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Do you really think chicklit is just about shoes, shopping and sex?
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I’m more bothered by why chicklit is summarily dismissed (often by people who haven’t read any of it) because it’s explicitly targeted at women.
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More interesting to me is Walters's lingering on "chicklit", especially given her book which she has excerpted online.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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No, this hasn't turned into some kind of chicklit novel.
The first sentence I wrote today... Edward Willett 2006
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No, this hasn't turned into some kind of chicklit novel.
Archive 2006-11-05 Edward Willett 2006
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Do agents ever step outside their chosen genre? ie. an agent known for repping "chicklit" all of a sudden takes on a "serial killer" novel.
Archive 2006-03-12 Miss Snark 2006
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I never really thought about it, but I guess chicklit books translate well into made for TV movies.
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Gives a whole other meaning to "chicklit you can really sink your teeth into."
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Ongoing at Bookninja is an argument in the comments of the post right below this one about whether publishing, and especially the term “chicklit”, are sexist.
Books men want 2009
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How can the woman instructed to say no to Mills and Boon, to chicklit, even to AS Byatt, be stopped from falling back on Jane Austen, gaining false ideas about social advancement through romance, then descending. by degrees, into depravity, social exclusion and the queue for Quilliam's consulting room?
But Mr Darcy, shouldn't we be taking precautions? | Catherine Bennett 2011
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