Something occurred to me shortly after my little freak out yesterday.� Perhaps, just maybe, I am tired because I am not sleeping.� What?� Wow!� An outstanding deduction on my part.� You see, ever since I read the books that shall not be named, I have been an incorrigible candy coated reader.� What started off as a dieting tip quickly became a replacement vice.� I not only read trash, I read trash constantly.� There are nights that I go to bed at 2:00am, simply because I have to find out how my latest romance novel acquisition turns out.
It’s a romance novel.� I can tell you how it will turn out: the same as the other 210 novels I have already read this month.� The guy gets the girl, and then the epilogue tells you they have kids. The End.
So is it any wonder, with me getting up routinely at 7:30am, that I am a bit tired and cranky?� Apparently I am tired enough that brain cells are beyond my reach.� I’ll have to survive on instinct, and so far it isn’t looking good.� My instinct made me read the following since June:
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Something Borrowed
- Something Blue
- Baby Proof
- Twilight
- New Moon
- Eclipse
- Breaking Down
- Midnight Sun
- McKenzie’s Mountain
- Morning Glory
- Honor’s Splendor
- Courting Miss Hattie
- Paradise
- If My Love Could Hold You
- Dream Man
- It Had to Be You
- This Heart of Mine
- Remember When
- Dead Until Dark
I’m too lazy to provide links, and it’s not like you’re missing anything other than the slow death of firing synapses.� The romance novels I actually pilfered from my childhood room at my parents’ house.� I’m not even sure some of them are still in print, which isn’t exactly a bad thing.
Oh, and I’ve started If I Stay, Love in the Time of Cholera, and today bought, The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zefon.� You know, because I need another book. Books have become as important to me as baking soda, tin foil, and a microwave once was to Robert Downey Jr., and this addict is nowhere near recovery.
So, let’s hear it for reading frivolously.� What have you been reading lately that you found deliciously light and easy?� I plan on finishing up the Sookie Stackhouse series, and maybe one day finish book II in the Outlander series.� I just can’t finish that second book, and I only have pages left to finish.
The Time Traveler’s Wife by: Audrey Niffenegger- awesome! If you haven’t read it yet, it’s a definite must.
Ashley, you’re the second person in as many days to recommend that book to me! I’m taking it as a sign. :)
In the beginning, it’s a little hard to keep things straight, but it’s well worth it.
I also think The Time Traveler’s Wife is a fabulous book, but I wouldn’t classify it as “deliciously light and easy.” That definition (for me) is reserved for fluffy books, like chick lit or romances.
I just read Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster. That’s a pool book (or a book for lazy people). :)
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Funny I am trying to read The Time Traveler’s Wife myself. I just have no time/energy. I read two pages and start drooling and fall dead asleep :/ So I guess I say at least you are reading even if they are light and fluffy. Your comments have inspired me to try the Time Traveler again!
I am currently reading “My sisters keeper” by Jodi Picoult. Really good book. You should try it. This book is also a motion picture that will be out soon.
Blessings and happy reading.
Heidi
Love Jodi Picoult books and looking for fluff? Danelle Steel :)
I liked The Time Traveler’s Wife. Since then I’ve read The Thirteenth Tale and Broken For You, both good, but not necessarily light. Now I’m reading Moloka’i, with What Is The What on CD in my car. On deck I’ve got Shanghai Girls and The Madonnas of Leningrad…all books I learned about here in the blogging world.
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Water for Elephants – it was my fav book club book from last year. I’m reading Mercy by Jodi Picolt right now – it’s not as good as her others in my opinion. My Sisters Keeper should definitely be on your list – but keep the tissues handy. ;-)
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I must say: “Eat, Pray, Love” and “Love in the Time of Cholera”? NOT frivolous!!
The Falco Detective Series by Lindsey Davis. SO fun!
I’ll echo the praise for ” The Time Travelers Wife”. I loved it, but no it is not “light” reading. In anticipation of the movie next week I just finished “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” – again ( then I had to read “Deathly Hallows” as well).
Emily Griffin (or is it Griffith?) is good for light and fluffy – I think she’s written three of four books but the only title I can remember right now is “Baby Proof”. Oh, and Robert B. Parker books are light reading for me – but maybe they can’t qualify as fluffy.
I absolutely loved Eat, Pray, Love. Could I please pack it up and travel around the world!? An easy read, but not a light hearted one is Still Alice by Lisa Genova. You will devour it. It’s beautifully haunting, I just finished it and have 3 friends who purchased it bc I couldnt stop telling them how wonderful it is. http://www.amazon.com/Still-Alice-Lisa-Genova/dp/1439102813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247148382&sr=1-1
Happy Reading!
I, too, fell victim to many of those books – the entire Sookie Stackhouse collection included! So don’t feel bad, you are certainly NOT alone. Here are a few others I liked:
Straight Up and Dirty by Stephanie Klein
Eating Heaven by Jennie Shortridge
Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
Shelley–I know! Not light. I was trying to feel better about my choices lately by picking something more respectable. It did not good! :)
Kathy–You reminded me! I read those Emily Griffin books! Well, three of them anyway. I added them to my list. :)
Everyone is loving The Time Traveler’s Wife. Mercy. But, Jen knows me–me want the stupid right now–and I’m wondering if it isn’t light enough for my feeble brain right now.
i love the titles on this list – “Dream Man”, “If My Love Could Hold You”. sound like Lifetime movies. so funny. i save all my *nonexistent* free time for blogs but i did order the new Dooce book. have a feeling that might be a little heavy tho…i need lite. when i was preggo read Sushi for Beginners – Marian Keyes. i guess akin to Shopaholic chick lit stuff. that detective series someone mentioned sounds cool. hope you’re feeling better. sleep is key!
