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| Title | : | The Lover's Dictionary |
| Author | : | David Levithan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 211 pages |
| Published | : | January 4th 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Categories | : | Romance. Fiction. Contemporary. Young Adult. Poetry. Adult. Adult Fiction |
David Levithan
Hardcover | Pages: 211 pages Rating: 3.88 | 42966 Users | 5258 Reviews
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basis, n. There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it―you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover's face. How does one talk about love? Do we even have the right words to describe something that can be both utterly mundane and completely transcendent, pulling us out of our everyday lives and making us feel a part of something greater than ourselves? Taking a unique approach to this problem, the nameless narrator of David Levithan's The Lover's Dictionary has constructed the story of his relationship as a dictionary. Through these short entries, he provides an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of being within a couple, giving us an indelible and deeply moving portrait of love in our time.Details Books Conducive To The Lover's Dictionary
| Original Title: | The Lover's Dictionary |
| ISBN: | 0374193681 (ISBN13: 9780374193683) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | ALA Alex Award (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2011) |
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It's been a long time since a book made me cry. This book didn't make me cry. It just reminded me that I haven't cried over fiction since Charlotte's Web.Simply put, this book is an interesting way to tell a modern love story (from a writer's perspective), and an interesting way to see vocabulary words in new ways (from a reader's) while you watch different aspects of a relationship come together, stay together, fall apart, and then go through these stages again. If you're not currently in loveblemish, n.The slight acne scars. The penny-sized, penny-shaped birthmark right above your knee. The dot below your shoulder that must have been from when you had chicken pox in the third grade.The scratch on your neck- did I do that?This brief transcript of moments, written on the body, is so deeply satisfying to read.Wow, this book was gorgeous.It took me about an hour to read (well, technically about 40 minutes... the other 20 minutes was taken up with me scrawling large chunks of this book
Very creative! I do not doubt David Levithans ingenuity and even though I may not always be a fan of his stories (including this), I AM of his writing, intellect and boldness. I didnt think it was possible to create a book with only so many pages and with only a paragraph or two a page but somehow, the author made it work. P.S. Happy belated birthday to my dear friend, Ann who celebrated her birthday on November 1. I hope you had an amazing day, my sweet friend. <3
Being a person who is truly, deeply, madly in love, I was bound to love this book. I'm feeling like dancing!
I first read The Lovers Dictionary way back in 2011 and never thought it was a book I would return to... and yet for some reason I decided to pick it off my shelf tonight and started reading. Its laid out in the style of a dictionary with a list of words (going from A through Z) giving rise to descriptions that allude to a romantic love affair in non-chronological order. And I lost myself in the words. The emotions. The happiness. The sadness. The pathos of the doomed love affair... or maybe it
I read this today, on Valentine's Day ♥, and it was a very interesting read. I love how this book explores the range of all different emotions people could ultimately experience in a relationship. I could really relate to so much of this book. This is not only a lovey-dovey story that will melt your heart. It is far more than that, and it is beautifully written.The format of this book is very clever. Each page starts with a word dictionary style, and that's the format for the whole book which
Read this book only when you are in love or you are in love with love.I was neither both when I read this in one sitting last Saturday. Then last night, I happened to catch some scenes of the Korean movie Love Phobia at Cinema One. Korean filmmakers have been producing excellent, i.e., very sensitive, love stories that are much attuned to Filipinos notion of love. Thats maybe one of the reasons why we patronize not only their movies but also their many television series.That movie put me in the
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