The Used World
I’ve got a love hate feeling about The Used World.
I loved the characters but also hated them because they were so damn stereotypical. I loved the story but it was so damn predictable. I loved the writing.
Chick Lit
Come and Get Me
Last week, a phone call caused me to think back to the good old days at women.com and more specifically think about the old Harlequin message boards. Hah. Memories!
It seems perfectly appropriate for me to have just read a “modern romance” often called “Harlequin for lesbians”. Come and Get Me was amusing and light with a ton of steamy sex and a happy ending.
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
I didn’t expect to enjoy Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging but I did. I enjoyed it very much and I laughed out loud a lot. Now that I’m finished, I’m also anxious to know what happened with the Sex God.
I’m so glad that the books on my Printz challenge have been really good, not like a lot of books that make the adult awards short lists (or long lists, for that matter.)
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Butch Girls Can Fix Anything
Ha. Butch Girls Can Fix Anything was amusing lesbian chick lit. And a little different from most lesbian chick lit. This time, there was a kid involved. A 9 year old who had to deal with the idea of “two moms”. And, the Asheville, NC setting was nice – lesbian bastion that it is. Heh.
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Barefoot:A Novel
Barefoot is chick lit and it is also cancer chick lit. Always a good combination. What I appreciated about this one was the fact that the other two women, the cancer free women, were in more trouble than the chick with the cancer. Awesome. I mean, in a novel it makes for awesome reading.
You don’t spend the whole book commiserating over the poor mom of babies who has cancer. Instead you’re distracted by the pregnant chick whose husband is a dirtbag, the young professor who not only slept with her student but damaged a Jackson Pollack and the teenage boy whose mom killed herself when he was 12. Awesome.
Also it was a little bit long. And it didn’t have chapters. It was divided by month – June, July and August and then Winter. And those summer months were long, long, long. I need chapters, darn it.
Looking for good cancer chick lit – Barefoot will fit the bill.
Sequestered Hearts
When I picked up Sequesterd Hearts from TW’s side of the bed and asked her if she’d finished with it, she asked me why I was going to read it. I couldn’t figure out why she asked until I realized she thought it was just a trashy romance novel. It is a trashy romance novel but it is also a trashy lesbian romance novel and that’s why I wanted to read it. We lesbians just don’t get enough trashy romance in our lives, ya know?
And it was good. Fun and not depressing, and it could have been very depressing since one of the chicks is an artist recently diagnosed with MS.
I’m glad I read it.
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Me and Mr Darcy
Oh brother. Why did I read Me and Mr Darcy? Oh yea, I wanted something quick and easy and light. Well this was all of those things. It was also pretty boring, pretty predictable and pretty ridiculous.
Do Jane Austen or Mr Darcy fans enjoy this sort of thing? Sassymonkey? I am pretty sure you read this but don’t remember whether you liked it or not. I sort of doubt that you did.
Yuk.
The View from Mt Joy
Yay for chick lit! Yay for not-weird-books! The View from Mount Joy was very sweet and very chick lit. And, I think, better than Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons.
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Agnes & the Hitman
Agnes & the Hitman was hysterical. No, wait. It was HYSTERICAL! I loved it and not just because of the flamingos. Best Jennifer Crusie book so far. I want to be cranky Agnes when I grow up, without the hitman – though he definitely had his charm.
And an OMG I had no idea moment… Jennifer Crusie wrote Coffee at Luke’s. I need that book. Who has not bought my Christmas gift yet? Whoever it is, you can send this – NOW.
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Chicks with Sticks
Bah, just lost my post which was no doubt much better than the one I’m about to recreate now. Hmph…
Anyway, I was telling you that I stumbled across a YA book on audio called Chicks With Sticks: Knit Two Together when Prince J and I went to the library a couple of weekends ago. I grabbed it to make TW smile, which it did. It also has made us both smile for the last two weeks when we listened to it in the car.
It’s a fun book and I’m betting a fun series. YA, chick lit, yarny goodness (do I sound all knitty?) with a lot of blogging and social networking high schooly stuff thrown in for good measure.
I need to figure out what “Yarn Over” means though.
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