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.