Category Archives: Chick lit
Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes: On Adapting ‘Good’ vs. ‘Great’ Novels
What with all the winter around here, and everyone being cooped up and kind of off their routines, I’ve been finding it hard to concentrate on much serious reading, so a couple of days ago I plucked Jennifer Weiner’s In Her Shoes off the shelf for a reread. My copy has the movie tie-in cover, so […]
Silly Novels by Women Novelists; or, Reflections on Jane Austen, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and Winning at Scrabble
From the Novel Readings Archives Seeing the movie tie-in edition of Sophie Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopaholic prominently displayed in a bookstore this weekend reminded me of the rant the novel brought on when I read it a couple of years ago. As you would expect from what follows, I haven’t seen the film. Well […]
Silly Novels about Silly Women; or, Reflections on Jane Austen, Sex and the City, and Winning at Scrabble
Well you see, it was a busy week, and sometimes it’s nice to have something light to pick up and read over breakfast or whatever….but Confessions of a Shopaholic sure is lame. In a general way, I don’t have much to add to what I said before about “chick lit.” I’m glad I got this […]
Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada
I began a compilation entry on ‘chick lit’ novels a few weeks ago and lost interest in writing it, basically because I found that the novels themselves were uninteresting. They included two or three by Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes, Good in Bed) and one called The Wives of Bath (the title was the best […]
