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Why We Broke Up
by Daniel Handler
I felt this book.
When I first saw this book a couple years ago, I passed over it thinking it was just a picture book with no real plot line.
I was wrong.
I hate this book and love this book because it took me back to my own breakups. It made me feel things I never wanted to feel again, but that's the beauty of it.
Handler created a voice that I thought was my own at times. Although it was difficult to get through at some points, this novel was beautifully written.
A clever, quirky girl meets a typical jock douchewad and experiments with changing her persona in order to keep his attention. I know I am not the only one in the world who has experience this type of situation in their own life, even if it simply with someone you never thought would look at you.
I loved the sloppiness of this. Yes, it get's confusing and I lost the plot line at points, but when I finished and realized I had just read a broken hearted break up letter, I realized just how brilliant Handler is. Of course break-up letters are not perfect and are rarely coherent. I think that's what really made me love this book. Handler captured what it's truly like to be in a relationship and break-up with someone. You keep useless treasures. You feel invincible. You start believing things that aren't true. You make up situations that won't happen. You cry. You lose a part of yourself. You don't think straight for a while. You use bad language. You can't look at anything that reminds you of them anymore.
Handler captured the nasty parts and the good parts of being young and in love and loving someone and hating someone.
I truly enjoyed this roller coaster of a book and would definitely recommend it to fellow readers.
When I first saw this book a couple years ago, I passed over it thinking it was just a picture book with no real plot line.
I was wrong.
I hate this book and love this book because it took me back to my own breakups. It made me feel things I never wanted to feel again, but that's the beauty of it.
Handler created a voice that I thought was my own at times. Although it was difficult to get through at some points, this novel was beautifully written.
A clever, quirky girl meets a typical jock douchewad and experiments with changing her persona in order to keep his attention. I know I am not the only one in the world who has experience this type of situation in their own life, even if it simply with someone you never thought would look at you.
I loved the sloppiness of this. Yes, it get's confusing and I lost the plot line at points, but when I finished and realized I had just read a broken hearted break up letter, I realized just how brilliant Handler is. Of course break-up letters are not perfect and are rarely coherent. I think that's what really made me love this book. Handler captured what it's truly like to be in a relationship and break-up with someone. You keep useless treasures. You feel invincible. You start believing things that aren't true. You make up situations that won't happen. You cry. You lose a part of yourself. You don't think straight for a while. You use bad language. You can't look at anything that reminds you of them anymore.
Handler captured the nasty parts and the good parts of being young and in love and loving someone and hating someone.
I truly enjoyed this roller coaster of a book and would definitely recommend it to fellow readers.