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by Daniel Handler, Maira Kalman
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EpicFehlReader
EpicFehlReader rated it 8 years ago
I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matche...
Remember When the Music
Remember When the Music rated it 9 years ago
Although I consider young adult fiction to be a guilty pleasure of mine, sometimes I don’t feel quite so guilty about it. Despite the fact that Daniel Handler’s YA novel Why We Broke Up feels even more juvenile than most picks from the young adult genre because it is a picture book (artist Maira Kal...
A Reading Vocation
A Reading Vocation rated it 10 years ago
I'd been wanting to read this book for a long time, but I was somewhat disappointed when I finally got to it. The format is intriguing--a set of letters connected to "objects" (matchbox, movie poster, etc.) that a girl returns to her ex-boyfriend at the end of the relationship. First I had to suspen...
kvela
kvela rated it 10 years ago
Why we broke up is a letter written by Min to her ex-boyfriend Ed as she is on her way to drop of a box that contains all the items that are associated with their relationship. Ed is one of the school jocks, and Min is an unpopular girl obsessed with classic films. Min pours her heart out as she wr...
Projections of a Bibliophiles Mind
This book tells a story about teenage love and eventual heartbreak. It is so wonderfully written that it has the power to take you back in time to that one love who might have broken your heart one way or the other. Daniel Handler makes the emotion of falling in love blindly so easy to relate to, be...
The Last Reader
The Last Reader rated it 10 years ago
The title says clearly what the book is all about. The reasons why Min broke up with Ed was written (as a letter) together with the items (which are also related to both of them of course) inside the box. Min drop it in front of Ed’s house.This book (paperback) was on my wishlist last Christmas but ...
Shelby Schuchard
Shelby Schuchard rated it 10 years ago
For my second book log of Why We Broke up I will tell you what has happened. Not much has happened that I haven't already said. Min the girl in the story is still writing her letter to Ed about why they broke up. She is still going through every object and memory that the two of them shared. If you ...
Exploring by Starlight
Exploring by Starlight rated it 10 years ago
DNFI just can't. Second-person narrative that has sentences that just go on and on and switch topic right in the middle and then go back.
Bark at the Ghouls
Bark at the Ghouls rated it 10 years ago
This is the story of an “arty” girl (but she’s not really arty, she just likes arty films) and a popular stereotypical, dense jock boy who fall in love for two weeks or so. If you’ve read the title you know how it ends. If you’ve read any young adult romance fiction you probably know what’s in the m...
the little bookish
the little bookish rated it 10 years ago
Read first entry and it was disaster. So, no.
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