Help! Am having a hard time enjoying the books I've been picking up! Gave up on Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve by page 112 as it was just too much like hard work. Am currently reading Slummy Mummy which I would normally expect to whizz through, but even that is slow going.

I really wanted to make a good dent in Mount TBR this year, but after a good start I've really slowed down. Not sure if I'm putting too much pressure on myself to get books read and out of the house, or if it's because I know my reading time will be reduced in a couple of months, or whether I've just got too many other things going on at the minute :lol:

If anyone fancies looking at my TBR's and suggesting quick, easy reads that might get me going again, I would appreciate it!

I enjoyed a lot in People's Act of Love; I wouldn't say it's easy read but it's fantastic!
Then there are The Book Thief or Gods in Alabama. Giz would probably say The Book of Dave ...
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I really loved The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman and it was a very quick read. Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier was wonderful too!

I also really liked Lois Duncan when I was younger so Five Were Missing might be a good choice.

I have Autobiography of a Face to read soon and it is supposedly very good. It is short, too!

I see a lot of books that I have TBR but not too many that I've read.

I looked over your whole list and i've read several of them and heard about a lot of them. (Mostly good reviews :lol: )

You have a couple of my "all time favorites" on there - Agatha Christie's "Then There were None". I loved this book each of the 3 or 4 times I've read it. They keep making bad movies from the story, but the story itself is awesome.

I was sad to see that you had sent Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" off without getting to read it. It was a wonderful book about mothers and daughters.

If you are wanting a serious mystery, I liked most of the Pattersons and Graftons you had listed. A funny, witty mystery, then go for the Evanovich.

Just an all round funny in the Christopher Moore style - "Good Omens" by Gaiman & Pritchett would be a good choice.

I second all of these.

"And Then There Were None" is probably one of the best mysteries ever written. It keeps you guessing right up to the very end. Oh, and if you're a person who flips to the back of the book... DON'T ON THIS ONE, no matter how tempting.

Evanovich is delightful. Her books are fast and fun.

And "Good Omens" is hilarious and very witty. You can't go wrong with PTerry and GNeil. :D

Loves Me Loves Me Not by Libby Malin was a good chick lit, and A Girl's Guide to Vampires by Katie MacAlister was a good romance.

What about...

Something Blue/Baby Proof by Emily Giffin? (Haven't read this one, but her's are usually light!)
Any Jodi Picoult (they always get me hooked quick!)
GODS IN ALABAMA!!!! Loved it!
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier (written in short bursts of POV - would be easy to read in a slump!)

Good luck....

P.S. Citizen Girl is nothing like The Nanny Diaries

I would recommend Baby Proof, Cooking for Mr. Right, or The Other Boleyn Girl.