Summer Reading Blog 2

Although, I don't think I'll finish this book within this week, like I had as a goal in the last blog, I think I'll be able to finish up the book before the end of the month. 

In this blog, I'm going to talk about only two characters, Min and Ed. These are the main characters and their desires and wants are very well exposed throughout the book so far, though, Ed's are still more a mystery. Min throughout the story she's tell wants Ed, she wants a relationship with him, even though she knows they aren't going to get married, she still wanted a relationship with him. She wants to show him the world from her eyes, the eyes of someone "different" as Ed would say. Ed, also wanting a relationship with her, he changes his routines for her just to make her happy. They both desire a relationship together, and we're both happy together, but the little things add up to make them break up. 

At the end of the majority of chapters Min writes "...and that's why we broke up." I find that very interesting because the chapters that's written on are the chapters that are filled with the cute romantic scenes, you'd never think that event would ever be a reason to break up with someone! Handler's structure of writing really gets to me. The way that one sentence can run on for half a page, or how he jumps from one thing to an other, two things not really needing the other around. It's a bit annoying to me, that's why it's taking me longer to read this book than I thought it would. Great story, just wish the structure was a little bit more relatable.

Summer Reading Blog 1

This summer, summer of 2015, the summer before my sophomore year, has been a summer of reading. Along with many other books, I've starting reading a book called Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler. Although, I have just started reading this book, I have a feeling I'm going to be rather attached to it by the end. Well, that's in the future, right now I need to focus more on this blog. The book, so far, has mentioned four names, Ed, Joan, Min, and Al. Min is the one telling the story, through her letters, she's also the girl that is breaking up with Ed. Ed is the, now, ex-boyfriend, the one the letters are directed to. Joan is Ed's sister, so far has no true meaning to the story. Finally, Al is Min's friend, he's helping Min deliver the box of Ed's stuff to Ed's house. There was a mentioning of a deal Min and Al had, Min said, "'Yeah. My end of the deal, right?'" I'm thinking this means she's keeping her end and is trying to make sure he's going to keep his end, even though he avoiding her question. Unfortunately, that's all the information I currently have about this mysterious deal. Is this deal they had the true reason behind Ed and Min breaking up? Min had said she loved Ed. I feel as though Al, even though he's portrayed as the good guy, will end up being the bad guy that broke up Min and Ed. 

When I first read the description of this book, instantly I thought of this book I had read before called Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. That book was about a girl who killed herself for thirteen different reasons. She made thirteen tape recordings and put them in a box, she sent that box to the first person mention in the tape, the first reason she had to kill herself, and then committed suicide. The box got passed from one person to an other until the end. Much like that book, Min sent Ed a box, but instead of there being tape recordings she placed multiple items in the box. Each item was collected over the time Min and Ed were together and symbolized a reason, of many, that Min broke up with Ed. I enjoyed reading Thirteen Reasons Why so I'm hoping this book will be just as enjoyable.