I thought we had covered the plight of singletons in every way from TV shows such as This Life, Friends and Sex and the City as well as films like Bridget Jones and Waiting to Exhale. But now we have a new kid on the block in the form of 35 and Ticking which is a movie about four friends who are reaching that [...]
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International Chick Lit Month: Retro Review – Waiting to Exhale
2For many people Bridget Jones was the first Chick Flick movie but as far as I am concerned it was Waiting to Exhale that put the genre on the map. Based on the best-selling book by Terry McMillan, this movie set the world alight when it was released in 1996. I was in the cinema watching with my [...]
Disappearing Acts
4Disappearing Acts by Terry McMillan, two chapters later I was hooked. The thing about Terry is that she wrote in a way that spoke to modern men and women and that witty banter style was something that was unique in the 90s. Disappearing Acts is about a love story between Zora Banks and Franklin Swift, [...]