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The New York Times disregards chick lit (surprise!)
As Jennifer Weiner writes on her blog:
And the New York Times Book Review doesn’t think there have been any recent novels written about work except for Personal Days and Then We Came to the End.
This is great news, because it means that I hallucinated In the Drink and Piece of Work and The Second Assistant and The Devil Wears Prada and Chambermaid and Sammy’s Hill, and I Don’t Know How She Does It, and Citizen Girl,
and I can now write them all myself! (Surely the reviewer and his
editors didn’t just ignore them because they’re, you know, women’s
work.)
Whenever I read something like this, my first instinct is to sigh dramatically, sometimes bounce my head of my desk, and then sit in a "oh, what's the point?" funk for up to half an hour. Maybe someone should send reviewer Mark Sarvas the above collection of books...?
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Posted by Shiny Media on July 3, 2008 in Book related | Permalink
Comments
This is a really frustrating phenomenon, especially considering Marian Keyes' last two books, Anybody Out There and This Charming Man were about women dealing with subjects such as death, alcoholism and domestic abuse.
My review of This Charming Man: http://skrishnasbooks.blogspot.com/2008/07/this-charming-man-marian-keyes.html
Posted by: S. Krishna | Jul 3, 2008 3:03:57 PM
Must confess though, I sort of wish I *did* hallucinate 'Citizen Girl'. Ugh!
Posted by: Gemma | Jul 3, 2008 4:16:03 PM
Hah! Well, I disregard the New York Times! So there!
Posted by: Robin | Jul 3, 2008 7:54:29 PM
There more people slag Citizen Girl off, the more I want to read it!
Posted by: Keris | Jul 4, 2008 10:43:06 AM
