http://www.christinecoleman.net/fat-heroines-fat-women-3-categories-books/ Writing Matters Fri, 18 May 2012 12:38:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.christinecoleman.net/fat-heroines-fat-women-3-categories-books/comment-page-1/#comment-1314 admin Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:57:33 +0000 http://www.christinecoleman.net/?p=803#comment-1314 Thank you for this thoughtful comment - I'm in full agreement with you that there are many more than 3 categories, but I think these are quite useful as a starting point for further classification. If I did set off down that road I'd be going round in circles, and branching off all over the place. Why have I suddenly had an image of the Mandlebrott Set in my head? I'm no good at maths - my school put us firmly into one of two boxes, ('Science' or' Art') but in recent years I've been reading up on some of the things I'd missed out on entirely. I still not much good at maths, but I now have some understanding of how and why it works at higher levels- and I get very excited when I come across beautiful theories. Physical Beauty and ideas thereof- Mmm I can't claim to have explored this at any great depth, but it might give readers some light food for thought! Thank you for this thoughtful comment - I’m in full agreement with you that there are many more than 3 categories, but I think these are quite useful as a starting point for further classification. If I did set off down that road I’d be going round in circles, and branching off all over the place. Why have I suddenly had an image of the Mandlebrott Set in my head? I’m no good at maths - my school put us firmly into one of two boxes, (’Science’ or’ Art’) but in recent years I’ve been reading up on some of the things I’d missed out on entirely. I still not much good at maths, but I now have some understanding of how and why it works at higher levels- and I get very excited when I come across beautiful theories.
Physical Beauty and ideas thereof- Mmm I can’t claim to have explored this at any great depth, but it might give readers some light food for thought!

]]> http://www.christinecoleman.net/fat-heroines-fat-women-3-categories-books/comment-page-1/#comment-1313 litlove Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:57:27 +0000 http://www.christinecoleman.net/?p=803#comment-1313 R. J. Ellory is one of those writers I keep meaning to read and then forget about. I like the division into three, as the tendency is often to split book categories into just two - mass market and literary - whereas there are probably more categories than three if you think about it! I don't read much chick lit because I think it's very tied to stages of life. I don't want to read about young single women trying to find a husband because I'm not there myself, but I'm always interested in more profound books that start to question why beauty is seen as so important and why women's self-esteem oscillates so wildly according to genre and fashion. I read one Mavis Cheek whose title I now can't recall, and enjoyed it quite a lot. Good luck with exploring the prominence of beauty in your own novel - it's something we seriously need to think about. R. J. Ellory is one of those writers I keep meaning to read and then forget about. I like the division into three, as the tendency is often to split book categories into just two - mass market and literary - whereas there are probably more categories than three if you think about it! I don’t read much chick lit because I think it’s very tied to stages of life. I don’t want to read about young single women trying to find a husband because I’m not there myself, but I’m always interested in more profound books that start to question why beauty is seen as so important and why women’s self-esteem oscillates so wildly according to genre and fashion. I read one Mavis Cheek whose title I now can’t recall, and enjoyed it quite a lot. Good luck with exploring the prominence of beauty in your own novel - it’s something we seriously need to think about.

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