How to be Good

by Nick Hornby | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 1573221937 Global Overview for this book
Registered by heartsong2 on 8/21/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by heartsong2 on Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Katie Carr is a good person. She recycles. She's against racism. She's a good doctor, a good mom, a good wife....well, maybe not that last one, considering she's having an affair and has just requested a divorce via cell phone. But who could blame her? For years her husband's been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed, writing the "Angriest Man in Holloway" column for their local paper.

But now David's changed. He's become a good person, too-really good. He's found a spiritual leader. He has become kind, soft-spoken, and earnest. He's even got a homeless kid set up in the spare room. Katie isn't sure if this is a deeply-felt conversion, a brain tumor-or David's most brilliantly vicious manipulation yet. Because she's finding it more and more difficult to live with David-and with herself.

Journal Entry 2 by heartsong2 on Tuesday, August 21, 2007
At first, I was thinking this was a really great story, really identifying with her crisis as a professional, parent, wife... but then I thought it got to be too much after awhile, and too depressing. I wanted to shake her up and say, enough already! Figure it out and move on!

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