How to be Good
5 journalers for this copy...
If I understood English enough, it was very intresting and the subject, too.
From the cover: Nick Hornby has raised his game...a good, dark espresso-strength comedy that nobody else could have written.
Paperback. 2001.
From the cover: Nick Hornby has raised his game...a good, dark espresso-strength comedy that nobody else could have written.
Paperback. 2001.
Journal Entry 2 by Ecru at Cafe Caisa in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Monday, October 29, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (10/25/2007 UTC) at Cafe Caisa in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland
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Jätin kirjan tapaamisessa pöydälle Cafe Caisassa.
Jätin kirjan tapaamisessa pöydälle Cafe Caisassa.
Journal Entry 3 by JonAsp from Kaarina, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Wednesday, December 26, 2007
I was the one who picked up the book but due to the limited access to internet haven't been able to make a journal entry until now. My apologies. At the moment the book is stuck in the middle of my "to be read" pile and will come to the top eventually...
Journal Entry 4 by JonAsp from Kaarina, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Saturday, February 16, 2008
Seethroughfaith is loaning this book for a while, but I hope to see it again sometime. My husband already read this and liked it a lot.
Journal Entry 5 by seethroughfaith from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Saturday, February 16, 2008
So funny :) I had the Finnish version of this -and released it to JonAsp as a ray - only to get this one (in English) back from her at the same meeting.
ON LOAN
ON LOAN
Journal Entry 6 by seethroughfaith from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
this is being loaned to Hippolein as Ihaven't had time to read it yet. But it comes back to me before going back to JonAsp
Journal Entry 7 by seethroughfaith at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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for you to borrow
for you to borrow
thank you very much seethroughfaith for borrowing this book to me.
now I have both versions here at home, original and the finnish translation...
will try not to keep it forever :-)
now I have both versions here at home, original and the finnish translation...
will try not to keep it forever :-)
Finished the book on the way to work.
Was a very special read, the start was a bit hard to get through, but towards the middle you get the idea what the book is about and at the end most of the loose parts fit together and make very well sense.
Thank you for letting me read it in English, was worth the trouble and gives some subjects to think about during this period of Advent and waiting for Christmas to come!
Was a very special read, the start was a bit hard to get through, but towards the middle you get the idea what the book is about and at the end most of the loose parts fit together and make very well sense.
Thank you for letting me read it in English, was worth the trouble and gives some subjects to think about during this period of Advent and waiting for Christmas to come!
Journal Entry 10 by 
hippolein
at -- Por correo -- In the mail --, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain on Saturday, December 20, 2008
hippolein at -- Por correo -- In the mail --, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain on Saturday, December 20, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (12/20/2008 UTC) at -- Por correo -- In the mail --, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain
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This book travels slowly back to Turku, thanks to Niksu who will hand it to Seethroughfaith.
This book travels slowly back to Turku, thanks to Niksu who will hand it to Seethroughfaith.
Journal Entry 11 by seethroughfaith from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Tuesday, December 23, 2008
back with me now. Glad you enjoyed it H.
Journal Entry 12 by seethroughfaith at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Saturday, November 13, 2010
OK I finally got to read this - and really enjoyed it. It made me laugh and cry ... and hit the spot!
Journal Entry 13 by seethroughfaith at Hansakortteli in Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Monday, November 22, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (11/26/2010 UTC) at Hansakortteli in Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland
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There's a small shelf (low down) near the cashdesk ... the book will be there. Buy something sweet for the weekend and then sit down and ENJOY both. This is a great read!
Journal Entry 14 by potok-fan at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Saturday, December 4, 2010
Hello stf! Mr P & I stopped by Little Brittainia today - he chose mince pies and I chose this. I'm a bit confused reading through the JEs about whether or not JonAsp wanted to have this book back.
I guess JA will get an email about this journal entry, so just PM me if you do want the book again, and I'll be happy to pass it along! Otherwise, I'll release it again somehow once I've read it.
