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Why We Broke Up
by Daniel Handler
This is a gorgeous book. The art is amazing, and it has such a heft. You cannot truly appreciate this book until you've held it's glossy heavy pages in your hands. I wasn't as enamored with the writing as I was with the book as a physical object, but it was still enjoyable.
Min and Ed have nothing in common. Ed is a basketball player; Min is just an average student with dreams to be a film director. A fluke meeting at a party draws the two of them together and they start dating. This book chronicles Min and Ed's breakup and the contents of a box that Min compiled during their month-and-a-half relationship. There is so much that is so familiar in this book, but Min certainly doesn't sound like a high school student in this extended letter to her ex. The author also has an annoying habit of inserting Min and Ed's names into awkward places in dialogue, just to remind the reader who is talking to who. It really jerks you out of the reading experience when you see something that would never occur in natural speech, let alone natural writing.
Min and Ed have nothing in common. Ed is a basketball player; Min is just an average student with dreams to be a film director. A fluke meeting at a party draws the two of them together and they start dating. This book chronicles Min and Ed's breakup and the contents of a box that Min compiled during their month-and-a-half relationship. There is so much that is so familiar in this book, but Min certainly doesn't sound like a high school student in this extended letter to her ex. The author also has an annoying habit of inserting Min and Ed's names into awkward places in dialogue, just to remind the reader who is talking to who. It really jerks you out of the reading experience when you see something that would never occur in natural speech, let alone natural writing.