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anamardoll · 03-07-2012, 11:35 AM

The biggest current obstacle to chick lit, that I can see, is that the genre tends to revolve around shopping as escapism. That's a little harder to sustain, fantasy-wise, in the current economy. There's a fine line between "escapism" and "being shown things I can never have".

03-07-2012, 11:35 AM	#7
anamardoll Chasing Butterflies Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries.	The biggest current obstacle to chick lit, that I can see, is that the genre tends to revolve around shopping as escapism. That's a little harder to sustain, fantasy-wise, in the current economy. There's a fine line between "escapism" and "being shown things I can never have".