que seria sem graça porque não tenho nenhuma referência do tema gestação de risco com repouso absoluto, mas curti super!,
I felt bad for all the family drama Q had to deal with, but I really liked the ending,.I wanted to enjoy this book but it had a few issues that prevented me from doing so:
whiny/borderline bitchy protagonist who belittles, judges, or vilifies those around her with little to no inner reflection on her behaviors and motivations
The “diary” framework.
Im wondering why the author chose to frame the story in this manner It comes across as unbelievable journaling detailed dialogue at:, really and tiresome,
In many instances, it was repetitive, “Im stuck in my boring yellow living room, helpppppp, ” Help me as a reader by providing an entertaining story, Despite being a short text, it dragged in many places and the characters and plot were not quite enough to drive it forward and make it interesting, Which is a shame because the premise sounded pretty good, I wish I could give this book no at all, I had a pretty good sense that I would not finish the book, right from the start, but I try to go at leastpages in before I set a novel aside.
I don't think I made it pastsorry, I'm reading on a Kindle and don't know what page I was on when I finally hit the wall, The author has a sophomoric, smug voice, terribly unlikeable and mean, What finally did it for me was when Q the protagonist describes a scene taking place in the building across the way from hers basically, she's peeping into other people's apartments.
She describes her neighbors as elderly and frail and tells us how she watched an elderly man try and change a lightbulb, He teetered on his stepstool, lost hold of the lightbulb which smashed to the ground and had to start all over, Q's assessment of the situation was that it was highly entertaining Seriously Watching an old person come near to doing himself harm is entertaining Both Ms Bilston and her editor need to do a selfcheck.
Ugh. I'm just giving up on this book, It's awful. For awhile I was dragging myself through it and was like, well, I should just read it and finish
it, but you know what Eff that, Life is too short to force myself to finish crap books, so into the DNF pile for you,
I wanted to read this because it was about pregnancy, and I want to have children eventually and the maternal clock is ticking so I thought maybe reading about someone being pregnant would sort of scratch that itch in the meantime, but this sure wasn't the right book for that.
The main protagonist is just awful, She is a totally awful stuck up horrible person,
I'm assuming HOPING that eventually she will realize what an awful, awful person she is and come to realize that she needs to stop being such a bitch to people around her, but honestly, I can't deal with her until then.
She is some sort of high powered lawyer in New York that is put on bed rest forish months because of some complication with her pregnancy.
She starts to write a "journal" about it, although it's one of those stupid journal books that is completely unbelievable because no one not even those with three months of free time on bed rest has time to write out every single tiny conversation and detail word for word, minute by minute of their entire day, every day.
She does not even last one day ONE, DAY. before she is whining about how hard her life is being stuck on the couch, I mean seriously I can understand it maybe wearing on you after a couple weeks MAYBE, but the fact that she is overcome with boredom almost instantaneously was just ridiculous.
She is needy and selfish and awful towards her husband and her friend that comes to visit her, Her husband obviously tried very hard to fix food for her, but is also extraordinarily busy with his job supporting them both while she is off work, and she has no appreciation for anything he does.
Her one friend from work comes by to bring food even though I got the impression they weren't super good friends at work although I don't really remember at this point :p and then subsequently comes by pretty much every day with food and Q the main character chick is basically just pissed at her for everything pissed that she brought the wrong food, pissed if she doesn't bring food, pissed if she brings food but has the gall to stay and chat about her personal problems, etc.
It's just ridiculous, So I give up! Onwards and upwards to better things, There is more to Sara Bilston's 'BED REST' than meets the eye, On the surface it is a witty tale of a woman ordered to be on bed rest for the remainingweeks of her pregnancy, Quinn, or Q as she is affectionately called, decides to write a diary about her weeks on bed rest for her child to read one day but as bed rest starts to take it's toll, Q soon realizes that her life may not be the perfect life within which to raise a child.
Q and husband Tom seem to have it all, They are both high powered corporate attorneys with a small but great NY apartment who are both crazy about each other, . . that is when they actually get to see each other, After a rare passion filled evening, Q finds herself pregnant and thrilled but when she finds out that her amniotic fluid is low and she must be on bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy she is obviously scared to death.
However, during her time on bed rest which is no easy feat for someone used to the hustleandbustle of life as New York City attorney Q soon realizes a few things about her life.
Her job is not all that it is cracked up to be, her family may be a bit more misunderstood than she imagined and most earth shatteringly that her marriage may not be as solid as she's once imagined.
Workaholic Tom doesn't seem to have any time for her so what is going to happen when the baby arrives
BED REST' does not have the usual chicklit clichés such as the doting husband the quirky friend or Q trying to scheme her way out of the bed every time you turn around.
This is an honest take on life, the effects of a new baby on a marriage and the real life scares of a high risk pregnancy, This novel all though dragging at times was overall a fun read and certainly not predictable!/stars! This novel is written in the form of a diary so most of the sections are short.