I guess JA will get an email about this journal entry, so just PM me if you do want the book again, and I'll be happy to pass it along! Otherwise, I'll release it again somehow once I've read it.
Journal Entry 15 by potok-fan at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Wednesday, January 19, 2011
If you are the kind of person whose choice of entertainment is governed by ease of parking, then I thoroughly recommend Anglican Sunday services. You can arrive at five to ten for a ten o'clock service, and you're away by two minutes past eleven. Anyone who's had to wait for an hour in the Wembley car park after a Spice Girls concert may find this attractive.
It has everything I want. The vicar is indeed a kindly middle-aged lady who seems vaguely ashamed of her beliefs; the sparsity of the congregation, and its apparent lack of interest in anything or anyone, allows us to sit towards the back and pretend that we're nothing to do with anything or anybody.
I have never been to an ordinary church service before. It all feels a long way from God. It feels sad, exhausted, defeated; this place may have been God's house once, you want to tell the handful of people here, but He's clearly moved, shut up shop, gone to a place where there's more of a demand for that sort of thing. And then you look around and wonder whether the sadness isn't part of the point... These people are the hardcore, the last WASPs in Holloway, the beaten and the lonely and the bereaved, and if there is a place for them in the Kingdom of Heaven, they deserve it. I just hope that it's warmer there than here, and there is more hope, and youth, and there is no need for bring-and-buy sales, and the choir of angels isn't singing somewhere else that day, but you rather fear it might be; C of E heaven is in all probability a quarter-full of unhappy old ladies selling misshapen rock cakes and scratched Mantovani records. Every day of the week, for all eternity.
I laughed out loud at these pages (184-193) about the visit to church. It's funny ... and sad, and rings true ... and false (at what church would you get an Epistle reading *after* the sermon??), and, well, again - it was funny! In the church's defense, both Katie and Mark have deliberately gone looking for someplace dreary. It's the lack of conviction I want, of course says Katie. And David agrees: I'm afraid that if I go to a good one I'll get sucked in.
An Evangelical Christian might point to Luke 14 and say that anyone not wanting to get sucked in completely cannot be a disciple. But what would a Liberal Christian say to Katie or David? Or to that priest, described by David as "one wafer short of a communion"? I wonder!
It has everything I want. The vicar is indeed a kindly middle-aged lady who seems vaguely ashamed of her beliefs; the sparsity of the congregation, and its apparent lack of interest in anything or anyone, allows us to sit towards the back and pretend that we're nothing to do with anything or anybody.
I have never been to an ordinary church service before. It all feels a long way from God. It feels sad, exhausted, defeated; this place may have been God's house once, you want to tell the handful of people here, but He's clearly moved, shut up shop, gone to a place where there's more of a demand for that sort of thing. And then you look around and wonder whether the sadness isn't part of the point... These people are the hardcore, the last WASPs in Holloway, the beaten and the lonely and the bereaved, and if there is a place for them in the Kingdom of Heaven, they deserve it. I just hope that it's warmer there than here, and there is more hope, and youth, and there is no need for bring-and-buy sales, and the choir of angels isn't singing somewhere else that day, but you rather fear it might be; C of E heaven is in all probability a quarter-full of unhappy old ladies selling misshapen rock cakes and scratched Mantovani records. Every day of the week, for all eternity.
I laughed out loud at these pages (184-193) about the visit to church. It's funny ... and sad, and rings true ... and false (at what church would you get an Epistle reading *after* the sermon??), and, well, again - it was funny! In the church's defense, both Katie and Mark have deliberately gone looking for someplace dreary. It's the lack of conviction I want, of course says Katie. And David agrees: I'm afraid that if I go to a good one I'll get sucked in.
An Evangelical Christian might point to Luke 14 and say that anyone not wanting to get sucked in completely cannot be a disciple. But what would a Liberal Christian say to Katie or David? Or to that priest, described by David as "one wafer short of a communion"? I wonder!
