Five Days in Palawan
Rating: ★★★★ Category: Books Genre: Literature & Fiction Author: Zara A. Irigo Under the traditional or conventional mode, "Five Days in Palawan" is categorized under Literature & Fiction. But in today's hip world dominated by themes of strong women personalities, as typified in the long-running and award-winning TV series Ally MacBeal, book classifications have somehow given way to other classifications, if only to truly reflect contemporary realities. Thus, the book is categorized as "Chick Lit." And as a new, non-conventional genre, "Chick Lit" description can only be found in such avant garde source as Wikipedia which defines it as a genre of fiction written for and marketed to young women, especially single, working women in their twenties and thirties, which features an airy, sometimes irreverent tone, and themes of frank sexuality*. This "in-your-face-type" of aggressive female behavior is immediately apparent in the very fir...