It wasn't too long ago that my IRL BFF listed her girl crushes on Facebook. I don't remember who they were but the likes of Penelope Cruz and Angelina Jolie were on the list, along with funny girls like Kathy Griffin and Tina Fey. Whatever. When someone poses the question "if you could have dinner with anyone in the world, living or dead" I'm ashamed that people like Mother Theresa, Abraham … [Read more...] about Girl Crushes — or — Four Women's Fiction Authors I Love And Why

There is no harder genre to define than women's fiction.  Lordy, lordy! Is it fiction for women or fiction written by women?  Is it feminist fiction? Is it any book with a female protagonist?  Is women's fiction simply an dumping genre for writing that isn't romance but isn't quite literary?  Is it anything that just wouldn't appeal to most men? Does it have to be about a family or does that make … [Read more...] about Women's Fiction Defined