Bed-bound and bored

[LadyHester]

Have just had a fairly major operation (successfully) and will be confined to barracks for some time. I’d organised lots of Improving Literature to keep me entertained but am now in pain, fed up, and just don’t fancy anything I’d planned.
I need recommendations for well written trash - please come to my aid!

I’ve had a period of recent ill health which coincided with a ‘Hundred Greatest Books’ scratch off poster at Christmas.

With wearisome resignation I downloaded The Count of Monte Cristo (and bought the book as well as it’s a fecking BEAST) in a ‘well I better get on with it and get this one done’ move.

After an extremely tedious start I wonder if Dumas’ wife started covertly feeding him meth when Dantès arrives at the Château D’If.

2am I was listening to it this morning, and not because of insomnia.

Slightly wishing I could get another minor ailment now so I can just stay at home with the Count.

In addition: brooding

Apologies OP. Just read your spec for well written trash. Which obvs the Count is not.

I’d go with a re-read of Lace then.

No no no @Stoechas I shall obtain said tome forthwith. Any narrative prose fiction can meet the trash criterion if held up to Jane Austen’s imagined anti-novel interlocutor in Northanger Abbey.
And if there are too many long words I can look at the cover.

But - 100 greatest books scratch-off - where can I obtain such a thing?

@LadyHester scratch off 100 books poster. It’s a bit American-lit heavy but looks very pretty hanging up (we’ve also got the movies, tv series, anime and board games posters).

So have you read Don Quixote?

Not books, but ‘Shakespeare and Hathaway’ is my go-to tv series post hospital operations. Well worth watching - the storylines are interesting enough and varied to be captivating, but aren’t too heavy, plus there’s a lovely dynamic between the main three actors. (BBC - if you are reading this, please make a new series).

I have not.

P G Wodehouse

@Chevyimpala67 Of course!

I would reread all of Paullina Simons books.

I would consider a few of those on the Scratch Off poster trash, so you should be ok there-although I agree it does look pretty.