Finished plowing through Nick Hornby's How to be Good. The second half was a lot tougher going than the first -- as I mention in my comments after yesterday's post, I got so annoyed with the burgeoning self-righteousness of the protagonist's husband that I had to stop reading mid-way through.
I guess my repulsion was not unlike that of the protagonist herself. As the story progresses, she's brought to confront her own complacency and that of the people around her. And the plot's not wrapped up all nice and neatly at the end. Like I said, it was tough going, but it ultimately was a rewarding read.
(As for confronting my own complacency, well, let's not go there....)
I'm waffling between starting in on Simon Blackburn's Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics, which I bought last fall (when ethics was weighing heavily on my mind post 9/11), or breaking out that book on XHTML that I really "should" be reading. The "rational" thing would be to read the XHTML book, since the benefits accrued from that would be more immediate. Something like that.