Me too Regal. The books are painful.
I'm officially reading The Stand Also still reading a Breath of Snow and Ashes but I'm treating the entire series as one enormous book so I just take breaks from time to time to change things up a bit.
I'm reading Painted Girls and it's really good so far. I usually go to the book store and take photos of all the books I want to read, then go to the library and put holds/requests on the books I want.
I've been hate-reading them (you know, glowering at every page, rolling one's eyes every second paragraph, lots of exasperated sighs, etc ) because even though the writing is so awful, I always get a bit obsessed to know what happens to a character. This series got so bad that I thought I was fine to just skip the final book, but I was looking for something silly and fun so I thought I might as well. Except that it was so dumb on so many levels that I didn't really get an escape, just a bad facial tic as I got more and more annoyed that any editor let this get published.
I don't mind me some fun "trashy" fiction, but I kind of resent it when a book feels very much like the author just got lazy, you know?
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory.
Sound good Kmbaby Let us know how it goes.
My favorite place to read is in bed. I'll usually get in early as not to disturb/put off dh once he gets in. Once he falls asleep, I pull the Kindle out again lol
I own His Dark Materials - I want to read that series sometime.
I'm halfway through The Stand. Long book but a page turner.
I know Narnia, but not Eragon. Narnia is lovely - a real classic.
Does it matter if it is YA or not?
For YA, I could suggest:
The Wildwood series by Colin Meloy,
The Apothecary and The Apprentice by Maile Meloy (unrelated, just same last name)
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman