How To Be Good – Nick Hornby: Depressingly Good
A review of ‘How to be good’ by Nick Hornby
Anger
The Way Out Of Anger
Angry men, so many angry men. I want nothing to do with them. More important, I want to be nothing like them.
I’m Declaring War On The Introverts
You don’t get to excuse yourself from the life table if you’re still partaking of its delights. Are you an introvert or just a narcissist?
A Laundered Life
I feel like my life is being scrubbed with a very hard brush and industrial-strength detergent.
Looking For Peace
I sat on the grass for a long time. It felt like it, as I breathed every second that passed. Even the quest for peace is unfamiliar.
You Aren’t Being My Friend
To my friends in so many places, I’m upset. Badly so. I’m not okay with your calling me only when you have problems in your love life. I’m struck even worse by the fact that you have no time to hear about my love life problems or worse, that you…
Goodbyes And Other Wounds
Not a good time. Not a good mood. December always gets me down. Even though the fabulousness of my life must make me seem like a crank for complaining. It’s too many people, too many expectations, too much to consider and keep track of. They say a man (person) is…
Palette Of Emotion
I relate to emotion visually. Humiliation is a mottled dark green flecked with brownish-red. Peace is a silvery pool with traces of blue.
Trust, Actually
If I’m a fool to trust you, what does that say about you? ~O~O~O~O~O~O~ Nobody’s born suspicious. We trust because we think other people are the way we are. Then someone hurts us and we think everyone else is that way. Treat every suspicious person you meet, gently. Maybe they’ve…
So There, Needy!
You may want to feel needed,But that’s no reason to make me feel needy. It doesn’t say much about your masculinity,if it feels threatened by my independence. I’d rather be alonethan with someone who needs to change meI’d rather be alonethan be someone other than myself.