How to be Good
How to be Good by Nick Hornby.
A 1st person narrative told by a female 40+ doctor who is going thru the mid-life crisis of the stale relations and dull family life. Two kids, rapidly approaching their teens.
Her plight is further aggrieved by her husband who all of a sudden drastically changes his lifestyle aspiring “to be good”. An angry cynic, he turns into a pious (almost religious) do-gooder, who gives away her money and invites the homeless to stay, and preaches it into the bargain in a hostile, rather bourgeois environment.
She takes it as a proverbial test à la “for better or for worse until death do us part”, and it adds fuel to her life, and she rediscovers her family as her only true value. Hurray!
When your own battery is flat you hang on to somebody else (or whatever you have) to carry on.
To me the book ended nowhere, promising new life discomforts for the protagonist; but the book is worth reading only if to make sure that you do much better than this.
P.S. And it is packed with vocabulary stretching far beyond the 5 thousand words in our everyday use.
A 1st person narrative told by a female 40+ doctor who is going thru the mid-life crisis of the stale relations and dull family life. Two kids, rapidly approaching their teens.
Her plight is further aggrieved by her husband who all of a sudden drastically changes his lifestyle aspiring “to be good”. An angry cynic, he turns into a pious (almost religious) do-gooder, who gives away her money and invites the homeless to stay, and preaches it into the bargain in a hostile, rather bourgeois environment.
She takes it as a proverbial test à la “for better or for worse until death do us part”, and it adds fuel to her life, and she rediscovers her family as her only true value. Hurray!
When your own battery is flat you hang on to somebody else (or whatever you have) to carry on.
To me the book ended nowhere, promising new life discomforts for the protagonist; but the book is worth reading only if to make sure that you do much better than this.
P.S. And it is packed with vocabulary stretching far beyond the 5 thousand words in our everyday use.