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Entertaining vignettes that discuss the the many varieties and approaches we all have to Love. Very underline-able and perceptive, while also very funny and casually conversational.

On reread this speaks to me a little less, though it's still quite cleverly-written (sometimes too cleverly?). Maybe I've become less cynical. I do still enjoy the way the stories all interconnect and how the characters in the spotlight, and your understanding of them and of what's happening to them, keeps shifting.


— original review [July 5, 2008] —

Exquisite, clever, wistful, hilarious, wise. There is so much truth in some of the stories that you don't know whether to laugh or cry. Sort of like 69 Love Songs in story form. If I wanted to have Daniel Handler's children after reading his work as Lemony Snicket, it is doubly and triply true now.