Can you recommend a book to help me pass the time while signed-off work with morning sickness?

[artichokes]

I need to do something other than watch daytime TV and MN...

Books I have read recently, and loved, include the Kite Runner (and his other one A Thousand Burning Suns), the Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (and all Maggie O'Farrell's stuff), the Corrections (Johnathan Franzen).

Any suggestions for a very bored and nauseated person?

Have you read The Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver - I loved it and its a big chunky read which will keep you going for a while!

Morning sickness is horrible, I had it quite bad up until I was about 5 months pregnant.

I'm reading The Post Birthday World now and I agree - it's great! I recently read A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon and enjoyed it too. Another good un but it's old is Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud - one of the few books I can read again and I won't pass on for circulation! Hope you're feeling better soon.

Something I read when sick is the Diary of a Provincial Lady. Easy, witty and charming.

It's the original Diary of Adrian Mole/Bridget Jones/Slummy mummy all rolled in together (was written pre war) and is something you can dip in and out of.

I have it by my bed at all times for when gentleness is required. I gave it to a friend when she was in an isolation ward for a time and she liked it.

Have just read Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani (or similar!) - very easy to read, excellent escapism.

have you read Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts? I think it would take anybody's mind off of anything . even morning sickness. sympathies by the way - had it grim myself up till I gave birth.. if only it were just the morning eh. ds was well worth it though :-) hang on in there

(shantaram does have some descriptive accounts of the slums in india and other 'lurid' type smells / sights etc but I don't think it would / could make you feel worse than you do already)

artichokes, sorry to hear you're feeling so awful. Did you find anything good to read?

Um, The Harry Potter books or similar children's series. You can generally get them all from the library, easy reading, entertaining, but a helluva lot of them to read.

I do read grown up stuff too

I read Jools Oliver's book, I liked to read about someone suffering as much as I was with morning sickness! It is an interesting read though.
Or for something completely different that will take your mind completely off it try Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody, my favourite book.

Lovely feel good books - eg: Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day; Cold Comfort Farm; Pride And Prejudice.

And yes - a series would be good eg The HPs.

"Egg Dancing" by Liz Jensen, about designer babies, is good fun!

I am nearly at the end of The Book Theif by Markus Zusak, and it's brilliant.

I also am a big fan of the Kite Runner.

Nick Hornby is good light hearted
or classics Rebecca, or maggie o'farrell or Ian Rankin

try Ian rankin

What about snowflower and the secret fan I really enjoyed this} I think you would too as I also enjoyed the Kite Runner and A thousand Splendid suns.

Do you like sci-fi? As I have just finished reading a series by Elizabeth Moon which are brilliant with strong and interesting female lead characters. Cleverly written adnv ery entriging. Search on amazon for Elizabeth moon and "Serrano" as all 3 book have that in the title.

But alsio Big Stone Gap as recommended earlier is really good simple, enjoyable chick lit. Loved it. Adrianna Tirgiannis "Queen of the Big Time" is also v good.

I read Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin (both Margaret Atwood) when very sick with DS1 and found them both very comforting for some reason.

love alias grace!

what about an uncommon reader by alan bennett...what happens when the queen discovers a mobile public library in the palace grounds...small and funny...

or the book thief, set in wartime germany from a young girls point of view....poignant and warm and funny

Another vote for The Blind Assassin. Also try The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I enjoy some of Anita Shreve's books - try Eden Close, Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife.
Have to confess to finding Agatha Christie stories a huge comfort when I'm feeling ill. Also anything by Antonia Forest (but v hard to get if you don't already own). Harry Potters too - in order from 1 to 7!!

Hope you feel better soon - I remember morning sickness far too well to ever have any more children!!!!

Doesn't reading make you feel dizzy ?

I couldn't focus on the page for long at all until I got some lovely drugs to sort myself out.

Is your G.P. not helpful ?

Another vote for Winifred Watson's Miss Pettigres Lives For A Day. A very cheering, hot water bottle sort of book.

MC Beaton's Agatha Raison and Hamish Macbeth series are funny and undemanding. And there's heaps of them so they should last you a few weeks.

Poor you. Morning sickness is such a misnomer. More like every waking hour sickness.

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