Easy Reading

[equusregia]

A while back, I posted a request for recommendations of challenging reading. I'm still working my way through those recommendations, but now I have a very different request. I'd like recommendations for the funnest, easiest reads you know of, especially if they are series. Why, you might ask? Well, I'm about to have a wee one, which means being up

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[equusregia]

1. The problem with manga is that the art is too hard to follow when my eyes barely focus.

2. I'll check it out.

3. Yes, I read your post about it, and it sounds really interesting and very much up my alley. I'll read it during the day. I'll see that recommendation and raise you one: Women: an Intimate Geography combines science and sociology in a very readable breakdown of how women's physiology shapes culture.

4. I don't think I ever have, although I've certainly heard of him. If you wanted to lend me some of those, I'd be happy to try them out.

5. Thanks, and I look forward to any further suggestions you might have.

[crouchback]

Oh wow. I'd forgotten about Swordspoint. (vito_excalibur left me a bunch of books when she moved from Greater Chiwaukee, and that was among them.) I also think you'd love it.

[crouchback]

Boy, that's a tough one.

I think Lawrence Block's Burglar series will probably work, although it might be easier for me because I read pretty fast.

[equusregia]

Thanks for the suggestion. I also want to try the Bartemeus books which you recommended in a post a while back.

[crouchback]

I can't beleive I didn't think of them in this context.

Yes, t hey are highly recommended, and this is a perfect time for you to get them.

[annaoj]

Rachel Caine's Weather Warden series is a fairly fluffy first-person supernatural (somewhat in the Laurel Hamilton etc vein), quite readable. Tanya Huff's series might work for you as well--there's fluffy high fantasy with queer characters (Quarters series), fluffy vampire fantasy with queer characters...The series that starts with Smoke & Shadows might seem amusingly familiar--the main character is working on a TV series remarkably like Forever Knight. I sometimes turn to Mercedes Lackey when I need brainless fluff. Hmmm...Jennifer Roberson's Cheysuli series maybe? Have you read Naomi Novik at all?

[equusregia]

Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't read Naomi Novik, but someone else suggested her too, so I'll have to track down one of her books.

[tangleofthorns]

I would recommend, if you haven't read them, Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels--all of them are pretty good, but the best stretch is from "Early Autumn" (1980) through "Double Deuce" (1992). They're straight up Chandleresque literate private eye good times. With lots of cooking and shootouts and one-liners.

(The best one is 1986's "A Catskill Eagle," but you need to have read at least from "Early Autumn" forward before you read it or you'll miss some of the intensity.)

I haven't read "A Series of Unfortunate Events" or "His Dark Materials," but both of those seem like they might be in the right neighborhood.

[ranunculus]

Hi, just wandering past from sagefemme11's friends list...

For ease of reading, you might try Naomi Novik's "His Magesty's Dragon" and the two books that follow it. The book is very English, on the Horatio Hornblower kind of feel, but it is both funnier (downright silly at times) and very, very simple.

Another easy to read book is Robin McKinley's "Sunshine", though it might be harder to follow the story line than the first choice. It is an amusing vampire story, with some points to ponder, but not many. It does sort of deal with gender issues as well....

My third recomendation isn't really what you are looking for for nursing - perhaps (though I could be wrong about that) but I thought it was a terriffic read: Jane Lindskold's "Child of a Rainless Year".

Enjoy!

[equusregia]

Thanks for the suggestions! Someone else mentioned Naomi Novik, so I'll start with her.