In this month's Red magazine there's a feature in which four popular authors reveal their favourite summer reads (I pretty much summed that up in the headline there, didn't I?).
Jenny Colgan picks that woman again: Judy Blume's Deenie. Anna Maxted (who I wish would release a new book) chose EM Forster's A Room With A View. Lucie Whitehouse picked anything by Marian Keyes and Jane Fallon went for HE Bates's Love For Lydia.
But that wasn't really what intrigued me the most. Jools Oliver (she's married to TV chef Jamie, in case you're not familiar with her) said, "I love real chick lit novels by authors like Jane Green and Marian Keyes, which are all about romance, love and babies. They are just relaxing to read, when you don't want to have to think too much."
Okay, first of all, Marian Keyes? All about "romance, love and babies"? Not so much.
And second of all, I've read Jools Oliver's book about her pregnancy, Minus Nine to One, and I don't think thinking too much is something she really needs to worry about.
And, yes, that's probably the bitchiest thing I've ever written, but really!
