Me and My Book Reviews: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

I wrote this book review last November 09, 2012. My first one since highschool, though my first book review was actually a requirement for our English subject. Anyway, here it is;

This is more of a reaction than a review of the book (I think so hehe) Anyway, Why We Broke Up is the latest young adult book (I am an avid fan for YA Books) that I was able to read and tried so hard to finish. Why tried so hard? Because of busy schedule and for the fact that some of the descriptions in the books, well actually most events there is compared with classic international movies that I never heard of in my entire lifetime hahaha. Nevertheless, I was able to get the gist of the book, and it’s all about young and reckless love.  A teenage girl lost with her presumed love with a good-for-nothing jerk guy in highschool.  But then, who was never once fooled with love or so we thought it was?

Here is the teaser from the Goodreads:

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 matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped.

And some of the quotable quotes I personally found interesting:

“Ed, it was everything, those nights on the phone, everything we said until late became later and then later and very late and finally to go to bed with my ear warm and worn and red from holding the phone close so as not to miss a word of what it was, because who cared how tired I was in the humdrum slave drive of our days without each other. I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did. But that’s why right there it was doomed. We couldn’t only have the magic nights buzzing through the wires. We had to have the days, too, the bright impatient days spoiling everything with their unavoidable schedules, their mandatory times that don’t overlap, their loyal friends who don’t get along, the unforgiven travesties torn from the wall no matter what promises are uttered past midnight, and that's why we broke up.”

I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.

I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.
I’m sorry.

“Twenty-six," you said. "One for each day we’ve been together, Min. ”Somebody oohed. Somebody shushed them. “And I hope that someday I’ll do another something stupid and I’ll have to say it a million times because that’s how long it’ll be, together with you, Min. With you.”

P.S. One more thing, every time the girl ends each chapter with the line ...that’s why we broke up, I always had that twitch in my heart, or even worse tears are already flowing. But don’t get me wrong, this isn't a heavy drama type it’s just that I’m so contained with the failed relationship that along the way the girl lost herself on it.

My rating: 4/5