[OT] Sickbed reading
Sophie
grumble, because it's been lovely slobbing around wrapped in a quilt,
drinking hot ribena and re-reading favourite paperbacks. I love detective
novels, and I've been re-reading all the Sue Grafton alphabet mysteries.
Nice and undemanding, and I'd mostly forgotten who-dunnit.
Anyway, it's got me wondering what everyone here likes to read for
pleasure - we're a pretty mixed bunch, and I bet we've got a wide range of
tastes. Anyone want to recommend their favourite novels?
Sophie
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Anything by Maeve Binchy. It's funny you should ask this because i was
looking for something to read last night, and i fell across my Stephen King
collection. I haven't picked up one of his books in years and it made me
realize how much my tastes are changing. I no longer like the gore and
horror that i used to read all the time and i now prefer "feel good" books
that do just that, make me feel good. Maeve is one of my favorite new
authors, so much so that everytime i pass the used book store i have to pop
in and see if they have anything new! I definitely recommend her as a nice
light read!
Marianne <----- where did i put that Virginia Henley historical romance??
(my other favorite)
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Chococat34
Sure! My favs are
*the pilots wife
*the kitchen gods wife
*learning to play god (I think thats the title... its about an ER doc)
and finally... hehe howard sterns private parts. hey, its entertaining! :P
Sarah
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nuval
when I do I like Joanna Trollope, Lesley Glaister and Kathleen Rowntree :) I
used to love science fiction and historical novels but can't stand them now!
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Mysti Krantz
to her novels. Right now, I'm reading Body of Evdience. It's great!
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>> Well, guys, I am on the road to recovery after my throat thing, and I
>can't
>> grumble, because it's been lovely slobbing around wrapped in a quilt,
>> drinking hot ribena and re-reading favourite paperbacks. I love detective
>> novels, and I've been re-reading all the Sue Grafton alphabet mysteries.
>> Nice and undemanding, and I'd mostly forgotten who-dunnit.
>>
>> Anyway, it's got me wondering what everyone here likes to read for
>> pleasure - we're a pretty mixed bunch, and I bet we've got a wide range of
>> tastes. Anyone want to recommend their favourite novels?
>>
If you like detective novels look for books by P D James (I am
currently reading her "Fragment of Autobiography"), Ruth Rendell and -
aargh - another CRAFT moment - author's name gone but her dectetive is
V I Warshinski
I haven't had to spend a lot of time in bed reading lately (darn ,
that flu shot really worked!) but I have all of Len Deighton and John
le Carre and could easily start with the first one in each cannon and
work my way through again.
Everyone seems to buy each new John Grisham as soon as it comes out -
and Scott Turow - though he has not been as proilific
I cannot resist library building but I cannot afford to buy all the
new books I'd like (fortunately we have a very good library in
Richmond) - but there is a wonderful range of classic reprints so
every so often I buy one of those books I feel I ought to know about.
You know, the sort that are on "100 great books" lists. They are cheap
but often huge - and very good for long plane trips, which is nearly
the same as a sick bed. As a form of self discipline I do not allow
myself to buy more than one at a time, and won't buy another until I
have read it all the way through - or given up (which sad to say is
more frequent) The one exception being Jane Austen. I bought the set
having seen one of the recent movies (no I don't remember which one
now) and read the lot. Wonderful.
Stephen Rees
Richmond BC Canada
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andy gee
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> pleasure - we're a pretty mixed bunch, and I bet we've got a wide range of
> tastes. Anyone want to recommend their favourite novels?
for sickbed reading, anything by wittgenstein, of course. saves me the
trouble of taking demerol. if i ever had a long convalescence, i've got all
6 volumes of a la recherche a temps perdu ready and waiting, hopefully the
set will retain its honor for some time to come.
but lately, i've discovered the harry potter books. a long and twisted tale
of how i got there, proving yet again the adage that no good deed goes
unpunished.
---andy the schismatic
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Rocki
rubbish. I also like thrillers by Robert Goddard (they are DH's but are
really good !)
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Sophie
recommendations here. Thanks!
Sophie
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Sophie
given his autobiography for Xmas, and just about to start it ... Is it
Maeve Binchy who wrote something about a group of friends from an evening
class? Someone recommended that to me but I've forgotten the title ...
Sophie
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Sophie
all. She also just started to write straight (non-crime) fiction, not
entirely successfully IMO, but maybe the next will be better. I love the
feminist/political slant on her work. I've never tried PDJ, though lots of
people have recommended her. As for not buying a new book till you've
finished the one you've read, I can only say I admire your discipline
immensely!!!! My toddler is more likely to be building dens out of books
than the cardboard boxes I used to use; we have walls of the things here -
I'm seriously thinking of opening a secondhand bookshop - 'cept the town's
full of them already ....
Sophie
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Yes it was Maeve that wrote "The Evening Class" . That was one of the ones
that i liked the least. It talked about each person individually if i
remember correctly. I prefer the ones that are written as novels and focus
on everyone together. The first book of hers i read was "Tara Road" and it
was the first book that ever made me cry. You feel like such a part of the
family, that you are sitting at their kitchen table with a mug of tea and
talking about the neighbours! I highly recommend it!
Marianne
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nici :o)
Definitely a fan of Harry Potter - can't wait for the movie. :o)
Also I've been reading some Dean Koontz books (not really into horror things
but he is a good writer). I could read & re-read the Tolkien books and
Sebastian Faulkes "Birdsong" is also a favourite. Oh! And has anyone heard
of Stephen Donaldson's "Thomas Covenant" books??!!!
