A review by jgoins
100 Days of Happiness by Fausto Brizzi
5.0
This book made me cry at work. I work at a library, where they totally understand reading on the desk when you don't have anything else to do, thank goodness!
It's not like I didn't understand from the beginning that it was going to be a sad ending. You know from early on that Lucio won't be making it out of this book alive. Knowing that makes every passage count just a little bit more, though, which I imagine is the point of the story in the first place. Make every moment count, especially with your loved ones.
I really enjoyed the format of this book. It is written like diary entries of a count-down of the narrator's days left alive. He's a funny narrator, which helps lighten the mood. There's a couple spots where he asks his reader to write on the blank pages which I loved so much it made me want to buy the book so I could deface my own copy. Live a little!
It's not like I didn't understand from the beginning that it was going to be a sad ending. You know from early on that Lucio won't be making it out of this book alive. Knowing that makes every passage count just a little bit more, though, which I imagine is the point of the story in the first place. Make every moment count, especially with your loved ones.
I really enjoyed the format of this book. It is written like diary entries of a count-down of the narrator's days left alive. He's a funny narrator, which helps lighten the mood. There's a couple spots where he asks his reader to write on the blank pages which I loved so much it made me want to buy the book so I could deface my own copy. Live a little!