On losing weight and being good

At this rate, I have probably read almost all of the books in my sister's shelf. The rest I do not find that interesting.

I find it more interesting reading about the love lives of other people, for lack of one. Maybe someday I will have a boyfriend, or even a husband and a family, but it will never be as glamorous as book romances. Because book romances aren't real, at least in my point of view. Marriage in real life is boring, and you get to hate each other once you've been together long enough. You also don't get to have as much sex as when you were newlyweds. Maybe that's why so many people are into pre-marital sex. By the time the children are old enough and leave home, you two are just old and don't have the energy to go at it. Besides, who'd want to look at each other's sagging, naked flesh?

How to be Good is a story about a married couple, and it's not at all an exciting story about them. In fact, they are tired of each other but soon realize that they would be worse off if they divorce, so they don't. Instead, the husband finds a renewed spiritual purpose in life, and the wife puts up with it. The ending is anti-climatic, but it is so very reminiscent of real life.