Book Review: The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan

Published: January 4, 2011 

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Author: David Levithan

Pages: 211

Genres: Romance, Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary

 

A modern love story told through a series of dictionary-style entries is a sequence of intimate windows into the large and small events that shape the course of a romantic relationship. 

How does one talk about love? Is it even possible to describe something at once utterly mundane and wholly transcendent, that has the power to consume our lives completely, while making us feel part of something infinitely larger than ourselves? 

"The Lover's Dictionary is told in the way as it sounds - it's essentially in a dictionary format and the uniqueness come from the fact that the story is told within each of the word's definitions.

Even if you didn't necessarily know what a word meant in the beginning, you get the entire picture within the snippets of story that were told.

I felt like this book was very honest and very emotional. It portraits the types of things that would actually happen to a couple and it really took home to me.

                love, n.                      

                         I'm not going to even try.

What I love about "The Lover's Dictionary" is that it is not told in a full linear perspective. There isn't the usage of he or she pronouns, it's about who you feel the narrator is.
It's more about the interpretation of who you are and how you feel about this relationship.

This is a very unique and interesting take on a relationship. There weren't too many details which was a big plus, because it could have been really overdone if it were a straight, just regular novel.

               I, n.

                  Me without anyone else. 

The short paragraphs make it ore concise and you get all the details in a really realistic storytelling type of way as how I would, or you would, tell a story.

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