I recently finished I Did (But I Wouldn't Now), by the same author who wrote I Do (But I Don 't). I can't remember her name right now and don't feel like looking it up. I definitely liked I Do better than I Did. Or maybe I just don't remember the first book that well. Lauren (I think) was the main character from I Do and I don't remember her has being as neurotic and insecure as she seems to be in I Don't. Her sister, Lily, is the main character in I Don't. I never got around to liking her, which really impacts how I feel about a book. If other things in the book, like plot, setting, secondary characters, etc. can make up for how I feel about the main character, there's a chance I might end up liking the book. That didn't really happen in this book. I just found myself not liking her when she did horrible things to her ex-husband. And her explaining away that she was a bad person, and that's why she did them, didn't make it any easier to excuse her behavior.
The other book I read, The Sad Truth About Happiness, was this month's book club book. We meet on Monday, so I'm pretty pleased with myself that I finished the book on Saturday afternoon. I had to sit in on a Yu-Gi-Oh! event (don't ask) so it was a nice way to pass the time. The book itself was a little odd and left a few things kind of open at the end that I wish had been a little more summed up. One of the main things in the book was that she took this quiz that said she was going to die by the end of the year unless she was able to change the answer to one question: are you happy. After taking that quiz you hear about her life, but it doesn't seem like she makes any changes in her life overtly to be happier. It's kind of hard to explain, but there doesn't seem to be enough explanation about how she goes about being happier. Obviously she is b/c she doesn't die, or maybe the quiz was flawed to begin with, but those questions are never really answered. Maybe I'm supposed to be more intuitive and glean that from the events in the book, but it was all rather vague. I'll be interested to see what other people at book club thught about it.
At the moment, since I just finished my book club book, I'm not reading anything. I have a few books lying around though, so I'm sure one of them will appeal to me.
