reading recommendations?

I have a decent-sized stack of fairly academic (cause when you start delving into specific issues, you get more and more academic books) feminist books waiting for me to read. Looking forward to them.

But. I've been reading a lot of fiction, so I'd like to ease into my serious reading with some lighter feministy stuff.

Which is where you come in: got any suggestions? I've looked at a variety of the standard bookstore offerings, and they're appropriately light but also look like they'll piss me off for their failure to have a truly feministy attitude towards sex, or kids, or work, or even in some cases gender. I need fun feministy reading!

fat actress?

You're probably exactly the wrong crowd to ask this question, given that I'm probably more of a teevee watcher than all y'all put together. But I'll ask anyhow: any of you seen Fat Actress?

We don't have Showtime, and I was honestly not all that interested [I really don't care for Kirstie Alley, and she has never been a candidate for big fat media icon in my book.], but with all the kerfuffle in the fat activist community about it, I went ahead and watched the damned pilot on Yahoo (available via the BFB post on the topic).

My verdict: It is ass. But just because it's a truly, truly stupid (and thus, in my mind, also unfunny) piece of badly acted schtick. I really do think it's supposed to parody the ridiculous race, gender and size stereotypes it presents; it's like Chris Rock, but less incisive and smart. A lot of other fat activists have been really offended as they watched the show, though - very hurt and defensive in their responses to the stereotypes (you know, fat lady eating cheeseburgers in her pjs in her car kinds of things). Is it because fat is such a contentious area? Because the stereotypes people accept as truth about fat folk are so ridiculous already that you can't really go over the top enough to make it clearly parody? Or just because the show's so patently not funny?

I don't know, but clearly it's not as dismissable a show as I thought.. What do you think?