I enjoyed the author's telling of what life on bed rest during pregnancy really looks like it's not fun and games, It's a lot of work and more boredom, At the end, this mom delivered a healthy baby and that's all that matters, This was a good audio book and my first by Sarah Bilston, It had its funny moments as Quinn "Q" Boothroyd, a workaholic lawyer who recently made the move from London to New york with her Americanborn husband, Tom, was succumbed to bed rest for the last three months of her pregnancy after doctors find her amniotic fluids to be too low.
At first, she figures it will be a breeze, after all, Q has never been one who has a hard time keeping herself busy or entertained, However, after a mere seven or eight days, she's sure she going to go out of her mind with boredom, Written as a series of diary entries by time and date, listen to the adventures Q makes of her Bed Rest full of emotional bonding with her unborn, repairning and reignitying the intimacy within her marriage, helping out friends with their legal queries and of course, much hilarity.
Excllent narration by newtome reader, Elizabeth Sastre, I loook forward to Bilston's sequel, Sleepless Nights, I had gone to the library to pick up some books I had on hold and decided to buzz through the fiction section while there, As I walked through, I saw Bed Rest sitting on a shelf and picked it up on a whim,
Its a pretty basic book, Its short you could read it in an afternoon or in a couple days, has a simple plot pregnant NYC woman gets placed on bed rest, antics ensue and ends on a fairly predictable note.
This by no means, however, means that its not worth reading, Its a light, fun book and I imagine anyone who has actually been on bed rest would find this book that much more enjoyable, Bilston is a humorous writer and manages to convey familiar chick lit emotions without resorting to any groanworthy chick lit cliches, I really liked the bookand was relieved that Im not on bed rest! Knock on wood, Easy, happy ending book Audio good for walks and commutes, This is one of those books you read in a day when theres nothing good in the DVR queue, All the characters were terrible people, A few months from now I wont remember a thing about this book, Easy, predictable but good chick lit read, This was an average chicklit type of read, It had some funny parts, perhaps the funniest thing is the mere fact that these soon newtobe parents think they can place a pregnancy in these nice little checkoff boxes and to run exactly as they planned.
Both parents being very driven individuals working at law firms different firms and Q is not ready to be stopped in her tracks and put on bed rest.
In all fairness, I don't think anybody is really ready for such an event, I also couldn't imagine having to spend weeks on end only laying on your left side, That being said, for the safety of my unborn I certainly would,
Q talks us through her daily life of staying on her side, from staring out the window into the neighbors apartments to praying for visitors, even if they are from people she didn't particularly care for.
Great book for when you need to fill a challenge as it is a new quick read with a character that fits that hard to fill Q spot or a blue cover.
Light chick lit, quick read, reminder to focus on what is important in life, This book was pretty good, I was looking for Sophie Kinsella books on my Scribd app and they didn't have what I wanted, so they suggested Bed Rest, I am wanting to get into these types of book, so I decided to give it a try, I do not regret it! It had its flaws, and sometimes could be a bit dry, but it was entertaining, The description might seem boring, I mean, what could be so interesting about a pregnant woman who has to go on complete bed rest for three months Well, the author did a good job making it a fun ride!
Three because of the rushed ending along with a few other flaws.
I feel a bit bad giving this book only one star, I didn't need to buy it in the first place, other than the fact that there were booksellers set up in the hospital cafeteria on a stressful day in a previous placement, and they were sellingfor.
I bought six. No justification. I knew, when I read all the fannying about, explaining the firstperson narrative by framing it as a diary totally fucking pointless and wasn't even used consistently, that it was going to bug the tits off me.
But did I stop reading No I did not,
Nor is it the Bed Rest's fault that my circadian rhythms are all to cock with doing my first ever week of night shift and I've been so tired that I would have killed for three months' bed rest, quite frankly.
Nor could Bilson have predicted that my pride and joy, my iPod Classic, filled to the brim with over,songs, would suddenly and mysteriously wipe itself of everything I've ever listened to, on the day I finish the book.
But, let's face it, it didn't do itself any favours, Q was an idiot. Which sixmonth pregnant woman with an Oxford education and a supposedly highpowered job has never heard of amniotic fluid She's also despite her biological ignorance vaguely disdainful of the nursing profession, which, I can tell you, did not go down at all well with this particular health professionaltobe did I mention I was on nights this week.
But the final straw For a woman who, apparently, "loves" Jane Austen, "wishes" she had studied literature instead of law, and quotes Sylvia Plath, she never opens a fucking book in her whole incarceration.
She watches Ricki Lake, but doesn't get round to reading a novel, Aaargh, I've just made myself angry writing about it, So, no, I don't feel bad about awarding one star, I do feel bad about the swearing though, Sorry. I must stop that. Underhållning för stunden,