nerd in Shining Armor takes this fantasy a few steps further. The ... http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/nerd-in-shining-armor.html If The Edge of Reason, the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, left you wanting more, then you're in luck: Helen Fielding did another series of columns which are available online. (Or maybe you're not as lame as I am and already read them when they were published 3 years ago.) ... http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/bridget-jones-diary-returns.html I've been away for a while - just haven't had as much time to read and blog as I'd like, but I promise I'll be adding more reviews soon. In the meantime, I thought I'd share this list of the 50 Best Chick Lit Blogs from The Love Coach - ... http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/50-best-chick-lit-blogs.html Last Chance Saloon is Marian Keyes's first novel told from multiple third-person points of view. It's the story of old friends and new loves, growing up and seeing people for who they really are. Between the hair-obsessed actor and the woman who learns that it's ok to need someone, it ... http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/last-chance-saloon.html It's funny how people can see things so differently. A friend of mine asked a chick-lit-loving friend of his to recommend a book for me, and she came up with Alex Witchel's The Spare Wife, which she described as "fun, sexy and an insider view of New York City's upper ... http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/the-spare-wife.html