Anonymous
06/21/2024 23:03
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
Where’d you go Bernadette?
Good book
Good book
Anonymous
06/21/2024 22:20
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
Anne Tyler springs to mind, these in particular:
Ladder of Years
Breathing Lessons
Clock Dance
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
A Patchwork Planet
Noah's Compass
Searching for Caleb
Ladder of Years
Breathing Lessons
Clock Dance
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
A Patchwork Planet
Noah's Compass
Searching for Caleb
Anonymous
06/21/2024 22:16
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
Anonymous wrote:Haven’t read it, but the NYT just favorably reviewed Sandwich, which seems to fit your category.
I'm 3/4 through Sandwich and I never want it to end. So good!
Anonymous
06/21/2024 21:58
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
Liane Moriarty! if you do audiobooks, the reader of hers is the icing on a great cake.
Anonymous
06/21/2024 21:28
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
These are great! Thanks so much!
Anonymous
06/21/2024 12:14
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
Strangers and cousins by Leah Hager Cohen
The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward
The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward
Anonymous
06/21/2024 11:30
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
Anonymous
06/21/2024 11:25
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
Circe! Did you do Circe yet?
Anonymous
06/21/2024 11:19
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
Anonymous wrote:I just came across the term “Hen Lit,” and it seems to sum up a genre I’ve been enjoying (and seeking more of) these past few years:
- contemporary fiction (rather than historical);
- centering female main character(s) aged 45-60 (midlife);
- lots of focus on the character(s)’ inner life/identity/sense of self, independent of romance/marriage/kids (though they’re often plot points, too);
-sometimes funny/light or sometimes more serious/heavy - I’ve enjoyed both.
Here are a few I’ve enjoyed. I’d love other recommendations:
- The Second Ending, by Michelle Hoffman
- Johanna Porter is Not Sorry, by Sara Read
- Waywards, by Dana Spiotta
- Calling Invisible Women, by Jeanne Ray
- Sylvia’s Second Act, by Hillary Yablon (currently reading)
The only one of the books you mention that I have read is Calling Invisible Women. Because I enjoyed that book, I bought another book by the same author (Ann Padgett's mom). The other one I read was about a woman who keeps thinking perhaps she is done raising a family and she and her spouse can finally retire and travel, but something always comes up. That book was called Step Ball Change. I think all of her books are about women in the 45- 60 age range.
Anonymous
06/21/2024 11:07
Subject: Re:Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
The Wall, by Marlen Haushofer.
It is about a woman who has adult children. And quite by accident, seems to have ended up as the last human alive on earth. She has a dog and a cow for company.
It is about a woman who has adult children. And quite by accident, seems to have ended up as the last human alive on earth. She has a dog and a cow for company.
Anonymous
06/21/2024 10:55
Subject: Re:Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
Try books by Elizabeth Berg.
I have only read 4 books by her. But all four of them were about finding a new balance as an older person. Perhaps all her books are along those lines.
I have only read 4 books by her. But all four of them were about finding a new balance as an older person. Perhaps all her books are along those lines.
Anonymous
06/20/2024 17:14
Subject: Re:Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
Jennifer Weiner and Elin Hilderbrand's books might fit that criteria
Anonymous
06/20/2024 13:54
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
The Woman who went to Bed for a Year, Sue Townsend
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Lisa See (might not exactly fit your definition, but is a great book)
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Lisa See (might not exactly fit your definition, but is a great book)
Anonymous
06/20/2024 13:50
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
Haven’t read it, but the NYT just favorably reviewed Sandwich, which seems to fit your category.
Anonymous
06/20/2024 13:36
Subject: Seeking “Hen Lit” Recommendations (a.k.a. Chick Lit, but older)
I just came across the term “Hen Lit,” and it seems to sum up a genre I’ve been enjoying (and seeking more of) these past few years:
- contemporary fiction (rather than historical);
- centering female main character(s) aged 45-60 (midlife);
- lots of focus on the character(s)’ inner life/identity/sense of self, independent of romance/marriage/kids (though they’re often plot points, too);
-sometimes funny/light or sometimes more serious/heavy - I’ve enjoyed both.
Here are a few I’ve enjoyed. I’d love other recommendations:
- The Second Ending, by Michelle Hoffman
- Johanna Porter is Not Sorry, by Sara Read
- Waywards, by Dana Spiotta
- Calling Invisible Women, by Jeanne Ray
- Sylvia’s Second Act, by Hillary Yablon (currently reading)
- contemporary fiction (rather than historical);
- centering female main character(s) aged 45-60 (midlife);
- lots of focus on the character(s)’ inner life/identity/sense of self, independent of romance/marriage/kids (though they’re often plot points, too);
-sometimes funny/light or sometimes more serious/heavy - I’ve enjoyed both.
Here are a few I’ve enjoyed. I’d love other recommendations:
- The Second Ending, by Michelle Hoffman
- Johanna Porter is Not Sorry, by Sara Read
- Waywards, by Dana Spiotta
- Calling Invisible Women, by Jeanne Ray
- Sylvia’s Second Act, by Hillary Yablon (currently reading)