(the dude in the vid above hates Liz Gilbert more than I do!)I did a bit of preliminary research before opening up Eat, Pray, Love. Its author (Elizabeth Gilbert) is a hip thirty-something living in Manhattan. She grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Connecticut and attended NYU before establishing [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 31, 2008
My second time: Woman Vs. Men?
Lipstick JungleFriday, I agree: Why do I not love these books? Why, in fact, do I not only not love them, but I do not like them, and sometimes even dislike them? I should relate to the characters, but I do not. I should enjoy the stories, for it is fact that people enjoy reading [...]
March 30, 2008
Why am I struggling?
Well hello,So after reading Lipstick Jungle, the only real question that is coming to mind is why don’t I like reading this stuff? In taking on this Chick Lit course, I was convinced that I would pick up each novel and not want to put it down. I thought this literature would have an addictive [...]
March 30, 2008
Bait and Switch
Hey everyone, sorry about my delayed posting. I have a lot to say about this book. Considering that it was the book I chose for the group, I’m debating whether or not it adequately conveyed what I wanted to get across. My assignment was to find chic lit addressing different ethnicities, classes, [...]
March 30, 2008
They ARE Mr. Big
Immediately after reading Lipstick Jungle for our class I downloaded the shows on nbc.com. I’m starting to really like it as the characters develop. For a nationally broadcasted show I was shocked and impressed by how much of the feminist overtones it retained from the novel. Sometimes I wondered whether these were depicted in a [...]
March 27, 2008
What the heck IS a Lipstick Jungle?
OK, so I have figured it out – I think. The book ends with the sentence “It’s a jungle out there…No…It’s a Lipstick Jungle” (435). We were all kind of wondering what this term actually means and to me, this sentence tells all. The book keeps talking about how NYC is the only place where [...]
March 26, 2008
I don’t think so…
One thing that stood out to me in this book was the plethora of references to a traditional family model where the wife is in charge of the domestic realm and the husband is in charge of finances. In many ways, this model makes the wife dependant on her husband. I can’t tell if Bushnell [...]
March 25, 2008
True love…barf
Hey girlfriends!I definitely felt the idea of “true love” or it’s absence was one of the most interesting themes in Lipstick Jungle. It seems that the relationships that “work” in this novel rely very little on love and more on functionality. For example, after Victory’s fashion line bombs and she meets Lyne and thinks “it [...]
March 24, 2008
‘Dirty Sexy Money’ and Lipstick Jungle
This month (April 2008), Elle Magazine published a number of articles relevant to chick lit’s powerful female characters. In Dirty Sexy Money, LiLi Tan reported that 1 in 5 Elle readers make more money than their partners (median income: 70-80k), and that these women admitted to having sex slightly less often than their lesser earning counterparts ( http://www.elle.com/featurefullstory/13740/money-sex-love-survey-elle-msnbccom.html). In [...]
March 17, 2008
My first time
Hi Girls! To start off, I’d like to tell you about the view point that I am writing from: an educated 22 year-old girl having her first fling with chick lit. I am part of this group because the genre as a whole interests me, and because I have never read it before. While the [...]
