#12 - The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan

This lovely little piece of prose is EXACTLY the balm that my chapped reader's brain needed after the last two "less than interesting" books that I suffered through.  The Lover's Dictionary can be consumed in an evening or in bite sized chunks but once I sunk into the easy dialogue and non-linear yet complete story telling, I didn't want to stop.

If this book had been written as a linear, unbroken story line, it would have been the standard "boy meets girl on the internet, they fall in love, stuff happens, the end" kind of story.  But the story telling made it much more interesting and enjoyable.  Imagine if someone went through your journal, assigned a single word to each entry and then alphabetized them into individual chapters.  That's what happens here.  Pieces of information are parceled to us out of order but, anyone who has ever been in through a rocky relationship knows how the pieces fit into a full story.

Give yourself a break and indulge in a common story with a beautiful presentation.  You won't regret it.

“Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough”

Goodreads Rating: 4 stars

On deck (nook): Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
In Progress (audio): The Firm by John Grisham