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Bed Rest
Quinn "Q" Boothroyd is a young British lawyer married to an American and living in New York City. She's checked off most of the boxes on her "Modern Woman's List of Things to Do Before Hitting 30," and her busy working life has been relatively painless. But when her doctor tells her she must spend the last three months of her pregnancy lying in bed, Q is thrown into a tail...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
June 26th 2007
by William Morrow Paperbacks
(first published April 25th 2006)
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Currently, I am thoroughly enjoying this book which I misjudged. Thinking it was another shallow yet enjoyable book in the genre of "chick lit" by another British author. I am thoroughly surprised that this novel, although comedic in tone, wrestles with some incredibly strong conflicts which I am enjoying thoroughly. Excited to see how it all ends. I love finding out what defenestrate is. To throw out the window. LOL
I am done. I liked it because unlike those novels which are romantic in tone, th...more
I am done. I liked it because unlike those novels which are romantic in tone, th...more
Quinn Boothroyd, expat Brit married to American lawyer Tom and currently pregnant with their first child, discovers a major glitch in the pregnancy (besides the fact that her and Tom's high-stress life is going to be impossible once the baby arrives): low amniotic fluid. If the baby is to survive, Q has to stay on her left side for the next thirteen weeks.
As a woman once diagnosed with placenta previa during her first pregnancy (I recall the doctor talking about blood "literally pouring off the...more
As a woman once diagnosed with placenta previa during her first pregnancy (I recall the doctor talking about blood "literally pouring off the...more
Bed Rest turned out to be a much more mature story than I expected. It was a quick read that kept my interest, but I had expected a shopaholic type character with silly high jinks.
The main character, Q, is British, married to an American, and living in New York. That's obviously why the blurbs on the dust cover are comparing the book to the shopaholic books.
The similarities end there, however. Q is a grown up grappling with major issues of a workaholic husband, down right cruel sister, boredom...more
The main character, Q, is British, married to an American, and living in New York. That's obviously why the blurbs on the dust cover are comparing the book to the shopaholic books.
The similarities end there, however. Q is a grown up grappling with major issues of a workaholic husband, down right cruel sister, boredom...more
Payed $5.00 at the bargain table, figuring it would be a good summer amusement. I found myself more involved and introspective than I had anticipated.
Ah family dynamics! Ah, the conflict of work and parenthood!
I smiled, I nearly cried, I snickered, I got hungry,
But I'm glad I didn't read this when I was pregnant!
Ah family dynamics! Ah, the conflict of work and parenthood!
I smiled, I nearly cried, I snickered, I got hungry,
But I'm glad I didn't read this when I was pregnant!
Q is pregnant but there are complications so she has to spend the final 3 months of her pregnancy in bed. She's English and married to an American so all of her family are in the UK. I enjoyed the book which is written in the form of a diary - Q is quite a funny character, but I felt it was a kind of bittersweet kind of humour. She literally is not allowed to move at all and is reliant on other people to do most things for her and meets a collection of characters who come to entertain her. She h...more
Crap crap crap chicklit. The super glossy Kinsella-type stuff too. Blah. British girl who now lives in NY (of course!) and normally has a super go go go lawyer career is stuck on bed rest for the reminder of her pregnancy. Oh the horrors! Since she has nothing better to do, she gets involved with her neighbors plight to save the building across the street from being torn down. She also deals with family stuff. At the end, she and her husband are barely talking, but as usual somehow magically wor...more
A light read.. sort of. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend the last 3 months of your pregnancy lying down? Well, this would be the answer. A frustrating, lonely, cookie-eating time.
