ritu wrote:
>
> Julia wrote:
>
> > > My guilty reading pleasures veer in the direction of liking
> > some of the
> > > romances I read during my pregnancy. :)
> >
> > Darn. You mean, I should have been reading romances all this
> > time? :)
>
> Not if you *can* read other stuff. :)
> I somehow couldn't. I had nightmares if I read of murders, cried over
> any mention of infidelity [do you have any idea how many books get
> disqualified at once?], obsessed over the safety and the wellbeing of
> *all* characters [even the villains have mothers, right?]...heck, I
> cried over Archie comics! In short, I was a useless bundle of hormones
> and emotions. :)
> Romances were all I *could* read and even then I had to limit myself to
> funny historicals and bland silhouettes. It was embarrassing. *And*
> inconvenient as I couldn't finish even the first page of a romance after
> Khushi was born. So I borrowed 'The Islamic Bomb' from my great uncle -
> his house was closest to the hospital.....
I haven't had a bad time with very much at all. I mean, if I can handle
a novel about two guys stumbling across a ring of illegal video
producers and distributors, who are making and selling pornographic
snuff films, and by the way, the boyfriend of one of them gets whacked
somewhat nastily, I figure I can handle an awful lot.
The few things that I can't handle when I'm pregnant include TV shows
about women with high-risk or problem pregnancies, newborn babies
needing tons of medical intervention, and movies, etc. where some
mother's child is killed (really shouldn't have seen "Pay It Forward"
when I was pregnant with Sammy -- that one shook me up badly). I was
doing OK with the books that included all sorts of things that can
happen with twin pregnancies this time around, though.
> > currently in the middle of a Sector General book (_Code Blue -
> > Emergency_ which is in an omnibus book) and Erma Bombeck on the
> > nightstand, and read _The View from Saturday_ (which won the Newbery
> > award in 1997) cover to cover yesterday, and *that* was an interesting
> > little book...
>
> Which Erma Bombeck? :)
_Family: The Ties that Bind ... And Gag!_
I picked it up at a thrift store in Laurel, Maryland, when I was
visiting my sister at some point. (I also picked up some good clothing
cheap. Don't remember which trip, but I always manage to find 1 or 2
good things for a great price there. The store benefits the local VWF
(Veterans of Foreign Wars).)
One of these years, I'll go visit my sister on my own again. Of course,
by that time, she'll have moved. I figure there will be cool things to
see in Madison, Wisconsin, though.
Julia
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