Project Hail Mary is a fun and imaginative story of an interstellar mission to save the world from a hungry alien life form that is eating the sun’s energy. This is author Andy Weir’s f…| Book Thoughts from Bed
Happy New Year, everyone! Have you ever seen those reading lists “52 Categories of Books to Read this Year”? They are populated with categories like “Read a book that takes place…| Book Thoughts from Bed
4 posts published by mmelland during May 2019| Book Thoughts from Bed
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Beartown is Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel about life in a small town where hockey is king and winners are revered, sometimes at the expense of the people they have hurt. The author expl…| Book Thoughts from Bed
With Anxious People, Fredrik Backman, who also wrote A Man Called Ove, delivers another poignant and insightful novel about what it means to be decent (albeit “anxious”) people. He even…| Book Thoughts from Bed
A Man Called Ove is a story that reminds us that everyone has a personal history that has shaped them, most everyone has redeeming qualities that you can uncover if you try hard enough, and life is…| Book Thoughts from Bed
3 posts published by mmelland during July 2025| Book Thoughts from Bed
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult, coming of age story that explores the challenges of being a young teenager through the eyes of a guy named Charlie. While I’m not in the target audience for the novel, I did admire that it tackled some tough issues, including mental health, homosexuality, drug […]| Book Thoughts from Bed
My Friends is chock-full of the wisdom and poignancy we’ve come to expect from Fredrik Backman. This time, he uses his insightful storytelling skills to spin the tale of four teenage friends …| Book Thoughts from Bed
Hello! It’s that time of year again – time to reveal the 2022 Thoughtful Reading Challenge!| Book Thoughts from Bed
With Chenneville, author Paulette Jiles, who also wrote News of the World, delivers another immersive, Civil War era historical fiction novel. This one is centered on John Chenneville, a Union officer who wakes up in a Virginia hospital after suffering a severe head injury during a battle. The story follows John as he returns to […]| Book Thoughts from Bed
We Solve Murders is a hilarious romp through the worlds of money smuggling, Internet influencers, hired hitmen, and rogue security agencies. Author Richard Osman, who also wrote The Thursday Murder…| Book Thoughts from Bed
There’s a good reason World War II fiction is such a popular book genre. The war was a classic case of good versus evil, with both heroic and haunting moments to read and write about.| Book Thoughts from Bed
Life After Life explores the concept of reincarnation and how simple decisions can fundamentally alter the course of one’s life. Although I mostly liked it, the story got bogged down in the m…| Book Thoughts from Bed
All the Light We Cannot See is a beautifully written, poignant story set in Europe during World War II. It tells the story of how a blind, French girl and an orphaned German boy experience the war.| Book Thoughts from Bed
The Last Bookshop in London is a historical fiction novel set in London during the German blitzkrieg of World War II. The story explores how the power of a good book can temporarily soothe anxiety …| Book Thoughts from Bed
In The Broken Girls, freelance journalist Fiona Sheridan takes on a story about the renovation of a long-shuttered girls boarding school and suddenly finds herself investigating a 64-year-old murder, as well. An original plot plus an eerie paranormal element make The Broken Girls an engaging murder mystery. This post may contain Amazon Affiliate links. As […]| Book Thoughts from Bed
The Night We Lost Him is a suspense novel highly focused on the complexities of family and romantic relationships. When Nora Noone’s father falls off a cliff at his seaside home, her half-bro…| Book Thoughts from Bed
The Martian is a hugely entertaining novel about an astronaut who is stranded on Mars and has to rely mostly on his own ingenuity to survive and eventually get rescued. It’s funny and hopeful…| Book Thoughts from Bed
Charm. This book has loads of it. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is set right after the end of WWII and tells the story of a woman author who discovers a unique group of people o…| Book Thoughts from Bed
A Flicker in the Dark is an entertaining suspense novel that explores what it’s like to be a family member of a serial killer. Just when psychologist Chloe Davis thinks her father’s reign of terror is in the distant past, girls begin disappearing again. Are these the acts of a copycat killer, or is something […]| Book Thoughts from Bed
CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton pitched a story to CBS: he would visit all the US National Parks within a year and film his experiences. Leave Only Footprints is a humorous and interesting memoir of his adventures. If you’re looking for something meaty about the National Parks, this is probably not the right book […]| Book Thoughts from Bed
I Must Betray You is a gripping, historical young adult novel about a teenage boy’s struggle for freedom in the final days of Romania’s oppressive communist regime. It shines a bright l…| Book Thoughts from Bed
In Rock Paper Scissors, a married couple travels to Scotland to attempt to salvage their relationship. Instead of being the free, cozy vacation they were hoping for, they find themselves stranded by a snowstorm in a creepy old church. Can their marriage survive? Can THEY survive? This post may contain Amazon Affiliate links. As an […]| Book Thoughts from Bed
I’m excited to present the 2025 Thoughtful Reading Challenge, and doubly happy that I’m still around to host it! Each year, Book Thoughts From Bed hosts a low pressure book challenge de…| Book Thoughts from Bed
The Fault in Our Stars is best-selling author John Green’s hugely popular young adult novel about two teenage cancer patients who find each other and fall in love. I was so happy that the boo…| Book Thoughts from Bed
The Secret Life of Bees is a charming coming of age story set in South Carolina in 1964. The story follows young Lily and her black nanny, Rosaleen, as they escape an oppressive household and seek …| Book Thoughts from Bed
The Thursday Murder Club is a charming and poignant mystery novel full of great characters, amusing scenes and dialog, and multiple, hard-to-solve murders. With a strong theme of the worries that a…| Book Thoughts from Bed
Reading challenges are fun ways to expand the scope of what you typically read by introducing you to new authors and genres. Book Thoughts from Bed has hosted an annual book challenge for several y…| Book Thoughts from Bed
