Chick Lit Book Reviews

Here is an example of a paragraph from a female erotic fiction book:

"Dancing like a wild thing, totally in the zone, caressing the air with the curves of my body, my eyes are closed and I am dancing with myself and for myself as I feel source energy flood through me in that glorious way that comes when I dance - power, sexuality, beauty, confidence, magnetism, fill me. I am irresistable! "

So this quote: “women’s sexual desire is narcissistic — it is dominated by the yearnings of “self-love,” by the wish to be the object of erotic admiration and sexual need, more than finding the male body arousing in itself." is it true? I have read quite a lot of erotic fiction for women & it points out that, so is it really true?

Also, I did a poll talking about womens narcissistic & bisexual tendencies: http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/471483/results, so does this have merit in what its saying, and are most women turned on narcissistically?

Do people really buy that shit?

Okay, sorry for the title, but it seems to work better than mine was?
Of course the other questions were easier. Here goes:

Hello!

I’m having a little trouble settling on a topic for a paper I have to write. I’ve just began my research, so I want to settle this before I get too far. Its for a Comparative Literature course, at 200 level focused on Women and World literature.

The essay needs to be comparative in nature, and 10 pages.

The topic I’m leaning towards is how fiction and memoirs offer a more impactful view due to how personal it is, so you can see through the character’s eyes, leading to better understanding by readers far removed of events that actually go on.

It applies to the situations in the novels we’ve read, involving women in slavery, in India, and in Iran where many norms are hard to really grasp for those in the Western world, especially when read from a textbook.

I’m torn. I don’t know if this is really all that creative. Or if its too common sense. Can it really be an impactful essay?

Opinions?

Also, I’m tossing around ideas like saying that fiction should be included in history, which is a more… controversial statement, perhaps more creative. I need to tie this in particularly to the womens rights in the novel. Perhaps how men will perceive it differently through fiction than textbook?

Also, if you have any good resources, please let me know!

Thank you!!
I should be more specific. This isn’t my thesis, by any stretch at all. Its just the idea that I want to take my thesis out of. It’s a starting block, at best.

In particular I’m comparing the portrayal of the struggle for women’s rights in the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison and the novel Tamarind Mem by Anita Badami. I’ll also be including a couple short stories as primary sources.

I’m just wondering if saying that using a personal view to connect readers to history is more effective than using a classic textbook is too common sense, too broad.

I always lose marks on essays for lack of creativity. Is this a creative topic? Would this interest you?
Also, I know impactful is substandard English. It would never end up in a final draft. I’m an English major. I may have trouble finding a topic, but I’m not illiterate. Just somewhat lazy with my language on Y!A.

Suggestion #1. Get rid of the word "impactful." It’s not a word. Use important, meaningful, powerful, moving, evocative, whatever, but expect points to be deducted if you use "impactful."

It’s supposed to be a comparison. What are you comparing? Memoir to biography? Memoir to fiction. Memoir fiction to regular fiction? Shouldn’t you be comparing one piece of literature to another?

What happens when America’s favorite TV dating expert finds out on national television that her husband is cheating? Fifteen Minutes of Shame, a wickedly funny romantic comedy that will delight fans of Sophie Kinsella, Emily Giffin, Jane Green and Jennifer Weiner, from bestselling author (and real-life TV dating expert) Lisa Daily. “A dream of a read” - USA Weekend’s Dennie Hughes. ISBN number: 978-0-452-28913-0 http://www.lisadaily.com/html/trailer.html genre(s) : fiction, women’s fiction, chick lit, comic fiction

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First Book Promo for The Size of a Mustard Seed by Author Umm Juwayriyah
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Jameelah Salih is a 27 year Muslim woman born to what appears to be one of the inner city’s stronger blended American Muslim families. She works as a hair stylist with her two best friends in the city’s only Muslim women’s owned and operated hair salon, Covered Pearls. On appearance and material possessions alone Jameelah seems to be doing okay. What most don’t know is that she is one traffic jam away from losing control of her life. Post 9/11 stresses seem to be creating negative impacts on everyone around her. Jameelah feels as though she is walking on eggshells and questions her own place in society. She prays for a change, but what will she do if change actually comes?

When a prominent Imam proposes marriage to Jameelah she feels as if it’s the blessing that she has been waiting for from Allah. She knows marrying him will change her life, but when unexpected crisis erupts and family secrets are exposed, Jameelah is forced to make hard choices and put her complete faith in the only One unable to break it.

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I saw Switchfoot’s concert in Toronto on February 28th, 2007 and met the band after the show. I happened to bring my acoustic guitar along for the trip, and Jon Foreman (lead singer) acquiesced to my request to play a few songs on it.
As a side note, the whole band ended up signing the guitar.
Enjoy!

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LYRICS:
I don’t remember much about that night
I’m pretty sure it rained the day I died
I think it rained
I think it rained
I’m pretty sure it rained the day I died

You and I were always closet friends
It’s women that make enemies of men
A pretty face, a pretty face,
A pretty face would one day do me in

Her eyes were like the winter when she goes
Holding secrets only winter knows
And winter knows, winter knows
Winter’s seen the wolves in women’s clothes

She came to me in middle afternoon
We held each other close the whole night through
And love was blind, love was blind
I never saw her let you in the room

Someone always wins
And then they write a book
I sing my defense
Fingering a different crook

A gun shot was the only word you said
And all of my defenses came out red
Love was red, love was red
She left with you
You left me lying dead

So I watched her as you put me in the dirt
She had my wallet tucked inside her skirt
And I went numb, I went numb
So I’m not dead if what you did don’t hurt

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Janet Elaine Smith visits the women whose name’s and challenges are synonymous with the poem of the Day’s of the Week Children

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“It’s Sex and the City meets Alias.” THE FIDELITY FILES, the national bestselling novel by Jessica Brody, follows the life of a beautiful young woman who makes a living as an undercover “fidelity inspector,” hired by suspicious wives and girlfriends to test the loyalty of men. www.TheFidelityFiles.com ISBN# 978-0312375461 Genres: Commercial Fiction, Commercial Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Romance

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Love Under Cover, the much-anticipated follow-up to Jessica Brody’s national bestselling novel, THE FIDELITY FILES, is available in stores November 10, 2009.

Can a former fidelity inspector give up her true calling for the perfect guy? Or will the temptation to conduct love under cover be too strong to resist?

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The Working Life of a Published Writer
The Wilderness Years

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All her life Muri Pond has dreamed of finding the father who left her when she was small. Now it’s too late. Joseph Pond, a half Nez Perce Indian, wills her his remote high desert Central Oregon property, but when Muri arrives, she shocked: her inheritance is little more than a ramshackle trailer, surrounded by a fence made from old oven doors.

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