So there’s tons of chick lit out there, and there’s some guy lit, but what happens when you combine the two? I enjoy books which tell the story from both points of view. They’re usually authored by a man and and a woman who each write their gender’s character(s), though sometimes a single person succeeds […]
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Guy Lit
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 soon be adding reviews of […]
Romance novels
There are a few characteristics of Harlequin Romance-type novels that I always seem to notice. Some of these are pretty minor or subtle, but because I read so much I see them over and over and they begin to take on a much bigger importance and distract me from the actual story. First, the sex […]
What is chick lit?
It’s kind of hard to define chick lit. The early books, like Bridget Jones’s Diary and Watermelon, tended to be light-hearted. The women might be flawed and undergo some traumatic events, but they usually had a pretty good sense of humor about it all. These are the books I adore. The phenomenal success of Helen […]