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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
I'm glad it was a library book and I didn't spend my own money. It was an okay book.
This book has my heart forever, the perfect book if you're post-breakup or even post-breakup clarity. Artfully illustrated and beautifully written, this book gets to the million little reasons we break up, and how healing it can be to give someone's shit back.
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Hatte ein deutsches rezensionsexemplar. Kann das Buch leider nocht empfehlen, das Konzept ist gut, die Umsetzung nicht. Leider sind die Personen sehr eindimensional und langweilig, Min kst die Definition eines PickMe
I'm reading this book once again, and each time it hits me like a ton of bricks.
I just read this entire book yesterday because I honestly couldn't put it down. It was so well written and I really really really loved it.
Maybe if I had ever been that girl, book, that girl who believed she was different, the girl who believed she was special and in love with someone whom everyone was saying was the wrong one but whom I believed was the right one and he made me feel special and loved and who, for some reason, went along with all of my weird quirks and told me how special and different I was, and then after I gave you what felt like everything, you shattered my heart into a thousand tiny pieces, maybe then I would have appreciated this book more.
But I was never that girl, book, and so you didn't hit me as hard as maybe you should have.
I'm still thinking about it after I set it down, thinking about the characters and what Handler did right and what he didn't do so well. So there is that. And I'll say, I can picture the kid I would give this to. Even better.
But I was never that girl, book, and so you didn't hit me as hard as maybe you should have.
I'm still thinking about it after I set it down, thinking about the characters and what Handler did right and what he didn't do so well. So there is that. And I'll say, I can picture the kid I would give this to. Even better.
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, Alcohol
Minor: Sexual content
In high school I was the queen of unrequited crushes. I didn’t come to know the true excitement and nausea that accompany being in the sun of someone’s affection, attention, and love until I was older. That made this book an interesting read for me.
Written in the second person in the form of a letter from ‘arty’, ‘different’ Min to her athlete ex-boyfriend Ed, the text explains the objects in a box that Min is leaving on his doorstep, each of which help her to tell the story of their relationship. Min and Ed are from different social circles and have different interests and vocabularies (Ed is fond of using ‘gay’ as a synonym for dumb or stupid). Their friends don’t like their respective partners and their class schedules keep them apart, but Min and Ed try to create their own intimate world.
Readers know from the beginning that it will end and can see the reasons why laid out like breadcrumbs through the text. Min’s letter shares the highs and lows, the delights and downfalls of their relationship with the knowledge of narrative structure from her favorite [fictional] classic films and an eye for the cinematic.
The dialogue is full of high school posturing and awkward exchanges as well as witty banter inspired by the movies Min loves. In several places, most notably when describing the high school’s physical and social setting and the profound sense of self-doubt following a failed relationship, Daniel Handler has Min speak in stream of consciousness narrative style that manages to feel accurate, irritatingly self-conscious, and utterly disarming. I enjoyed the novel and its protagonist. I also felt extremely grateful that I never fell in love in the fishbowl that is high school.
Written in the second person in the form of a letter from ‘arty’, ‘different’ Min to her athlete ex-boyfriend Ed, the text explains the objects in a box that Min is leaving on his doorstep, each of which help her to tell the story of their relationship. Min and Ed are from different social circles and have different interests and vocabularies (Ed is fond of using ‘gay’ as a synonym for dumb or stupid). Their friends don’t like their respective partners and their class schedules keep them apart, but Min and Ed try to create their own intimate world.
Readers know from the beginning that it will end and can see the reasons why laid out like breadcrumbs through the text. Min’s letter shares the highs and lows, the delights and downfalls of their relationship with the knowledge of narrative structure from her favorite [fictional] classic films and an eye for the cinematic.
The dialogue is full of high school posturing and awkward exchanges as well as witty banter inspired by the movies Min loves. In several places, most notably when describing the high school’s physical and social setting and the profound sense of self-doubt following a failed relationship, Daniel Handler has Min speak in stream of consciousness narrative style that manages to feel accurate, irritatingly self-conscious, and utterly disarming. I enjoyed the novel and its protagonist. I also felt extremely grateful that I never fell in love in the fishbowl that is high school.