chick-lit

There are some brilliantly written, warm, funny and insightful examples of so-called "chick-lit", but because they have all been lumped in together and marketed so obviously at women or, at least, the type of women marketing departments imagine spend their days eating cupcakes and watching re-runs of Sex and the City, the quality of the work gets ignored.

Should we mourn the end of chick-lit? 2011

I too am an omnivorous reader – anything from literary prize winners and classics to crime novels and paranormal thrillers - but ‘chick-lit’ is something that I rarely read because it irritates the life out of me for all the reasons you cite.

Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Another key set of chick-lit virtues is to be gullible, hopelessly loyal, and endlessly open to be taken advantage of.

2009 November « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Otherwise one must experiment completely out of the comfort zone, with chick-lit say, or contemporary French science fiction.

Reading Dangerously « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

A lot of these books were chick-lit of the type you describe, and I read them with the sickened fascination of an armchair anthropologist reading about cannibals.

Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

No man should receive his sexual education from porn; and no woman should receive her emotional education from chick-lit or chick-flicks.

Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

… An excellent combination of chick-lit, paranormal romance, and mystery.

My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011

Another key set of chick-lit virtues is to be gullible, hopelessly loyal, and endlessly open to be taken advantage of.

Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

I lost my patience with chick-lit after laughing through Bridget Jones Diary when it first came out.

Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Maybe there is a template that the publishers hand out to the chick-lit manufacturers and they just add names, locations and a few bits of dialogue & scenery.

Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room 2009