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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
HERMOSA LIBRO, es de los pocos que releería mil veces pero por la belleza de las ilustraciones y su concepto en sí. La historia no es tan memorable anyways
Wow. This book tore my heart to pieces. I'm so in love with the way this was written. The illustrations are beautiful and the writing is amazing. This was heartwarming and funny and heartbreaking all in one. I fell in love and out of love right along with Min. This book is super easy to get through and it's SO worth it. Not every relationship is perfect. Not every love is real. I've experienced a broken heart, and I'm glad this book is so realistic. It's relatable in a lot of the emotions. So glad I finally chose to read this after putting it off for so long <3
Min Green is a junior at Hellman High School - though she doesn't seem to be your typical high school student - coffee-addicted, fanatical about those vintagey, out-of-the-way shops, and obsessed with movies from the 30's (?) She spends her time with her "arty" or "different" group of friends who like to plan dinner parties with extensive themes and exotic foods. Min meets (and later begins dating, and absolutely falls stupidly in love with) Ed Slaterton - senior, co-captain of the basketball team, most popular guy in school, and complete opposite of Min, at one of these parties. Why We Broke Up is exactly what it says it is, it's a letter accompanying a box of trinkets from Ed and Min's short relationship; a letter detailing what everying in the box is, and why Min is giving it all back. It's Min's narrative on every big date, lazy afternoon, or important moment in the time they spent together, what it meant to her, and why she can't keep it anymore.
It's the oldest story, right? This mis-matched couple, doomed from the start with each of the love-struck's group of friends circling like the gangs in the knife fight scene of Michael Jackson's video for his song Bad. Everyone feeling a bit jealous that it seems to be working out when really it shouldn't (and it doesn't, really, ever)and we know it didn't because the story is titled, "Why We Broke Up." It's an innovative way to tell the story of a high school broken heart. The accompanying illustrations are nice, but they are just pictures of artifacts from the box. Unlike Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck, in which the illustrations play an integral part of telling the whole story, the pictures, or rather paintings, in Why We Broke Up are more like 'Exhibit A: movie ticket stub'. They absolutely rely on Min's narrative to explain their significance - but of course they would, that's how this works, this collecting as you go about, stupidly in love. And Min's narrative was good but it did get grating at times, well, most of the time. I could deal with the proliferation of run-on sentences, it was the constant references to these movies she was obsessed with that I got sick of. I'd give this book 3.5 stars, though that seems almost too generous. I'd recommend it for older YA readers - at least high school, as the book gets into everything high school: putting up with parents, underage drinking, cliques, etc.
When it's all said and done, the message in this book is pretty obvious, but one that's lost on a lot of us at this age (high school) or in this state (stupidly in love):
The one who truly loves and cares for you is the one who's been there all along.
It's the oldest story, right? This mis-matched couple, doomed from the start with each of the love-struck's group of friends circling like the gangs in the knife fight scene of Michael Jackson's video for his song Bad. Everyone feeling a bit jealous that it seems to be working out when really it shouldn't (and it doesn't, really, ever)and we know it didn't because the story is titled, "Why We Broke Up." It's an innovative way to tell the story of a high school broken heart. The accompanying illustrations are nice, but they are just pictures of artifacts from the box. Unlike Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck, in which the illustrations play an integral part of telling the whole story, the pictures, or rather paintings, in Why We Broke Up are more like 'Exhibit A: movie ticket stub'. They absolutely rely on Min's narrative to explain their significance - but of course they would, that's how this works, this collecting as you go about, stupidly in love. And Min's narrative was good but it did get grating at times, well, most of the time. I could deal with the proliferation of run-on sentences, it was the constant references to these movies she was obsessed with that I got sick of. I'd give this book 3.5 stars, though that seems almost too generous. I'd recommend it for older YA readers - at least high school, as the book gets into everything high school: putting up with parents, underage drinking, cliques, etc.
When it's all said and done, the message in this book is pretty obvious, but one that's lost on a lot of us at this age (high school) or in this state (stupidly in love):
The one who truly loves and cares for you is the one who's been there all along.
emotional
funny
sad
medium-paced
The narration is very irritating. Min keeps on saying things that doesn't really support the main idea of what she's trying to say. At some points, her constant run-on sentences and page-long paragraphs becomes very tiring to read. They are just so hard to absorb.
I started this book a week after I broke up with my boyfriend. I had wanted to read it almost since it was released but never found the time.
All I can say is that I'm disappointed that such dim witted story has a powerful tittle like "Why we broke up". I fell in love with the idea of pointing out the reasons why relationships end and endured the really boring love story of too-sensible Min and sweet-at-first-but-still-an-asshole Ed because of it
All I can say is that I'm disappointed that such dim witted story has a powerful tittle like "Why we broke up". I fell in love with the idea of pointing out the reasons why relationships end and endured the really boring love story of too-sensible Min and sweet-at-first-but-still-an-asshole Ed because of it
Una forma de escribir que me ha llamado la atención y me ha gustado destrozada por la mierda de historia. Tal cual.
La trama muy normalita, los personajes planos y esa sensación de no formo parte de la historia, sino que estoy leyendo una carta de 300 páginas que le manda una adolescente a su ex echándole en cara todo lo que hizo (todo, absolutamente TODO) en un ataque de odio, me han provocado que me deje muy fría. Me daban ganas de pegarle una torta a la protagonista, recordarle que tiene 16 (¡que no es el fin del mundo!) y prepararle un colacao calentito para que se le pase.
La trama muy normalita, los personajes planos y esa sensación de no formo parte de la historia, sino que estoy leyendo una carta de 300 páginas que le manda una adolescente a su ex echándole en cara todo lo que hizo (todo, absolutamente TODO) en un ataque de odio, me han provocado que me deje muy fría. Me daban ganas de pegarle una torta a la protagonista, recordarle que tiene 16 (¡que no es el fin del mundo!) y prepararle un colacao calentito para que se le pase.
lighthearted
slow-paced
I only bought this book after I discovered that Daniel Handler’s pen name is Lemony Snicket. I grew up with the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” books, & I thoroughly enjoyed them as a young reader, so naturally, I had to read his other work. I didn’t really like this book though because it’s more for young adults, which isn’t a genre that I read & / or am interested in as a woman in her late 20’s. It’s painfully cringe-worthy, considering it’s about young love, & the characters talk & act exactly how you’d expect them to at their age.