come educate me about chick-lit ....

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lilolilmanchester · 19/07/2009 19:39

... I'd always thought it meant books which generally appealed more to women than men. But have just been told that Anita Shreve and Anne Tyler are not chick-lit. So I've clearly got it completely wrong ....... please spare my future embarrassment with a definition. Thanks,

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lilolilmanchester · 19/07/2009 19:43

ah, so there is an age element then

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itchyandscratchy · 19/07/2009 19:43

search it on amazon - you'll soon see plenty of what Moving mentions.

Some are more like Shit Lit.
The only ones I can stand of the genre are Marian Keyes and occasionally Wendy Holden.

Lisa Jewell also good.

janeite · 19/07/2009 19:43

Shreve and Tyler are generally considered 'better fiction' than chick-lit (can't be doing with either of them personally).

The title Chick-lit is decreed based on multiplying the number of references to Jimmy Choos, divided by the number of pages in which the heroine does something scatty, added to the litres of cocktails drunk and subtracted from the sum total of clunky adjectives times by the amount of hyperbole and references to Prada.

MovingOutOfBlighty · 19/07/2009 19:42

Anita Shreve and Anne Tyler are defo not. They are womens lit I think.

Flamesparrow · 19/07/2009 19:41

wiki saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays

MovingOutOfBlighty · 19/07/2009 19:41

They often have pastel covers and silver bits.

Usually there is a martini glass on the front somewhere. And really bad puns in the title.

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