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Why We Broke Up
by Daniel Handler
Min is breaking up with Ed. She is writing him a letter on her way to drop off a box of memories on his doorstep. She's getting a ride from her best friend, and we're getting a metaphorical ride through her relationship with Ed: the cute beginning, the sweet and kind of cringingly familiar building on intimacy, the widening gap between their lives (she's obsessed with old movies and he's a HS basketball co-captain (GO BADGERS!)), negotiation of friends and family, adventures, fantasies, and the dramatic end. It's super dramatic, y'all. So if you're into that, it's a fantastic book. I probably would have loved this when I was admittedly a bit emo sophomore/junior year. Until I started my slow journey to not caring.
I kind of hated the characters but couldn't stop reading it. And it has a great ending, a supernova of self-awareness that completely dazzled my out of my cynicism because I was so not feeling this girl and her tirades about old movies that, surprise! are all made up so you can't even look them up and judge her taste. All the music is made up too. She's pretentious and thinks she's cool because she says 'whatnot' a lot. She's 'different', you guys. But I also realize it's a waste of energy to make fun of moody teenagers because it makes me really look bad as an adult. You do you, girl, and I hope this book finds lots of readers, because it's a worthy read & the illustrations are wonderful. You won't think this is waste of time, I 91% guarantee it.
I kind of hated the characters but couldn't stop reading it. And it has a great ending, a supernova of self-awareness that completely dazzled my out of my cynicism because I was so not feeling this girl and her tirades about old movies that, surprise! are all made up so you can't even look them up and judge her taste. All the music is made up too. She's pretentious and thinks she's cool because she says 'whatnot' a lot. She's 'different', you guys. But I also realize it's a waste of energy to make fun of moody teenagers because it makes me really look bad as an adult. You do you, girl, and I hope this book finds lots of readers, because it's a worthy read & the illustrations are wonderful. You won't think this is waste of time, I 91% guarantee it.