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How to be Good by Nick Hornby 60. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (17/07/09)
This was one of those books that I catch myself coming back to and thinking about again and again in the days and weeks after closing its pages.
Katie is discontented in her marriage, and sick of her husband’s anger, and this story shows the ... 34. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger in English
35. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby in English ... a big gap for me, but nothing 'out there' has yet made me take the leap.
I noticed in your first post that you Hornby's How to Be Good - have you read any of his other works? He's one of my favorite authors. ... qu'elle ne tombe qui a reçu un excellent accueil critique?
De Nick Hornby, je recommande aussi A long way down et How to be good. Je suis plus modérée pour High fidelity que toutes les références musicales ne m'ont pas permis d'apprécier... 6- Nick Hornby - Mein Leben als Leser
Recueil de chroniques publiées dans un journal britannique, où Hornby relatait toutes les semaines ses lectures et acquisitions littéraires. Il m'a mis sur la piste de Martin Amis et de Jonathan Coe.
7- Jonathan Coe - Les nains de la mort
Son ... ... until I can catch up. (Just thought I would explain why #22 is after #14!)
ellie - I definitely would not recommend How to Be Good as a vacation book! Book 22: How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (2002)
Information: Fiction
Read: May 16, 2009 - May 19, 2009
Rating: ★★★
Summary
This is the story ... ... LOVED! I can't recommend it highly enough. (Is that grammatically correct??)
Last night I started Nick Hornby's How to Be Good. I'm rationing his books I haven't read yet, but since I'm in that "staring at the ceiling" phase of being 9 months pregnant, I'm treating myself. Hope to ... ... World to Come by Dara Horn
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Yhe Diary of Ellen Rimbauer by Joyce Reardon
How to be Good by Nick Hornby
The Consul's File by Paul Theroux
The Family Arsenal by Paul Theroux
Now I have a question about the last Theroux book.It ... No 11 was my Easter weekend read - great too, loved it
How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
Highly recommend that one
... Hornby
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
10. Blaze - Stephen King
11. Duma Key - Stephen King
12. How To Be Good - Nick Hornby
13. Different Seasons - Stephen King
As you may have guessed I am quite the fan of Stephen King and Nick Hornby. I am more than willing ... #45 How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
320 pages
I had no access to my computer for some time at the weekend, so I had to reread ... ... The Remains of the Day or The Hobbit, or I could (and happily would) re-read Anne of Green Gables, My Antonia,How To Be Good, or any novels by Jane Austen. This genre is so varied and colorful, I think it will be real fun to read it when I get there! I'm quite excited about it!:) ... ... by Amy Dickinson
6.Do You Remember The First Time by Jenny Colgan
7.I Smile Back by Amy Koppelman
8. How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
9. We'll Always Be Pals by Tom McManus
10. A Christmas Journey by Anne Perry
11. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gai ... ... not read it, it truly is an amazing story that I think everyone should read at least once. Thanks, all; happy mooching!
How to be Good, Nick Hornby
Loves Music, Loves to Dance, Mary Higgins Clark (Hardcover)
A Prisoner of Birth, Jeffrey Archer (Hardcover)
From Potter's Field, Patrici ... ... not read it, it truly is an amazing story that I think everyone should read at least once. Thanks, all; happy mooching!
How to be Good, Nick Hornby
Loves Music, Loves to Dance, Mary Higgins Clark (Hardcover)
A Prisoner of Birth, Jeffrey Archer (Hardcover)
From Potter's Field, Patrici ... ... Joan: Hope Was Here
Chiaverini, Jennifer: Master Quilter
Flagg, Fannie: Standing in the Rainbow
Hornby, Nick: How To Be Good
Kidd, Sue Monk: Secret Life of Bees
Landis, Catherine: Some Days There's Pie
Goudge, Elizabeth: The Child From the Sea
Gulley, Phillip: Home to H ... ... the movie cos one of my uni mates was in it! - and I like High Fidelity the movie, and I've got A Long Way Down and How to Be Good on my TBR pile... but so far this caps them all! ... the movie cos one of my uni mates was in it! - and I like High Fidelity the movie, and I've got A Long Way Down and How to Be Good on my TBR pile... but so far this caps them all. nohrt4me, I'm all the more excited about How to Be Good now you've recommended it! I ordered it online yesterday, but I reckon it's gonna take a while to arrive, since it's gonna be imported and all, but I hope I'll be as excited then as I am now to read it!
Well, I understood more musical and ... I liked "A Long Way Down," and have distributed several copies to friends who have felt at the ends of their tethers.
How to Be Good is also quite good, and very funny.
What are some of the things you noticed after your second read?
I think it will be interesting to see how well Hornby's ... ...
3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
4. Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill finished 2/27
5. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
6. On Writing by Stephen King finished 7/31
7. Anonymous Rex by Eric Garcia
8. Casual Rex by Eric ... ... by Amy Dickinson
6.Do You Remember The First Time by Jenny Colgan
7.I Smile Back by Amy Koppelman
8. How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
9. We'll Always Be Pals by Tom McManus
10. A Christmas Journey by Anne Perry
11. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gai ... ... Incident of the Dog in the Night finished March
7.3 Scaramouche not an award winner, but finished September
7.4 How to Be Good not an award winner, but finished Octoer 34. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
35. How to be Good by Nick Hornby
Including today I still have 3 more days left in 2008 so I plan to try and add a few more books to this total and see what my total number of books read in 2008 is going to be.
