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Need recommendations for funny or absorbing but not too demanding reads for a hospital stay
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MrsJohnDeere
Sat 23-Feb-13 15:40:45
Nothing about babies/birth or cancer or death.
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Bilbobagginstummy
Sat 23-Feb-13 15:48:14
Can I be the first to recommend practically anything by Georgette Heyer. Very funny historical romances. Not mushy though - and very well written.
TheOneAndOnlyAlpha
Sat 23-Feb-13 15:56:18
P G Wodehouse. My standby for any crappy moments in life. You can't beat Jeeves and Wooster.
happyAvocado
Sat 23-Feb-13 15:59:01
Three men in a boat, even though you are going to read it in hospital
MrsMiniversCharlady
Sat 23-Feb-13 15:59:10
The Diary of a Provincial Lady is my sick-in-bed-need-the literature-equivalent-of-comfort-food remedy.
hatchypom
Sat 23-Feb-13 16:02:09
damn was going to recommend bryson .... i tend to go low brow in hospital read all 3 hunger games during stay last year.
starsandunicorns
Sat 23-Feb-13 16:03:28
There is a book called A short history of tractors in the Ukaine that is good. Its a ficton.
MrsJohnDeere
Sat 23-Feb-13 16:43:35
All great ideas. Just the sort of thing I'm after. Keep them coming!
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Wishiwasanheiress
Sat 23-Feb-13 16:47:13
I'm going to whisper this but Alan titchmarsh writes a decent enough book for holidays or this type of escapism. I've really enjoyed them all. Ill no doubt be laughed on here and I was surprised too in truth but they were really good!
MrsJohnDeere
Sat 23-Feb-13 16:50:31
Any in particular you'd recommend?
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TomArchersSausage
Sat 23-Feb-13 16:53:44
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James. Watch out if you have stitches though, it's v funny
elvislives2012
Sat 23-Feb-13 16:54:53
I just read the woman who went to bed for a year by sue Townsend. Really enjoyed it. Don't need to think too much and made me chuckle
TomArchersSausage
Sat 23-Feb-13 16:56:18
Starter For Ten is hilarious esp if (like me) you were a teenager in the 80's. I can remember crying with laughter reading it.
dapplegrey
Sat 23-Feb-13 16:57:57
Dear Lupin by Charlie Mortimer
DuchessofMalfi
Sat 23-Feb-13 17:16:37
WishIwasanheiress - I admit to scoffing at DH for picking up an Alan Titchmarsh novel and reading it recently, but he said it was (surprisingly) rather good. He can tell a good story, apparently. If you're interested, it was called The Haunting. I might even be tempted to give it a go myself
hugoagogo
Sat 23-Feb-13 17:38:16
How about 'Diary of a nobody' by George and William Grossmith? Very funny.
MrsJohnDeere
Sat 23-Feb-13 17:42:26
Free to download on the Kindle
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hugoagogo
Sat 23-Feb-13 18:02:33
I thought it might be.
hugoagogo
Sat 23-Feb-13 18:05:15
PooH! it's Weedon not William, that's what I get for not checking.
PotteringAlong
Sat 23-Feb-13 18:17:33
Have you read 'an American wife' by Curtis sittenfeld? Or I absolutely loved 'Marjorie Morningstar' by Herman Wouk.
timidviper
Sat 23-Feb-13 18:20:47
I gave my DM A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine when she was in hospital and she got so engrossed she asked us not to visit one day so she could finish it!
bumbez
Sat 23-Feb-13 18:27:34
How to be a woman Caitlin Moran . It's very funny.
MrsJohnDeere
Sat 23-Feb-13 19:36:44
Have read Ukrainian Tractor book, Caitlin Moran (found irritating, sorry), Clive James and American Wife.
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MrsJohnDeere
Sat 23-Feb-13 19:38:01
Like the sound of the Herman Wouk one but no Kindle edition.
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PotteringAlong
Sat 23-Feb-13 21:05:03
'Peyton place' - grace metalious?
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