Imagine that your husband is a workaholic who doesn't seem to "get it".. the fear that he will leave because you're not getting on very well.. dealing with a mother and sister who get on your nerves and seem bent on fixing you, having a disturbing view into your friend's love lives.. worrying about...more
Imagine that your husband is a workaholic who doesn't seem to "get it".. the fear that he will leave because you're not getting on very well.. dealing with a mother and sister who get on your nerves and seem bent on fixing you, having a disturbing view into your friend's love lives.. worrying about...more
A young English lawyer, married to an American and living in New York, goes for a routine scan, finds her amniotic fluid dangerously low and is confined to bed for the duration of her pregnancy. But life doesn't end there: whilst lying on her sofa she finds herself the confidante for a colleague embroiled in an affair with a married man, forced to reassess her relationships with her mother and sisters and even with her late father, and acting as legal adviser for a group of elderly tenants faced...more
Got this at a garage sale with a box full of other books... was looking for a light read while waiting for my library book to come in and chose to read this one as the back cover said "laugh out loud funny & couldn't put it down". Totally DISAGREE with that. The main character "Q" is put on bed rest for 10 weeks and the entire time is negative and complains about everything. As for her family who lives abroad, she is negative about her father, mother, sister and her other sister's boyfriend....more
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.
It’s a pretty basic book. It’s 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 it’s not worth reading. It’s a light, fun book...more
It’s a pretty basic book. It’s 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 it’s not worth reading. It’s a light, fun book...more
The question on the cover is 'Can you live your life without leaving your bed?' I reckon I'd give it a fair shot.
I enjoyed this piece of chick-lit, read for light relief amonst a batch of serious books. Apart from anything else it's the first time I can remember seeing my favourite abusive name (Ratbag!) in print and there was also a lovely wistful description Q gives of her husband, sleeping on a mat on the floor 'wrapped up in a body that doesn't seem to belong to me any more'. However as a Bo...more
I enjoyed this piece of chick-lit, read for light relief amonst a batch of serious books. Apart from anything else it's the first time I can remember seeing my favourite abusive name (Ratbag!) in print and there was also a lovely wistful description Q gives of her husband, sleeping on a mat on the floor 'wrapped up in a body that doesn't seem to belong to me any more'. However as a Bo...more
Audiobook:
I listened to this one last summer and was mildly entertained.
I thought this was going to be more of a Sophie Kinsella laugh out loud funny type of book but it wasn't, although I would consider this "chicklit".
I love the cover art and that is what compelled me to download it. This book revolves around a very busy businesswoman who is ordered to bedrest for about 12 weeks until her baby is born due to high risk.
Not much going on in the way of action but alot of chitter chatter with sub...more
I listened to this one last summer and was mildly entertained.
I thought this was going to be more of a Sophie Kinsella laugh out loud funny type of book but it wasn't, although I would consider this "chicklit".
I love the cover art and that is what compelled me to download it. This book revolves around a very busy businesswoman who is ordered to bedrest for about 12 weeks until her baby is born due to high risk.
Not much going on in the way of action but alot of chitter chatter with sub...more
I picked this book up at the local dollar store for $3.00 - it was $3.00 well spent! It was fun, light reading and I often found myself laughing with the heroines self-degrading (especially when it came to the food) humor. I also found myself rooting for her as she tried to keep her fluids up and the baby inside of her for as long as possible.
And the ending...the ending was worthy of any chicklit novel. This book might not be the next great American novel, or cover "hard" subject matter like mur...more
And the ending...the ending was worthy of any chicklit novel. This book might not be the next great American novel, or cover "hard" subject matter like mur...more
Mar 29, 2010
Erin
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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I found this book an enjoyable, quick and witty read. It moves fast, yet kept me entertained. The book was sitting on the sale table at the library for .25 cents and I couldn't resist picking it up. I was pleasantly surprised to find it a bitter deeper than other books of similar genre. I don't want to give away any spoilers, but I was somewhat annoyed with the way most things wrapped up just a little too neatly. Overall, I'm looking forward to reading the sequel and finding out how what changes...more
Oh, this was so marvellous to read. A novel about a career woman and her first pregnancy, it's quite hilarious once the protagonist has to step away from normal worklife and stay, mostly, on a couch due to medical complications.
There's a maternal neighbor, a mother who flies in from jolly old England, and then there's the husband, who is driven as crazy as the pregnant one. I was laughing throughout most of the book, and that's a very good sign.
Book Season = Year Round
There's a maternal neighbor, a mother who flies in from jolly old England, and then there's the husband, who is driven as crazy as the pregnant one. I was laughing throughout most of the book, and that's a very good sign.
