It Ended Badly

Fun (except for the Oscar Wilde chapter, which made me sad), generally lighthearted collection of stories about terrible breakups from ancient Rome to the 1960s. Particular standouts to me were Lord Byron/Caroline Lamb, John Ruskin/Effie Gray, and oh my god, Norman Mailer is TERRIBLE. The author's tone throughout is breezy and conversational, kind of along the lines of a Drunk History narrator but wayyy more coherent. This is perfect for the type of reading I'm doing now, which is short bites after the baby's asleep. Nothing earth-shattering, and sometimes the ends of the chapters reach a little too hard for a ‘moral of the story,' but a good quick summer read (unless you've been dumped recently, I suppose).