http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate Confessions of a chick lit fanatic Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:17:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/rachels-holiday.html http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/rachels-holiday.html#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:38:18 +0000 lklawless http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/?p=90 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 – it’s funny and sad, serious and playful, and I’ve read it half a dozen times.

]]> http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/rachels-holiday.html/feed 1 http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/watermelon.html http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/watermelon.html#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:00:55 +0000 lklawless http://www.lklawless.com/chickliterate/?p=7 If you were to take a crash course on chick lit, Watermelon, by Marian Keyes, would be required reading. This début novel begins with Claire in the hospital, where she has just given birth to her first child a few minutes before her husband arrives to tell her that he’s leaving her for another woman. Claire’s subsequent breakdown and rebuilding of her life is by turns heart-breaking and inspiring, and it’s also heart-warming and really funny. Even the saddest, most tragic scenes are interspersed with humor – sometimes gentle, sometimes black – which make this a joy to read again and again.

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