Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
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Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg delivers a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe. Featuring: • A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding. • A pair of lonely commuters who ride the subway in silence, forever, eternally failing to make that longed-for contact. • A struggling employee at a theme park of U.S. presidents who discovers that love can’t be genetically modified. And fifteen more tales of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability.
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Wacky stories about love, not just romantic love, either. You have to listen to the audiobook version because all the narrators are different and excellent, many of them comedians and actors. I think you will enjoy this if you liked John Dies at the End, which is a weird comparison, but I promise, it does make sense.
2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge
41. A book with love in the title
It took a few more stops before I realized you were really gone. I kept waiting for you to reenter the subway car, sit down next to me, rest your head on my shoulder. Nothing would be said. Nothing would need to be said.(...)But no, you were gone. And I realized most likely I would never see you again. And I thought about how amazing it is that you can know somebody for sixty years and yet still not really know that person at all.
It started off really good. I am not really a short story person but the first couple I really liked. Especially the mirror dimension one and the wedding prep one were really good, it was all about the story and the rules of the world were totally irrelevant which is why those could be played with so well. The small in-between things were also good like the list of lies.
However, towards to end, I didn't like many of the end stories. The superhero one seemed to have no point and then there was one about a breakup and one entirely of rhymes. Those really weren't for me and they didn't really tie into the other ones in my opinion. They tried to be too different, too other which often made it seem forced and kinda bad. Some were very strong and I really liked them but overall I'm a bit disappointed.
