"Katie Carr, doctor (and self-declared "good person"), has just had an affair. It's not really her fault; she is, after all, married to David: angry, cynical, negative (though undeniable funny) and a real pain to live with. But then David meets DJ GoodNews, astonishingly effective faith healer and do-gooder of the unbearably smug kind. And now David is good. Too good actually: "a liberal's worst nightmare", he starts to put theory into practice giving away their kids'toys, reaching out to the hopeless and homeless in a very personal and, for Katie, disturbing way."

Reserved for greenbadger's Alphabet VBB.

Sent to Russbaum, who picked it from the Alphabet VBB.
Enjoy! :)

Received safely and I am sure I will enjoy it.
It's going straight to the top of my bedside pile. Thanks.

Um, sadly I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I had hoped. It was a mildly entertaining (in parts) but just didn't really keep me gripped. An intellectually curious view of life for a young married woman with kids, written by a man in his mid-40s and I was fascinated to understand how he got inside the character but that's where my interest ended.

Posted from London, UK to Delphi, GREECE to Delphi_reader as part of the Bookcrossing First Sentence VBB.

Hope it arrives safely and you enjoy it.

How To Be Good arrived in Delphi yesterday. I've read some books by Nick Hornby, but this one is new to me. Thank you very much!

First Sentence:
I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him any more.

I haven't realise that I've read this book before, but some scenes felt familiar and searching around, I found another, older copy of the book on my shelves.

Usually Nick Hornby's characters tend to be odd and weird somehow, but here I felt that they were just odd and unreal, without any other trait to write home about, so they didn't win me over. The plot didn't enthused me either, especially after using some kind of metaphysical -or supernatural or whatever you may call it- twist to set things into motion.

I appreciated what the author tried to do but I felt that somehow he lost the plot, both literally and metaphorically. The pace of the book is uneven, the narrator's voice and the themes of the book and the way Hornby treated both these themes and the narrator's character irked me, while the ending was kind of disappointing. I think this book keeps making circles that lead nowhere and the ride is not particularly pleasant.

All that said, I liked parts of the book and the author's wit surfaces here and there. It provides food for thought too. I just think that this novel isn't very memorable and certainly it's not this author's best!

The book got itchy feet again and wants to explore the whole wide wild world! So for a start off to the Akron Family Reading Festival in Ohio, USA it goes!
And then... Who knows?

Good Luck and Don't forget to write your news from time to time!

Arrived in plenty of time for release at the Akron Family Reading Festival!

Look for the Rubber City Book Posse tables!