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FROM: Patricia Gibson <[removed]@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 3:33 PM

Hi to all of you Wordsmiths!
I need to find a non-pejorative heading for a 'Chic Lit' book list I have
put together - you know, for the young-single-woman-in-the-city type of
books. Sex in the City just won't do! Can you help me find a catchy,
politically-correct title?
Thanks.

Patricia Gibson
Readers' Advisor
TNRD Library System
100-465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca
http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca

FROM: Kaite Mediatore <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 4:26 PM

Patricia,
I put together a list like this and called it "Friends of
Bridget". But how about "Smart, Single and Surviving"?

Kaite

--- Patricia Gibson <[removed]@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca> wrote:
> Hi to all of you Wordsmiths!
> I need to find a non-pejorative heading for a 'Chic Lit'
> book list I have
> put together - you know, for the
> young-single-woman-in-the-city type of
> books. Sex in the City just won't do! Can you help me
> find a catchy,
> politically-correct title?
> Thanks.
>
> Patricia Gibson
> Readers' Advisor
> TNRD Library System
> 100-465 Victoria Street
> Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
> [removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca
> http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca
>
>
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FROM: "Kelly Benson" <[removed]@htls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 4:36 PM

>Hi to all of you Wordsmiths!
>I need to find a non-pejorative heading for a 'Chic Lit' book list I have
>put together - you know, for the young-single-woman-in-the-city type of
>books. Sex in the City just won't do! Can you help me find a catchy,
>politically-correct title?
>

So far the only thing I can think of is Single in the City. Not too
imaginative, but descriptive and to the point.


Hope it helps a little!


Kelly Benson
Adult Services Librarian
Three Rivers Public Library District
Channahon, Illinois

FROM: "Linda Lundquist" <[removed]@mediaone.net>
REC'D: 2/1/01, 7:02 PM

Politically correct, hmmm? ... so I guess "Babes in the'Burbs" wouldn't
work? ... or "Metropolitan Mamas?" ... "Sexy Sophisticates?" ... "Erudite
Urbanites?"

(somebody please stop me!)

Linda Lundquist
Youth Services Librarian
Bartlett Public Library

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/1/01, 11:14 PM

In a message dated 2/1/2001 4:29:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca writes:

<<
Hi to all of you Wordsmiths!
I need to find a non-pejorative heading for a 'Chic Lit' book list I have
put together - you know, for the young-single-woman-in-the-city type of
books. Sex in the City just won't do! Can you help me find a catchy,
politically-correct title?
Thanks.

Patricia Gibson
Readers' Advisor
TNRD Library System
100-465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca
http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca
>>

Off the top of my head - "What Women Want..."

BTW - thought of a title for a non-existent but perhaps future book display:

"Read 'Em and Weep" (for tearjerkers, books that tug at the
heartstrings, etc.)


Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/2/01, 7:43 AM

"Friends of Bridget Jones"?
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FROM: Robin Harwood <[removed]@dupagels.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/5/01, 12:09 PM

How about "The Beauty of Brains: Books by Women for Women"?

-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia Gibson [[removed]@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 2:30 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: 'Chic Lit' help

Hi to all of you Wordsmiths!
I need to find a non-pejorative heading for a 'Chic Lit' book list I have
put together - you know, for the young-single-woman-in-the-city type of
books. Sex in the City just won't do! Can you help me find a catchy,
politically-correct title?
Thanks.

Patricia Gibson
Readers' Advisor
TNRD Library System
100-465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca
http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca

FROM: Patricia Gibson <[removed]@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca>
REC'D: 2/24/01, 6:26 PM

Thanks to all of you who helped me with a non-pejorative phrase for my chic
lit book list. I went with 'Single in the City.'

Patricia Gibson
Readers' Advisor
TNRD Library System
100-465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca
http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca

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