The first American chick lit I read was Otherwise Engaged: A Novel, by Suzanne Finnamore. While the story progresses from engagement to wedding, it’s not really about that so much as it is about relationships and life changes. It’s a bit more serious than, say, Bridget Jones’s Diary, but it’s also more real, and it’s […]
Month: June 2008
The Making of Minty Malone
Once I’d read Bridget Jones’s Diary I was dying for similar novels, but the term “chick lit” didn’t exist yet and I had no way of searching for them. (There were of course other books out there, but they were pretty much all in England, and I didn’t discover them until later.) So it was […]
Bridget Jones’s Diary
No serious discussion of chick lit can take place without mention of Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding, which pretty much started the entire genre. There’s nothing I can say about this book that hasn’t been said – it’s side-splittingly funny, and it’s playful and clever and escapist and just downright fun. It’s the first […]
Chick lit fanatic
I’ve decided that I’m ready to share my most embarrassing secret with the world. I read all the time, but not literature, or New York Times bestsellers, or even Oprah’s book club selections. My favorite books are chick lit, and while they might not be intellectual or impressive, they’re funny and entertaining, and I can’t […]