<div dir="ltr">I like <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> "Boy/Girl/Friends" -- I know my teen son would balk at the term "courting," even though he has enjoyed reading a few of those books.</span></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Abbie Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aanderson@cclsd.org" target="_blank">aanderson@cclsd.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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"Friendship and Courting" is a great descriptor. Do you need
something snappier, and/or easier to fit on a label? "Friends and
Feelings" is probably too literal and too obvious. <br>
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How about "Boy/Girl/Friends"? That could cover "me and my friends
and our girlfriends and boyfriends" for all the gender variants and
relationship variants. Maybe? Or the perhaps already passe "BFs,
GFs, BFFs".<br>
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Abbie<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I like Lisa's "Friendship and Courting" a lot - it
really sums up the subject matter. If you want to be boring, but
have some flexibility "From a Female POV" and "From a Male POV."<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Lisa
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Hi
Stacy! I agree that the term “Chick Lit” is limiting
to the varied readers who enjoyed it, or would if
they gave it a chance. Are you going to be labeling
the books or just putting them into different
sections? Maybe you can make a category up if you
don’t have to choose a specific sticker. How about
“Friendship and Courting?”
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Stacy Johns [mailto:<a href="mailto:s.johns@newportlibrary.org" target="_blank">s.johns@newportlibrary.org</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 08, 2014 10:19 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [OYAN] Chicklit vs. ?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m working on splitting my
smallish (2000 item) YA section into genres, and
one of the genres is, in essence “CHICK LIT.”
(It’s light, it focuses as much or more on
friendship than romance, it can sometimes be a
little bit steamy, it’s often humorous.)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have mixed feeling about the
term-- between “it’s derogatory” and “it is what
it is”—plus there are boys who like them, and
books with male main characters, gay or straight.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any thoughts on alternative
terminology for the signs? Or a defense of the
term “Chick lit”? What do y’all think?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks much!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Stacy Johns</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">YA Collection Development</p>
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