it's now 4:08 in the morning. i can't sleep. what i love to do is read myself to sleep. this elegant plan has one flaw, in that i will stay up the entire night reading if i really enjoy the book. i just picked up "how to be good," by nick hornby, which i had picked up hardcover for only 5.99 in the bargain books section of barnes and noble. i haven't decided if i like it yet... but it is a good book, and it is certainly riveting, seeing as i have been reading it for the past hour and a half. i finally stopped because i know that if i continued i wouldn't sleep until i had finished it, and i'm only about halfway through. jeez... i'm not tired at all now. what do i do?

as for liking it or not, whether or not a book is "good" or not has no bearing on my feelings toward it. much of that is based on the ending of books (and movies, too, but that's besides the point). i really don't like sad endings. i think every book with a realistic ending should have an alternative happy ending. but that's just me.