Friday Night Knitting Club. It’s not brain food, but it will keep you entertained. Hopefully…
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I have read (and loved) the following books
Something Borrowed
Something Blue
Baby Proof
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Down
Midnight Sun
I am now trying to read the “Love the one your with” by emily griffith. I think reading is great…and I to have been up late hours reading those books and I finally had to put a limit on what my reading was. I couldn’t read past the late night news.
It saved me from being super cranky in the morning!
I love to read!!! I’ve read many on your list. I like Chic Lit – LOVE Emily Giffin, Jen Lancaster, Beth Harbison: she has 2 books about shoe addicts which are great, Carole Matthews: she has the chocolate lovers club and chocolate lovers diet, both great, Kristin Hannah: Firefly Lane is one of my favorite books from her, Jodi Piccoult. I have book reviews on my blog if you want to check others out.
These all sound like excellent beach reads. Have any of your books featured a Fabio-esque character caressing some woman and her undoubtedly heaving bosom in front of crashing waves?
I just finished “Same Kind of Different as Me” by Ron Hall and Denver Moore (it’s a true story and such an easy read.) http://www.samekindofdifferentasme.com/
My absolute favorite authors are T.R. Pearson and Ferrol Sams. They are hilarious, witty, observant and brilliant. I think they’d both be right up your alley.
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I’m currently reading ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’, go figure LOL. I also got the first 2 Sookie Stackhouse novels here to read because ‘someone’ told me they were easy reads hehe.
A book I just finished on Tuesday that I *loved* is ‘Snow Flower and the Secret Fan’ by Lisa See. Soooo good.
If you are looking for some more good vampire fare, try the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. It has vampires and werewolves … and sex. LOL.
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If you are looking for brain candy, I’d recommend the Body Movers series by Stephanie Bond. They are totally light, kind of funny, mystery-chick-lit-sleuth stuff…doesn’t require any real thinking, and the stories are entertaining. Perfect pool/beach/outside-in-the-sun reading. :-)
Everyone MUST, MUST, MUST read the following: Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner and the sequel to it. And, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalil Hosseini. Both I would have given up the most delicious cupcake in the world just to finish. Such great books.
Hmm, Time Travellers Wife didn’t do it for me. It was a quckie, not enough for me. I was reading it as a mindless escape after my father died, so take my comment with a grain of salt.
I am now reading… the 39 clues. It is a childrens book. For the first time, all my guys are reading something at the same time. All are interested in it, everyone is at the right reading level and we can talk about it together. We just can’t read ahead so as not to tease slower readers about the story line.
: )
Ahh frivolous reading. Love it, but need to make more time for it. I’m a murder/spy/mystery junkie-really bad. You’re totally going to make me turn off my computer now and head towards the bookshelf!
BTW love the picture. It also gives me hope. I’m in denial about needing glasses.
OK, Courting Miss Hattie is an awesome title. I just had to look it up, and then I was treated to this in the summary: “But wasn’t a twenty-nine-year-old lady farmer too old to catch a husband?” Double-awesome. /oO\
I’m slogging my way through A Confederacy of Dunces right now. I’m halfway through, and I know it’s a Pulitzer Prize winner and Brandon kept telling me to read it (he LOVES it), but I’m just not enjoying it. Meh. I’m hoping it’s one of those books where everything comes together in the end (unlike The Corrections, where everything supposedly comes together in the end but I was just left wondering why I wasted my time reading about a 30-year-old man who wears leather pants and hates his parents).
Oh, nice picture too! Kinda sexy librarian-ish.
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Nicole, I believe I get extra credit points just for admitting I read a book called “Courting Miss Hattie.” And, funny enough, out of all the trash in my pile, that one was one of my favorites! /O0\ In my defense, it’s a book I bought when I was 19. (Not that I have any credibility left to redeem.)
Slogging is exactly what I don’t feel like doing. All these books I read within a day/night, and you can’t normally do that with a book that, you know, wins awards and stuff. :) A Confederacy of Dunces actually looks like a good book, and one I would normally read. I will have to pick it up after I am done feasting at the candy bar of literature.
I love that you are reading frivolous romance novels– I read junk like that ALL the time. Mainly because that is all I really have the energy for right now with a 10-month-old. Plus, they are just fun:-)!
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I’m coming out of the woodwork to suggest Julie and Julia. I know it’s about to be a movie, and I’m normally not a bandwagoner (who am I kidding… of course I am!), but I started it last night and think it fits your requirements. Other books I’ve read this summer? Trail of Crumbs, Travels with Charley, and My Sister’s Keeper. May be just what you’re looking for.
Happy reading!
They’re not exactly ‘candy-coated’, but I still read V.C. Andrews books (mainly the old stuff, not the crap they put every two weeks currently). Those books are so sordid, but I can read them so fast….and joyfully!
Sadly, I started them when I was in grade school, and being an adult now, I still love them.
Flowers in the Attic, oh yah!
I read all 13 books in the Lemony Snicket “Series of Unfortunate Events”. Highly recommend!
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