What not to read: recessionista lit

A series of new articles, over the past few weeks has released a common theme female literature ideas already dead. Female literature works, among swilling, stylist store - - shopping courtship, include all types of Bergdorf Bridget Jones's diary, from fly, blonde, from the bookstore shelves of mid 90s beginning. -
However, the genre seems to have stalled recession. An article independent explanation is "new crop of novels, affect solve recession". The daily mail advocated the arrival of "recessionista lit," the author Sarah Bilston to parents explained how she changed to rewrite or many of the scene is in her book, recession - cut and reflects the current mood of The Times. Bilston prediction:

In the next months and years, expect to see plots that turn on overcoming repossession and job-loss, not shopping and sex. The frothiest novels must respond to a more sober age. Like many American businesses, chick-lit must reinvent itself – fast – if it's going to survive.

If that's the case, and we really do start seeing more authors crank out books about jobless women and their credit woes, chick lit isn't just dead. It deserves to be dragged out into the street and shot.

Let's cut to the chase – most women were reading chick lit because they were looking for an escape. More often than not, heroines were blank, perky everywomen who focused on men, shopping and friends in that order. And we readers of chick lit cared not a bit. Just like romance novel readers before us, we overlooked little things such as plot and characterisation for the chance to step into someone else's uncomplicated world, try on their Jimmy Choos, play around with another type of life and then breeze away with all problems solved. Over the last decade, this fluffy idea of literary escape was tied to ideas of conspicuous consumption, lavish lifestyles and shopping. And the authors are right that readers are now feeling the credit pinch behind these lifestyles.