Book Season = Year Round
Bed Rest was a surprisingly disappointing novel. The characters created are highly realistic and even likeable, but the plot was definitely lacking. It's short (my edition is only 215 pages) but torturous for the reader. The main character, Q, is put on bedrest during her last three months of pregnancy. All she has to journal about is what takes place in her home--guests, relationships, etc. But ultimately, there is not enough of a storyline to warrant this long of a book.
It's unlikely I'll pick...more
It's unlikely I'll pick...more
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 American-born 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...more
A light but enjoyable tale of a lawyer who must stay in bed on her left side for the rest of her pregnancy or lose her baby. Gone are the frantic 90 hour workweeks at a ho-hum (but very well paid) job in Manhattan.
Life becomes very different for Q and she in turn changes as she finds new ways to occupy her time without leaving the couch. The question is, will her marriage and her family relationships survive her bed rest?
Life becomes very different for Q and she in turn changes as she finds new ways to occupy her time without leaving the couch. The question is, will her marriage and her family relationships survive her bed rest?
Mar 20, 2010
Angela
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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I loved this book! I read it in 3 days. I really enjoyed the diary entry style. That made it very easy for me to read because I am also pregnant (7 months) and can only read for a few minutes at bed time before I pass out, so I could easily stop reading at the end of a chapter. It also put my pregnancy aches and pains in perspective. At least I can still get up and walk around! Great book for anyone who is pregnant.
entertaining...thought the brandname nyc-centric thing brought compassion for Q down. the lack of actual communication between all the characters was jarring but it rang true. would have been nice if they had a plan for the kid like she had a list for her life before she was thirty. i will most likely be reading the follow up book if the library has it.
Jan 23, 2009
B
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
fiction-and-other-mental-getaways
3.5-4 stars. but will of course be most highly appreciated by women who have been / are on bedrest.
i just devoured this book yesterday. yes, this is the equivalent of a literary candy bar... but it was just what i needed :) bridget jones meets pregnancy hormones and bedrest with some enjoyable subplots. quick and easy read.
i just devoured this book yesterday. yes, this is the equivalent of a literary candy bar... but it was just what i needed :) bridget jones meets pregnancy hormones and bedrest with some enjoyable subplots. quick and easy read.
I listened to this book on CD so having it read with a British accent only enhances my opinion of it. I liked it though in all honesty. It was funny and I had great frustration on behalf of this woman confined to bed rest for 3 months while her workaholic husband essentially abandons her to neighbors, friends and families. There is a sequel to it that I am looking forward to.
Total bed rest for the last three months of pregnancy sounds like a boring premise for a novel, but for Quinn "Q" a young British lawyer married to an American lawyer and living in Manhattan it is anything but - lots of fun with some serious moments. Great on audio with the British accent.
I really liked this book. I'm not sure why, since I'm not pregnant nor will be for ever. But it was funny, and a little dramatic, and showed just how fast things can change when you get pregnant. And as one of the reviewers say "you don't have to be having a baby to enjoy this book". Check it out.
I liked this book. Often books make pregnancy look glamorous and easy. This book reminds us that many people have difficult pregnancies. I can't imagine months of bed rest, it would drive me crazy. The book also looks the effect of pregnancy on partners, something often overlooked.
Kind of boring. The characters need more depth and background information to make this story more interesting. Do not read if you are pregnant -the main character keeps thinking her baby is dead -due to low amniotic fluid. I would have been a worry-wart if I was pregnant and reading this book.
Just a quick fun read. Written in diary format there were parts I really identified with, but alas a complex story developed. I don't often read much chick-lit but I couldn't pass this one up, and it was worth the few hours of my time it took, for a few smiles:)
I really liked this book. Sure there were things that irritated me but for the most part it was interesting. I could relate to it a lot seeing as someone I know is currently going through a bad pregnancy.
I'll be checking out more books by this author in the future!
I'll be checking out more books by this author in the future!
Read this while a sick pregnant woman, in honor of my sister who recently did a 4-month stint on bed rest. It's light as air, pretty entertaining, and--you'll never guess!--the narrator finds a deeper perspective on her whole life as a result of her bed rest!
I experienced this story as an audiobook. Q's English-accent definately added to the story for me. I thought it was a sweet, if predicatable read. Without giving too much away, I was satisfied with the ending and enjoyed the supporting characters.
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