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Why We Broke Up
by Daniel Handler
This book was pretty close to being two stars. Handler wrote in long paragraphs that would ramble with details, that I loved in the beginning, but grew very tiresome throughout the book. That and I wanted to punch Min in the face this entire novel. I thought she was a dumb teenage girl, and I hated how every second of Ed and Min's relationship was analyzed. (At least they didn't date for very long, or this book would have been way too long)
But right at the end, when you reach the heart of the break up, Min's speech about being "different" (which was a kind of predictable set off for her) earned this book an extra star, and really resonated with me.
Not sure if this quote is actually a spoiler, but just to be safe:"I'm like every single miserable moron I've scorned and pretended I didn't recognize. I'm all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. I'm not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing. I'm a blemished blemish, a ruined ruin, a stained wreck so failed I can't see what I used to be."
But right at the end, when you reach the heart of the break up, Min's speech about being "different" (which was a kind of predictable set off for her) earned this book an extra star, and really resonated with me.
Not sure if this quote is actually a spoiler, but just to be safe: