Crossroads discussion

A Month of Sundays by Liz Byrski
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble


Anymore ?

I had never heard of chook-lit before! There is a shelf on GR dedicated to it, though.

I hadn't either...but when I googled it it cam up as farm lit. So am not sure how that relates to Dark Flood Rises.

Karin wrote: "I had never heard of chook-lit before! There is a shelf on GR dedicated to it, though."

AWW and I thought I came up with the term! Any other titles or link to GR shelf, please.

SIGH : the GR chook-lit titles I found by Googling, are all, as far as I can see, just a name change from chick-lit.

What can we call it to denote books about older women, that are really well written?

Well, I for one am in favour of taking back the word 'crone' and turning it into a positive.

Lesley wrote: "Karin wrote: "I had never heard of chook-lit before! There is a shelf on GR dedicated to it, though."

AWW and I thought I came up with the term! Any other titles or link to GR shelf, please."

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Storyheart wrote: "Well, I for one am in favour of taking back the word 'crone' and turning it into a positive."

Interesting. I am not fond of that word, personally, as I don't like how it sounds (I don't like the word gorgeous, either), nor do I want to be called a crone as I age, even in jest. Or hag. Probably because I've heard both crone and hag used as insults, too.

However, whatever the majority wants is fine. Just putting in my 2 cents.

PS I quite enjoy this poem and sometimes joke that I'm going to wear red hats with purple coats when I am geriatric even though the women in my family tend to not do that (but that's my mother's generation). But then I've always liked wearing purple and my dad is eccentric, so I may end up more like him.

https://barbados.org/poetry/wheniam.htm

Storyheart wrote: "Well, I for one am in favour of taking back the word 'crone' and turning it into a positive."

Here in OZ in my circle, we do use crone as as a complimentary word, meaning 'wise-woman'.. I have also long used: 'not bad for an old chook', when friends say 'how are you?'... mind you we are less formal....

Karin wrote: "PS I quite enjoy this poem and sometimes joke that I'm going to wear red hats with purple coats when I am geriatric even though the women in my family tend to not do that (but that's my mother's ge..."

Yes, that is a beauty.