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Chick Lit

Rainbow Rowell’s ‘Landline’ Is Part Magic, Part Soap Opera, and All Popcorn
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Rainbow Rowell’s ‘Landline’ Is Part Magic, Part Soap Opera, and All Popcorn

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Zachary Houle
/ 23 July 2014
This novel plays hopscotch with different genres, and that’s part of its appeal.
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Graeme Simsion’s Feel Good Inc. Novel, ‘The Rosie Project’

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Zachary Houle
/ 1 October 2013
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Heavy (Emotional) Weather in Jenna Blum’s ‘The Stormchasers’

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Zachary Houle
/ 19 May 2011
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When Trends Survive: 5 Trends That Have Made the Leap to Subgenre Status

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Peta Jinnath Andersen
/ 9 June 2010
Be a Man and Break Out the Tissue for ‘A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents’
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Be a Man and Break Out the Tissue for ‘A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents’

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Zachary Houle
/ 1 February 2010

While A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents might be “Chick Lit”, and it might be derided for its deficiencies, it’s a startling pleasant read – even for men like me.

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B As in Beirut by Iman Humaydan Younes

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Rachel Smucker
/ 20 March 2008
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Sammys House by Kristin Gore

By
PopMatters Staff
/ 29 July 2007
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Dedication by Emma McLaughlin

By
PopMatters Staff
/ 23 July 2007

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