You have probably heard the saying that you can tell a person[character etc] by the company that they keep?
Do you think the same holds true for what a person reads?
I saw somewhere on this website a thread asking 'what sort of Jane Austen character are you?' It was quiz question. It got me thinking. I have never read Jane Austen or any of the Bronte Sisters and I have only read two so-called chick-lit books. I didn't like either of the heroines in these two chick-lit books. They were tiresome, unlikeable and two dimensional, and the other characters were lazy stereotypes - the macho businessman, whom our heroine will do anything to marry, the heroine's gossipy, bitchy, 'sex and shopping' mad girlfriends etc.
Does this mean that I am not as feminine as I like to think, or does it mean that when it comes to literature I have good taste? :laugh:
hey, I love Jane Austen!
Btw I didn't mean to imply that I think Austen and the Brontes were bad writers I am simply not drawn to their books.
okay, I was just teasing. :laugh:
I don't think there's a law somewhere that chicks must read chick books, so I think you're okay there. :laugh:
Hi Nero :)
I just remembered I read Jane Eyre in first year at university. I liked that book!
I often identify with the the principal female character in books. I liked and strongly identified with Brenda Last in Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust that was until Waugh brilliantly in the course of a few pages transformed Brenda into a figure of contempt!
I could use more chick-lit (never heard that term before0 in my library.
gimme the good stuff :D
I worked in bookstores for 8 years. The most popular genres for women were actually #1 mainstream, dramatic literature (e.g. Kite Runner, Middlesex, Life of Pi, etc.) and #2 Thrillers. I would say "chick-lit" (Confessions of a Shopaholic, Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, etc.) came in third. Of course, it varied a lot from community to community. When I worked in a blue-collar town we sold a lot of Romance, whereas in a wealthy town with an older population we sold almost none.