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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
Add this to the list of books that I should have read when I was younger, and I may have appreciated it more. Overall, it served as a reminder of how naive teenagers are and the lessons that come with it.
I also didn't care for the writing style and the constant use of "arty" and "different" to describe the main character. This book should be an easy read and finished in a day but I felt like I was pushing myself through it, just to say I finished the book.
I also didn't care for the writing style and the constant use of "arty" and "different" to describe the main character. This book should be an easy read and finished in a day but I felt like I was pushing myself through it, just to say I finished the book.
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
This book is very nicely done--with each chapter organized around one of the mementos that Min is returning to her ex-boyfriend. The illustrations simultaneously draw the reader into the story and invite the reader to pause and ponder. This book is similar in theme and tone to [b:The Basic Eight|10997|The Basic Eight|Daniel Handler|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327931875s/10997.jpg|518224], though not as dark and crazy. It seems very true to life (I dated one or two guys like Ed in high school!) and would serve as a great cautionary tale for teenage girls everywhere.
2012: Hands down, the best book I read this year. I know, quite a bold statement.
** 2016, 4 years later review: UGH, even better the second time around.**
** 2016, 4 years later review: UGH, even better the second time around.**
I went into this book thinking it portrayed adult characters so I was disappointed to see quirky, not-like-everyone teenagers instead. I liked Min fine but I never understood how she was interested in Ed. That guy was a jerk their entire relationship so I wasn't heartbroken at their breakup.
Being a high schooler and doing all of this for someone you've only been with for under 3 months is somewhere between overbearing and ridiculous and 100% dead serious and heart-breaking.
I think some of the prose that comes from the stream-of-consciousness writing style is beautiful, and the dialogue in these moments can read quick. But a majority of it becomes a slog and a fever dream. Min can say something so relatable and then just start talking in circles. I can not imagine how Ed must have felt reading some of this- actually I have this weird feeling that he didn't even read all of it.
I love that the author interviewed people over their heartbreaks, I love the community that was created as people discussed their first loves and how serious they were for their relationship experiences at the age of 15. I just wish I loved it a little more :'(
I think some of the prose that comes from the stream-of-consciousness writing style is beautiful, and the dialogue in these moments can read quick. But a majority of it becomes a slog and a fever dream. Min can say something so relatable and then just start talking in circles. I can not imagine how Ed must have felt reading some of this- actually I have this weird feeling that he didn't even read all of it.
I love that the author interviewed people over their heartbreaks, I love the community that was created as people discussed their first loves and how serious they were for their relationship experiences at the age of 15. I just wish I loved it a little more :'(
forgot about this book. remembered it enough to remember that i did not like it
*3.5
I didn't hate it. I didn't love it. The writing style just got so freaking annoying at times that I found myself skimming multiple pages (and not missing anything). The run on sentences/paragraphs/pages completely killed it. I understand why that style worked for this kind of storytelling, but it really just wasn't for me.
Overall, I enjoyed the story enough to look past my dislike for the story and finish it. It was cute and full of feeling and realness, and I loved the illustrations.
I didn't hate it. I didn't love it. The writing style just got so freaking annoying at times that I found myself skimming multiple pages (and not missing anything). The run on sentences/paragraphs/pages completely killed it. I understand why that style worked for this kind of storytelling, but it really just wasn't for me.
Overall, I enjoyed the story enough to look past my dislike for the story and finish it. It was cute and full of feeling and realness, and I loved the illustrations.
My second favorite book of 2012.
What do you do with all of the memories, all of the history you've made with someone once you can no longer share it with each other?
This is probably what plagues me most about breakups. All of that knowledge you painstakingly gather and curate about another person, sitting and gathering dust.
Lemony Snicket, i.e. Daniel Handler puts all of that heartbreak about useless memories in a box and drops it on the reader's doorstep, hoping that the reader will take it in like a lost puppy and love it the way you no longer can.
Favorite Quotes
[I[t was wondering how someone could lose a shoe, just one shoe, and not see it when it was hopeful on the windowsill for weeks.
The roar and the boom was like nothing I'd known, even when I was a freshman and went to the first pep rally because I had the wrong first friends and didn't know any better.
I had such, you would not believe the such a feeling I had. You couldn't film it, it couldn't be captured. It couldn't happen almost, but there it was happening.
What do you do with all of the memories, all of the history you've made with someone once you can no longer share it with each other?
This is probably what plagues me most about breakups. All of that knowledge you painstakingly gather and curate about another person, sitting and gathering dust.
Lemony Snicket, i.e. Daniel Handler puts all of that heartbreak about useless memories in a box and drops it on the reader's doorstep, hoping that the reader will take it in like a lost puppy and love it the way you no longer can.
Favorite Quotes
[I[t was wondering how someone could lose a shoe, just one shoe, and not see it when it was hopeful on the windowsill for weeks.
The roar and the boom was like nothing I'd known, even when I was a freshman and went to the first pep rally because I had the wrong first friends and didn't know any better.
I had such, you would not believe the such a feeling I had. You couldn't film it, it couldn't be captured. It couldn't happen almost, but there it was happening.
No he conseguido terminar este libro, quizás porque tenía altas expectativas que el propio libro nunca superó, pero lo cierto es que no llegó a absolutamente nada.
No me gusta la forma de escribir del autor, ni la forma en la que está narrada, y no encuentro ningún trasfondo en los personajes.
Sin duda, un libro que con trece años me hubiera gustado y entretenido, ahora con 21 ni siquiera soporto.
Pensé que sería un poco más maduro, pero no ha sido así.
Por eso mismo, lo dejo... Ya lo terminaré en otra ocasión (si es que lo termino, claro)
No me gusta la forma de escribir del autor, ni la forma en la que está narrada, y no encuentro ningún trasfondo en los personajes.
Sin duda, un libro que con trece años me hubiera gustado y entretenido, ahora con 21 ni siquiera soporto.
Pensé que sería un poco más maduro, pero no ha sido así.
Por eso mismo, lo dejo... Ya lo terminaré en otra ocasión (si es que lo termino, claro)