UK Literary Luvvies

Status
Thread locked. We start a new thread when they have over 1000 posts, click the blue button to see all threads for this topic and find the latest open thread.
1 Sort by date Sort by reaction score 2
LaBlonde said:
i love curtis sittenfeld - american wife is truly one of my favourite books, i really liked the paper palace until the last ten pages.

i wasn’t a huge fan of the four winds though; kristin hannah is very readable but i find her character building a little lacking sometimes. they’re always enjoyable enough reads though.

i would add kate atkinson to this list too - imo she’s one of the best living british authors (or certainly the best living female one). her characters, her world building, is all excellent.
Click to expand...
Oh I loooovvvvveeeeddd Rodham and American Wife so much. I didn’t love Prep as much, but I think that’s because I’d just read I Am Charlotte Simmons and it felt a bit like a cut price version of that.
 
Bella Mackie's first husband is ridiculously camp. I remember watching a clip of him giving some talk and he pinged to high heaven. I can't remember his name and bizarrely I cannot find any info on him, that's after searching all her aliases. They were in a relationship for years, married and then divorced only a couple months later. I seem to remember her writing about it, so not hushed up, so why isn't google returning results? :confused:
 
Spilttea said:
Cue a book deal, a podcast and a road show. The guests will all be the same women and they will all have their own ever so slightly different (but same) book/show/pod to promote.
Click to expand...
I know. I'm post menopausal and am now amazed at the amount of women slightly younger than me cashing in. And acting as though they are the first. Of course the appalling Moran, and Davina McCall has made it her thing with accompanying *sad face* when talking about it. All going on about 'it's such a taboo subject' - is it? It certainly was but now?
 
Jelly Bean said:
I know. I'm post menopausal and am now amazed at the amount of women slightly younger than me cashing in. And acting as though they are the first. Of course the appalling Moran, and Davina McCall has made it her thing with accompanying *sad face* when talking about it. All going on about 'it's such a taboo subject' - is it? It certainly was but now?
Click to expand...

It’s all about £££, Boots have a skincare range for menopausal women and even stores like Primark are doing nightwear and lounge clothing for menopausal women.
I can’t bear Moran and her brand of feminism, half expecting her next book to be about it.
 
Pipsy said:
Bella Mackie's first husband is ridiculously camp. I remember watching a clip of him giving some talk and he pinged to high heaven. I can't remember his name and bizarrely I cannot find any info on him, that's after searching all her aliases. They were in a relationship for years, married and then divorced only a couple months later. I seem to remember her writing about it, so not hushed up, so why isn't google returning results? :confused:
Click to expand...

i’m so glad someone else remembers this!

his name has been wiped from any article about her - there’s a few where she mentions her first marriage and how awful it was (though one where she claims they didn’t know each other long, which i’m sure isn’t right) but you can’t find his name anywhere. how strange!!
 
Wow, I'm just so funny and, you know - relatable, hahahaha!!! And oh look, an extract from MY upcoming book, which is just a collection of my essays, published in this very right wing weekend mag hahahahaha!!!! (And daddy's friend got me good job there too - Christmas gift coming your way Uncle Rupert!) How to make money without doing ANY work hahahahaha!!!!!!!!! God, EVERYONE wants to be me!!!! (Link to mournful Spotify playlist to go with the book in my stories xxxxx)

Screenshot_20221009-121036.png
 
jenmarks said:
Wow, I'm just so funny and, you know - relatable, hahahaha!!! And oh look, an extract from MY upcoming book, which is just a collection of my essays, published in this very right wing weekend mag hahahahaha!!!! (And daddy's friend got me good job there too - Christmas gift coming your way Uncle Rupert!) How to make money without doing ANY work hahahahaha!!!!!!!!! God, EVERYONE wants to be me!!!! (Link to mournful Spotify playlist to go with the book in my stories xxxxx)

View attachment 1637246
Click to expand...

“the nation’s favourite agony aunt”?!? to what nation?!

(also, god tier sandwich choice there 👌🏻)
 
LaBlonde said:
i’m so glad someone else remembers this!

his name has been wiped from any article about her - there’s a few where she mentions her first marriage and how awful it was (though one where she claims they didn’t know each other long, which i’m sure isn’t right) but you can’t find his name anywhere. how strange!!
Click to expand...
I'm glad you remember too! I misremembered them knowing each other for years. Disjointed because copying and pasting different bits.

At 28, I met someone who scooped me up and rushed me towards a future. Within three months we were living together and celebrating our engagement. I gave little care as to whether this was the relationship I wanted, or if I was merely seeking any relationship. The wedding came and went. As did the marriage. In less than a year we were done... In the weeks after my husband walked out...

I remember him being a journalist. Guardian too maybe? I seem to remember a beard, maybe glasses? Bald head? I thought him unattractive. I seem to remember he was older than her too, tho not hugely. 10 years? Maybe this jogs someone's memories.
 
Last edited:
Sorry for anyone who wants a more general focus, but have come from the old thread which focused deeply on Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes :)
It's interesting how Dolly had the best times of her life not at uni but after uni? In a period in a London flatshare where she didn't have a real job. I didn't like that period of my life at all, was so unsure about my future
 
soph30 said:
Sorry for anyone who wants a more general focus, but have come from the old thread which focused deeply on Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes :)
It's interesting how Dolly had the best times of her life not at uni but after uni? In a period in a London flatshare where she didn't have a real job. I didn't like that period of my life at all, was so unsure about my future
Click to expand...
I think she didn’t love her uni years and perhaps made the wrong subject choice. It seems like she found her feet with her masters and then had that fun uni time after. I agree with you though, I found that time so stressful. I think that if you don’t have ma and pa’s money and contacts to keep you afloat it is terrifying to be out of the structure of education and fully fending for yourself. Especially as the job market was so competitive then (I’m sure it still is for graduates but I graduated around the same time as Dolly and paid writing jobs were very thin on the ground).
 
They are ridiculous on the whole but occasionally I feel like one is well deserved when someone really pushes things forwards/ excels in their field. A random example but Scott mills got one from Southhampton I think and he really is brilliant at his job. He didn’t go to uni and worked his way up in the industry. There’s probably not a lot he doesn’t know about popular broadcasting so I feel in that case - well deserved. I’m Dolly’s case, not sure she has done anything new or got to the top of her field. As you say, she already has a relevant degree and masters so she is doing what she has trained to do, no extra pat on the back needed.

edited for ridiculous number of typos
 
Status
Thread locked. We start a new thread when they have over 1000 posts, click the blue button to see all threads for this topic and find the latest open thread.
Back
Top