Reasons to stick with John Grisham

So, if you can have 'chick lit' meaning literature for young single women, can you have ....

not such a spring chick lit? - stories for the post-menopausal woman?

chic lit - stories for the fashionable woman?

cheek lit - stories for women obsessed with the way their bottoms look?

cheque lit - stories for women with a shopping addiction?

choc-lit - stories for women who love confectionery?

chip lit - stories for women who love French Fries/gambling/electronic products (or all three, in which case triple-chip-lit?)

click lit - stories for women with obsessions about turning lights on and off?

crick lit - stories for women who often wake up in the mornings having slept in the wrong position on the pillow?

clique lit - stories for women who tend to hang around with the same crowd?

check lit - stories for women with OCD?

badly lit - stories for women which are set in dark places?

veg lit? - stories for the non-meat eating young single woman who'd rather not be associated with carnivorous products? Okay, it doesn't have the same phonological ring about it, but hey, principles are principles.

Comments

  1. Lesley19/7/09 18:09

    So I take it you are on holiday?
    haha

    I ordered The Handmaid's Tale just now. Looking forward to my first taste of dystopianism.
    :-)

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  2. Brilliant Sulk19/7/09 23:16

    How DO you come up with this stuff?

    Funny, funny.

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  3. Fran Hill20/7/09 02:38

    Lesley, I hope you love The Handmaid's Tale. Just watched the film version last night, though, and it's not even a quarter as good as the book, so don't bother with that. Let me know what you think of the book. I am gradually reading my way through all of Atwood's works. I think she's fab.

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  4. Fran Hill20/7/09 02:40

    Amanda, it all comes from a brain which prefers trivia to serious work. So, put it this way, I don't read much philosophy or Proust.

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