Women authors are dogged by insinuations of unseriousness and by gauzy, chick-lit covers that set them apart from their male counterparts.
My only caveat is the book's rather silly chick-lit cover.
At the very centre of a conurbation of 24 million, that reaches out beyond Kyoto and Kobe, is the giant entertainment district of Namba, a network of neon-lit, covered arcades that spreads over several square miles.
I'd be the first to admit it's not an infallible method: with a label like a 90s chick-lit cover as designed by Primark, Miss Vicky Fleurie would never have made the cut, for example, despite the flowing, pretty, red-fruited contents being utterly delightful and true to the character of Beaujolais' Fleurie region.
"It's fluffy," she told me, indicating the telltale chick-lit cover art, "but she's Irish, so it feels less trashy". Ten years later, I've read at least 11 of Keyes' novels.
They are how Olympians reward themselves for success, and the default shorthand of every chick-lit book cover.
The lab covers an area of 3,500m2, its vast yellow-lit space divided into glass sections littered with hard drives and disembodied prosthetic limbs.
A cover of The Dovers' gleaming garage pop nugget She's Gone is faultless, and a run through Before Today's Rockin' Ramrods cover Bright Lit Blue Skies finally sees Pink properly engaging with the crowd, who sway gratefully in response.
Both 8GB and 16GB models pack a 7-inch 1280×800 HD display (216 ppi) back-lit IPS display covered in "Scratch-resistant Corning glass".
On the first morning I awoke in my four-hundred-year-old bedroom and threw open the shutters to look out over a golden vista of sun-lit rolling hills covered with olive trees.