Beatles1964 ... (5/12)
21. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, ★★★★★ (5/16)
22. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby, ★★★ (5/19)
23. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguru, ★★★★1/2 (5/28)
24. Whose Freedom? by George Lakoff, â ... How to be Good by Nick Hornby
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Kiss Me Deadly by Mickey Spillane
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 134. Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me by Martin Millar
135. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby Frugal Food Delia Smith
Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas
If the Old Could Doris Lessing
How To Be Good Nick Hornby
An Estonian Childhood Tania Alexander From BookMooch:
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
From B&N:
On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Remaindered hardcover, so it was on the bargan table)
The Accidental by Ali Smith (audiobook, also on the bargain table)
And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander
The Assault by Harry Mulisch
So ... Finished A Long Way Down and loved it. I need to find a copy of About a Boy now. I read How to be Good and didn't like it so much, but High Fidelity is one of my all-time favorite books.
I am reading The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong now. So far, so good. ... arrived on my doorstep, and today our public library was having a 'pay what you can' book sale so I picked up copies of How to be Good by Nick Hornby, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin, Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella, Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison ... 24. HOW TO BE GOOD by Nick Hornby - This was a story about Katie and David Carr getting thru a difficult phase in their marriage . Its told from Katie's point of view . Its a funny and thought-provoking story of what happens when your spouse goes thru a change in their beliefs . In the end the ... I'm starting How To Be Good today . Should be a fun read ! ... for as long as I can without embarrassment, and then stare at my notes intently, as if there might be something in them.
How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
"Could you do it when you were my age?" How to be good by Nick Hornby My first post, hoping it works. Reading Nick Hornby's How to Be Good. Laughed out loud for a solid five minutes during one passage. Soda pop, for you I would recommend How to be Good by Nick Hornby.
Clam, anything by Graham Greene, especially The heart of the Matter or The End of the Affair. How to be Good by Nick Hornby ... Lehmann-Haupt. The book really had almost nothing about Joe DiMaggio, and should have been called Me Pretending To Be A Sportswriter and Annoying Everybody. He only used DiMaggio's name in the title to trick people into buying it. Disgraceful. 54. How to be Good by Nick Hornby
55. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
56. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke ... me into a reader--I read every single one in the first grade and never looked back.
This weekend I am sort of reading How to be Good, but it's not really working for me. A real-life relationship crisis is making what should be a very funny book seem very, very depressing and scary. I need ... How to be Good by Nick Hornby ... looking for a cheerful read I wouldn't suggest Oryx and Crake.
>77: studio1
I loved High Fidelity too, but I hated How to be good. I've really enjoyed a lot of Nick Hornby's books and am still a big fan, but I couldn't stand that book.
I just finished Like Water for Chocolate ... I just have to chime in to say that I found How to be Good to be worthwhile entertainment. It's certainly not the best book I've ever read, but I don't really understand all the harsh criticism. Of course, it's actually the only one of Hornby's novels I've read, so maybe it's just suffering in ... I second (Third?) earlier comments on How to be Good. Not Hornby's best work, at all. High Fidelity and About a Boy are much better. I'm reading How to Be Good by Nick Hornby, and I just don't understand. I LOVED High Fidelity, I enjoyed A Long Way Down, I read his Believer column consistently.
So, why do I want to throw this book at the wall in a fit of annoyance? How to Be Good by Nick Hornby No Nudes Is Good Nudes by P.G. Wodehouse
No Bone Unturned - The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons by Jeff Benedict
Learning Not To Be First - The Life of Christina Rossetti by Kathleen Jones
Nowhere in Africa ... No splits. :)
Happy to Be Here by Garrison Keillor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette I enjoy reading Nick Hornby. His sense of humour, his use of irony and even sarcasm appeals to me. I did like How to be Good. The story was entertaining and engaging while at the same time it had a sense of poignancy which got me involved. ... by Jay McInerney
37. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
38. The Tent by Margaret Atwood
39. How to be Good by Nick Hornby
40. We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
41. The Book of Names by Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori
42. A Million Lit ... I finished How to Be Good by Nick Hornby last week. Eh. I didn't think it was very good.
Now I'm listening to The Secret River by Kate Grenville. Excellent thus far! ... Oates
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Everything You Know Zoe Heller
Spadework by Timothy Findley
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
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My Sister's Keeper a novel about morality of medical technology
Dances with Dependency about aboriginal policy
in Canada
... >138: cabegley, I agree with your assessment of How to be Good. I thoroughly enjoyed About a Boy and High Fidelity, so was disappointed with How to be Good. I finished listening to How to Be Good by Nick Hornby yesterday. I'm not sure why I bothered to finish it--it wasn't terribly good.
Today I started listening to The Secret River by Kate Grenville, an LT-inspired "read." I'm still reading Trollope's The Way We Live Now. ... E.M. Forster and Jane Austen when I was a teenager. Oh, I also enjoyed some works by Nick Hornby, particularly How to be Good, About a Boy and High Fidelity. Didn't care much for the movie versions of the latter two, though.
... her story, when you finally got to it, wasn't about her. Not a bad book, mind you--just not a very good one.
I started How to Be Good by Nick Hornby today. So far I'm engaged. ... not as good as I'd hoped. Lisey was a bit of a nonentity for me. (Even her story was not about her.) I started listening to How to Be Good by Nick Hornby on the way home. And I'm still reading The Bounty by Caroline Alexander, which is completely absorbing. another thought in the absurdist vein: The Good Soldier Shveik and The Charterhouse of Parma ... Armchair Philosopher by Julian Baggini, Watching the English by Kate Fox; on terrific sale: a hardcover copy of How to be Good by Nick Hornby and Encarta Concise English Dictionary. i'm reading now The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman--so far, i'm thrilled. these are my ...
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