Sentence examples for bad lit from inspiring English sources

From lad lit to dad lit to bad lit, men have been barraged with an array of reading matter since Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary stormed up the bestseller lists and into our lives in 1997.

The real names of her bad lit-world suitors, which have been changed in the book and are certain to stir up a round of Gawker speculation, are offered up instantly, though she asks that they remain off the record.

Breaking up isn't so hard to do when it means freedom from inane critical commentary, political maneuvering, hurt feelings, bad chick lit and even worse chardonnay.

"Two thousand copies isn't bad for lit fic, is the first thing to say," he said, adding that a number of copies had also been sold via the publisher's own website, and as ebooks.

Rebus complaint Marian Keyes, the bestselling Irish novelist, in London to launch her latest inimitable instalment of "feel-bad" chick-lit, 'The Brightest Star in the Sky', told me she was an avid reader of crime fiction.

The co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Amy Pascal, who green-lit "Bad Teacher" — which stars Cameron Diaz as a pot-smoking, student-cursing educator — views it as a litmus test: "It's a comedy about a woman who behaves badly, who's slackerish and unapologetically cynical in the exact way that audiences loved seeing Bill Murray.

This certainly would be a bad way to smuggle lit cigars.

Thus the tone is set: The Wrong Knickers emerges as post-Girls, don't-call-me-chick-lit, complete with bad breath, trying to find its tights in a strange bedroom in the morning.

I love the bad composition in a fluorescent-lit break room.

Eventually a kilt-wearing bagpiper summons guests to dinner (think Angus beef, smoked salmon, haggis-trust me, it's not bad) around an enormous mahogany table lit by brass candelabras.

A study published in the journal Body Image in 2013 suggested reading chick-lit can make women feel bad about their bodies and in turn, lower their self-esteem.