Twenty-one Truths About Love

Ah, I like this one.

Mind you, it's very Bridget-Jones-ish and it can get repetitive. But it's also...I don't know, sincere? The character comes across as completely and totally genuine and his worries are completely and totally...well, worrisome. It's set with school teachers as characters and they, too, are believably real.

Dan has issues, lots of issues, more and more with every page as you read along, and he's in a mess, and he can't think of a way out. He quit his secure job as a teacher in which he was wildly unhappy and unsuited and started his own bookstore business which is also floundering. His wife wants a baby but he's not sure he will be much of a dad.

So he starts this book of lists, and it's funny and sad and everything we like in a book.