Why We Broke Up Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from Smiler69

In this ode to first love and it's aftermath, Daniel Handler-aka Lemony Snicket-pairs up with his friend, illustrator Maira Kalman to tell the story of modern love gone awry. Min (for Minerva) Green is known as an "arty" girl, who hangs out with equally arty friends and has a passion for old film...

from lizzyerwin

I picked this one up based solely on the coming feature film starring Hailee Steinfeld and I'm really glad I took the plunge. What struck me most about this book was, although it is marketed as YA, I'm not sure the voice of the narrator will be accessible to most teens. Her manner of speech was f...

from rivkat

Girl meets boy. Girl falls in love with boy. Girl loses boy and writes him an epic letter, with demonstrative exhibits, about why they broke up. I think Handler's best as Lemony Snicket, and this book didn't convince me otherwise, though the tone of desperate, half-insightful and half-self-deludi...

from 2chances

This is why we have real books as opposed to ebooks: because real books can be beautiful, with glossy pages and evocative artwork and a deliciously bookish weight in your hands. Ebooks have many pluses, but real books make them look tatty. Oh, right, the story. Well. 16-year-old Min writes a seri...

from debnance

Why I Loved Why We Broke Up I wasn't too sure about you at first, Why We Broke Up. You have your world and I have mine and never the two shall meet and all that. You are from the Snarky World, after all, and I'm doing everything in my power to be in the Kind, Compassionate World, so we really nev...