I'm a bookworm but I enjoy ALL books - wish I lived in a library!! :o))
Nicky T
Kent, UK
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Nancy
lately my nighttime reading has been my collection of various novels by P.G.
Wodehouse.
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Stephen Rees
And that's not discipline, so much as poverty. We are also running out
of bookshelf space. We have moved rather a lot in the last few years
which means I have lost contact with those friends who used to borrow
books from me. They all thought "He has so many he will never notice"
and never returned them. This at least meant I had some shelf space,
until I found a really good secondhand book store and was able to get
some set completing replacements.
And if any of you are lurking out there, and you still have Len
Deighton's cook books (long out of print and so far irreplaceable) I
know who you are!
AB
time. I love a good horror book, but generally something that absorbs me
but I don't have to think about to hard!!!!
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Susan Hill
"Glass Lake" novel.
I also like Jane Green in particular "Jemima J" which I got recommended.
It's about a lady struggling with a weight issue but it written so funnily
that I was just laughing the whole way through.
Another Author I like is Lesley Pearse and one of my fave novels is "Rosie"
Anyway cya
Susan
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kat >^.^<
lately I snagged a few Elizabeth Peters, and re-read a Douglas Adams. He is
too weird for most tastes, I guess. I feel guilty every time I read
something that is not on a required reading list for a class, tho. I have
to read 11 books for one of my new classes!
Oh, yeah, I rather enjoyed Harry Potter. But I love "kid's books."
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Jilly Cooper, Marian Keyes, Patricia Cornwell, John Grisham, the guy who
wrote Shogun, Taipan, Noblehouse etc. I also read a lot of cookbooks.
Mia
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Deb in Northern California
I love James Patterson and his books with the Alex Cross character. I will
say though that my favorite of his novels is not an Alex Cross one though.
My favorite is When The Wind Blows. It is a great book and highly
recommended.
Debbie
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over the world. It's next on my to-be-read pile.
She's won lots of awards in England but just recently made the jump across
the pond with this latest book. Born in Scotland, to a poor mining family,
McDermid is a fascinating woman who got a scholarship to Oxford that turned
her life around.
She is also an open lesbian, about 50, and quite overweight! She and her
long-time partner recently had a baby. She was featured on a 15-minute
segment on CBS Sunday Morning recently and charmed a nation. Nice to see an
author who wasn't the stereotypical beauty in a black leather jacket posed
by her own plane, which seems to be the favorite book jacket photo lately
for female mystery writers.
Just finished some recent Marcia Muller mysteries featuring PI Sharon
McComb--good series! Fool's Run by John Sandford was the book before that.
Not part of his outstanding "Prey" series, which is fairly violent but
compelling reading anyway, this one features a computer whiz and computer
crime and no gore that I recall.
If anyone loves mysteries and would like to be on a list with some 2000+
devoted mystery readers and writers (about 100 posts a day on digest),
e-mail me privately and I'll give you the info for Dorothy-L. It was named
for Dorothy L. Sayers, one of the first women mystery writers, who is much
better than her peer Agatha Christie.
Carol Schmidt (you can always read my three mysteries, too-- from the
catalog of www.naiadpress.com or from the big online booksellers: Silverlake
Heat, Sweet Cherry Wine, and Cabin Fever)
Sophie
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> Carol Schmidt (you can always read my three mysteries, too-- from the
> catalog of www.naiadpress.com or from the big online booksellers:
Silverlake
> Heat, Sweet Cherry Wine, and Cabin Fever)
Now, I have to say I have looked these up on amazon before, Carol, and never
got around to ordering them, but since I've solicited book recommendations I
really have got no excuse now, have I? Do you have an amazon associate link
from a site of your own which will get you a better royalty cut, before I do
the deed?
Sophie
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Carol Schmidt
chain as a last resort. So, even though it makes no difference in royalties
to me, why not go to the small publisher, www.naiadpress.com?
Small businesses are struggling so hard to survive in this world where
everything gets gobbled up by megacorporations that have only stock profits
at heart and which have lost the personal contact
Thanks,
Carol Schmidt
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I'll do just that, unless I find there's a currency problem, but I don't see
why there should be if I can pay by CC. I'll let you know what happens (I
won't say I'll tell you what I think, because I'm sure you don't need my
opinion of your undoubted talents!). :o)
Sophie
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Gail
followed by Dick Francis and Patricia Cornwell. Also love the books by
Jan Karon, Danielle Steele and of course the Harry Potter books. Lately
I've started reading my DH's books by W.E.B. Griffith. There are loads more
but those are my favourites.
Gail
just starting day 4
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kat >^.^<
as sharp as they used to be, but I still read 'em.
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Joanie55
The pern series by Anne McCaffery... :) Fantasy and dragons.. I'm lost
in the world, and I don't want to come home.. have read the series several
times...
The Chronicles of the Deryni (Morgana, you might like this series.. ) by
Kathrine Kurtz also found in the fantasy section of bookstores... lovely
series with a nice blend and contradiction of powers "magical" and
religious "ideals"
The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle
The Cheysuli chronicles (shapechangers series..) The race of cheysuli try
to survive the prejudices of the humans that fear them when they learn the
cheysuli can change to the shape of the animal they bond with in their
coming of age ritual... by Jennifer Roberson
Mercedes Lackey - Arrows of the Queen series...
Roger Zelazny The amber series
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stuff... but the covenant.. yes, we have those, and I should really re read
them.. it's been awhile. IF you like those, see my post about other fantasy
books I like :)
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enough of them. I don't dare start her stuff because I don't have time to
read them all--which is what I do when I discover a "new" writer (I did Sue
Grafton's series in 8 days).
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