I've been trying to construct a review in my head for this book all weekend, having finished reading it on Saturday morning, but no matter what I came up with, I feel that it will not fully represent the feelings I had while reading this book. To say that I loved The Lover's Dictionary would be an understatement. In a nutshell, The Lover's Dictionary is the simple love story of a couple, left unnamed by the author, told in dictionary form. Through carefully-chosen words, their love story unfurle...

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 Filipino’s notion of love. That’s maybe one of the reasons why we patronize not only their movies but also their many television series.That movie put me in th...

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 te...

**************************A MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXh4QQ...**************************re•view [ri-vyoo] noun 1. a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation. I really wish I had had the mental energy to review this book back when I finished it, but I just wasn’t in the right psychic place to do so at the time. I read it soon after finishing AM/PM, and it fit right in with that sort of flash-fiction vi...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[9/10]⏩Anachronism- nounIn a story, chronological order is indispensable. What? It doesn't have to be. David Levithan writes, We do not divulge our histories chronologically. It’s not like we can sit each other down and say, “Tell me what happened,” and then rise from that conversation knowing everything. Most of the time, we don’t even realize that we’re dividing ourselves into clues. This is not another of those stories where you expect a happy ending. Or a sad ending. Or an ending....

The Lover's Dictionary, David LevithanThe Lover's Dictionary is a 2011 novel by the American author David Levithan. It is his first novel for adults. This modern love story is told entirely through dictionary entries which are brief and concise having a very unusual pattern and style. A nameless narrator tells the story of a relationship through dictionary entries. These short entries provide insight into the ups and downs of their romantic relationship, revealing the couple's problems with alco...

People who get super creative with books are always taking a big risk, you know... writing in verse, two authors writing a POV each, and now this: a novel written like a dictionary. A series of random words from A to Z each representing something about the protagonist's most recent relationship:abstraction, n. Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours.It's a ve

Very creative! I do not doubt David Levithan’s 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 didn’t 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

I nearly gave this 3.5 stars, but oh, the creativity! There's always extra points for creativity. Always. 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. [From ineffable, adj.]If Forest Gump taught you that life is a box of chocolates, The Lover's Dictionary teaches you that love isn't. Using mere words, and in an extraordinarily creative diary-like format, Levithan shows everyone the di...

I hope I'm not the only person who can't relate to this "beautiful" book. Because to be honest, I can't. So sorry...(I don't even know why I have to feel sorry about it...) And don't get me wrong, guys. I've been in love and in a relationship but I guess we don't have much thing in common. So, it is what it is... But it's good to know how other people do in their love life, tho. To me, this book is like a collection of short stories BUT mostly too short to get myself into it. Or maybe it's like

blemish, 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 i...

Don't you dare tell me that this is cheesy stuff. This is exactly the kind of book I prefer.Speaks volumes if you want to go out and figure out the documentation of two people being in love. It is messy and it is fun. It is good and it is bad. People laugh and people cry. The important thing being with each other.Enter my wife.She read this book and decided to write one along similar lines herself. The next thing I know is being handed over a present of our version of The Lover's Dictionary.

Being a person who is truly, deeply, madly in love, I was bound to love this book. I'm feeling like dancing!

This was really beautiful

I first read The Lover’s 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. It’s 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 i...