How cool! Diane Shipley featured me on Memoir Armoire, her book review blog, the other day. It’s always so flattering when I find out that someone I’ve read has read me too. This is the perfect example of one of those instances.
A couple years ago, I read a piece Diane wrote for The Guardian. She lamented the chick-lit style covers that publishers slapped on to all women’s literature with zero regard to the actual content of the book. If I ever publish a memoir — which Diane seems to have more faith in than even I do! — I will absolutely NOT sign off on anything pink-colored or involving small dogs (even if I do like the former and own the latter). That, my dear readers, is my promise to you. Check out her blog post, an excerpt of which follows:
Confession: when I hear the words “sex blogger”, I cringe a little. I’ve never bought into that whole “having loads of sex for the sake of it is super-feminist” myth.
But while Lena Chen became famous for her blog The Sex and the Ivy (about her sex life at Harvard) she doesn’t subscribe to the idea that having sex with a lot of people is in itself feminist. She’s more interested in challenging our expectations about sex, gender, and sexuality, like with her conference, Rethinking Virginity… [read full post here]
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And now I’m flattered! (This could go on...while…) Thanks
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How cool! Diane Shipley featured me on Memoir Armoire, her book review blog, the other day. It’s always so flattering...
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