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The Silver Linings Playbook
by Matthew Quick
A tough wonderful book about real people and how un-pretty life sometimes is. One of my favorite lines from the book: "life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly (...) And literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for people to endure nobly." Silver Linings Playbook does show pain and raw emotions and the characters don't always endure nobly. Or prettily. But they do endure and the realness makes the book such a gripping read. And as a silver lining (see what I did there? :), tucked in between emotional pain and inability to cope, betrayal, misunderstandings, and a father who is a real douche - not even because he doesn't know how to deal with his mentally ill son, but because he makes everyone around him suffer for his moods - tucked in between all this, is a beautiful, unassuming love story, that still manages to leave a mark on the reader.
What a great book. (Although I should warn any reader who feels uncomfortable with swearing that the f-word does get dropped a few times. It always read appropriate in context to me in this book, but I understand not everyone may feel that way.)
What a great book. (Although I should warn any reader who feels uncomfortable with swearing that the f-word does get dropped a few times. It always read appropriate in context to me in this book, but I understand not everyone may feel that way.)