Mothering › Forums › Natural Family Living › Books, Music and Other Media › please help me survive bedrest
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

please help me survive bedrest  

post #1 of 28
11/13/06 at 9:54pm
Thread Starter 
Okay, so I've landed myself on modified bedrest because of preterm contractions with my twins, and I'm going insane. I've read all my books, and I am looking for suggestions so I can send DH to the library. I like historical fiction, and I like fantasy, and I look good contemporary novels, but I've read most of the "big name" stuff. I don't have the patience right now to deal with overly complicated or literary stuff; looking for lighter reading. What are your favorites? Thanks!
post #2 of 28
11/13/06 at 10:05pm
I like anything by Kinky Friedman and Louis DeBerniere's. A great classic mystery is The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. I used to miss my subway stops reading that!
post #3 of 28
11/13/06 at 10:09pm
Anything by Sharon Shinn. I love all of her stuff. If you like SciFi at all, try Robert Sawyer, though his most recent stuff is getting a little preachy. Good luck with the bedrest, I know it's not easy.
post #4 of 28
11/13/06 at 10:27pm
Quote:
I like historical fiction, and I like fantasy, and I look good contemporary novels, but I've read most of the "big name" stuff.
Oh, my cue: have you read the Outlander books by Diana Gabaldon? They are big, fat books but not hard to follow.
post #5 of 28
11/13/06 at 11:44pm
since you like historical fiction, i would highly recommend "the birth of venus" by sarah dunant. it's one of my personal favs, lots of plot twists, funny at times, and very moving.
post #6 of 28
11/14/06 at 12:03pm
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone.
Sharon Shinn - Summers at Castle Auburn. I quoted it in my first signature.
Allan W. Eckert - the wilderness series. Oops, you said historical fiction, that's fictionalized history.
Lindsey Davis - Marcus Didius Falco series. Begins with "Silver Pigs."
Lindsey Davis - Course of Honor. Revitalized history.
Joan Wolf - Daughter of the Red Deer. Prehistoric fiction.
Sue Harrison - My Sister the Moon from the first trilogy.
- - Song of the River or Cry of the Wind from the storyteller trilogy.
Better than the above.
? ? - Follow the River. I never could find the book so I didn't read it.
Then I noticed it was available as a movie, so it's still out there.
? ? - The Glass Harmonica. Fantasy.
post #7 of 28
11/14/06 at 12:29pm
of course I'm going to recommend Harry Potter. I swear they're my favorite books.

post #8 of 28
11/14/06 at 3:19pm
If you like mysterys Laura Childs Tea Shop Mysteries are fun and fast reads. I also recommend Harry Potter as they are 100* better then the movies and are NOT just for kids!

Also, Snow Flower & the Secret Fan was great, it was set in China, also Empress Orchid was very good. One of my all time favorte books is The God of Small Things.
post #9 of 28
11/14/06 at 3:33pm
"Coming Home" by Rosamunde Pilcher.

I love this book so much. Set during late 30s and WWII in England.

I also second (or third) Harry Potter.
post #10 of 28
11/14/06 at 5:51pm
I am scanning my bookshelves for little known books that I loved-

One Thousand White Women-Jim Fergus
historical fiction set in early 1800s

The Book of Bright Ideas-Sandra Kring
funny and sad

I second Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
the summer of 2003 is known as the Outlander Summer in my house because my nose was stuck in a book half the time

Charms For The Easy Life- Kate Gibbons
midwife-folkmedicine-women- 1800s

Wise Child
Juniper
both by Monica Furlong
YA section

Where The Heart Is - Billie Letts

Shark Dialogues
historical fiction set in Hawaii

Bitter Grounds
historical fiction set in Columbia coffee plantation

Healing Blessings,
Traci

Mom to 3 homebirthed boys 16,13, &11
post #11 of 28
11/14/06 at 7:06pm
Thread Starter 
Thank you, mamas! I've read a few of those (including Gabaldon and Harry Potter!!!) but there's still a nice long list that I haven't read. I'm on my way to the library website to put holds on some of them. Good thing, too, because I just finished my last book and I'm desperate!

And keep them coming!!!! 'cause I read pretty fast and I have a long, long 10 weeks to go before it's safe to let these babies come!
post #12 of 28
11/14/06 at 7:12pm
the chronicles of narnia

the dark materials trilogy - philip pullman

the curious incident of the dog at midnight
post #13 of 28
11/14/06 at 7:15pm
Jean M. Auel's 5 book Earth's Children's series:
Clan of the Cave Bear
The Valley Of Horses
The Mammoth Hunters
The Plains of Passage
The Shelters of Stone

They got me thru my hospital stay when I had to have radiation treatment.

Also 2 of my favorite authors they both write mysteries
Sue Grafton she is writing a series based on the alphabet. She is currently up to S. She writes them in the first person (love reading books like that) The main character is a private investagator named Kinsey Millhone.

Lillian Jackson Braun also mysteries but with a twist the main character James Qwilleran has 2 unique helpers, Siamese cats, Ko Ko and Yumm Yumm, who give him clues to help solve the mystery.
post #14 of 28
11/15/06 at 3:41pm
The Benjamin January mystery series by Barbara Hambly. Series takes place in 1830's New Orleans.
post #15 of 28
11/15/06 at 4:13pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by oliversmum2000 View Post
the curious incident of the dog at midnight
the dog in the night time. : Sorry. Anal retentive here. :

Anyhoo, yeah that one. And HP. And Narnia. And Dan Brown's books The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons are good too.
post #16 of 28
11/15/06 at 4:25pm
Utter fluff: Miss Read's books about Thrushgreen, Fairacre, et al.
Fluff with mysteries: Charleotte Macleod (aka Alisa Craig)


Also, if there are going to be times when you want to read but have almost no attention span, try Azumanga Daioh
post #17 of 28
11/15/06 at 6:40pm
Oh! It makes my heart glad to see Wilkie Collins listed here! My husband introduced me to his books over ten years ago and I've read nearly all of his work.

On topic: a light series that I enjoyed was the detective series by Alexander MacCall Smith. It starts with "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency." It's about an amazing woman in Botswana who starts her own detective agency. They are quick but engrossing. I enjoyed them all.
post #18 of 28
11/15/06 at 10:27pm
"Clean" romance:
Aola Vandergriff - Daughters of... series.
Aola Vandergriff - Wyndspelle series.

Follow the River is true history.

Perhaps the detective series set in the Navajo culture - Tony Hillerman.

The last book of Harrison's storyteller trilogy - Call Down the Stars.
post #19 of 28
11/16/06 at 10:54pm
cane river, by l. tademy
stones from the river, by u. hegi
kingsolver's poisonwood bible
post #20 of 28
11/17/06 at 5:38pm
I wandered around a bookstore at lunchtime and thought of you. Here are some more:

Reading Lolita in Tehran, by A. Nafisi
The Amazing Adventures of kavalier & clay
Monk's Bee Season
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Books, Music and Other Media
This thread is locked  
Mothering › Forums › Natural Family Living › Books, Music and Other Media › please help me survive bedrest