Marry Me: A Romance Book

I am in trouble, I am in big trouble. I can't do anything but read today. This is my second finished book for today and I fear of starting a new one, because I may accidentally finish it too. I need a prison bar over my bookshelves for a night.

I don't remember lately reading a book with such deep feelings showed. One word to describe the book - deep, this book was deep. It was so real. It seemed I was seating in a living room with these 4 people, and they were living their lives, talking, eating, thinking, being cheated - having me as a ghost in their houses, in their lives.
I love the way Updike created the people for this book. Two women - definitely the exact opposite of each other and two men letting these women decide how they should live.

"Men don't like to make decisions, they want God or women to make them."

The whole book is around this sentence. Well, they don't just say, decide instead of me, they just wait for the circumstances to decide how to act. And they want these circumstances to be created by their women.

I loved Ruth. Her way of making decisions, her perspectiveness of future life, her mature thinking, her way of building her family. The others were so weak - Jerry without a hint what to do, changing his mind every two minutes (I am sure he would change his mind again if the book had two-three more pages.); Sally without any idea what she wanted or if she knew what she wanted, was it what she needed?; and Richard too much into himself.

I have never read Updike before, but now I'm intrigued. The man creates a mood - the writing is so honest and straight, the story is so realistically true.