Was wird aber passieren, wenn sie ihr Gedächtnis wieder findet? Das findet ihr nur raus, wenn ihr das Buch lest! I finally admit that I judge books by their covers. I do and I did in the case of Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, which I find really strange since even now I'm not exactly sure what it is about this cover that I like. Maybe it's because it's one of the few female geared books I've seen recently without a long haired girl on the front. But I did judge it worthy of a read, even without actually reading the blurb. I mean the title is a bit self explanatory, isn't it? I'm kind of already engrossed in the voice, narration and story. I'm already reading so many books right now though... :/ Oh, screw it. Does the search for one's truest identity necessarily mean rejecting all that has gone before? ( Booklist) This book had been languishing on my to-read shelf so I’m very grateful that the YA Book Club here at Goodreads chose it for their July book because it motivated me to finally read it.

I didn't connect all that well to Naomi (same problem-o I had with Zevin's début novel). This didn't stop me from enjoying it, but it does stop me from raving about it. There's plenty going on plot wise, and I especially like how well drawn some of the other characters are -- it makes them interesting and their actions unpredictable yet still realistic. Zevin blends romance, changing friendships, and familial dysfunction with themes of chance, loss, and choice, and the result is a quiet exploration of identity and self-realization.” — VOYA First off, I suppose I should say that I wanted to read this book the moment I laid eyes on it in the bookstore. I bought it that same day and squealed as I took it home. Yes, I was that eager to read it. Zevin is a smooth and subtle stylist, creating particularly interesting characters here.” — Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books

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Zevin is completely convincing on the intensity of early passion and the way it can evaporate in the rays of something new, and she has a light touch with the deceptively shallow anguish of adolescence.” — The New York Times Book Review This novel is not a romance. In fact, I'm I’ve only finished the book minutes ago and I'm feeling let-down, irritated and puzzled. The latter because I'm still trying to figure out the point of the novel. asks questions about her missing years. The plot all becomes alot more complicated but it really is a very

Naomi forgets 4 years of her life and is forced (in a way) to get to know herself. She gets an opportunity to reinvent her persona when she finds out that her former self wasn't that great and some of her life choices are questionable. We follow our heroine on her journey of self-discovery until the moment her old and new personalities finally come together, and a new, wiser and happier Naomi emerges. From the author of Elsewhere and the Birthright trilogy, Gabrielle Zevin's Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is an imaginative YA novel all about love and second chances. My quip comes with the main character not always making decisions I agreed with. She is supposed to make mistakes - which I love, and makes the story more real - but there was a portion where I didn't feel or understand her motivation. The only characters I actually liked were Will and Mr. Porter, and even they got annoying at times. And in what high school on earth does being on yearbook staff actually take up that much time?? I was on yearbook staff. We got out of school to sell ads, and never worked outside of that one class period a day. Ever. Ever ever.enjoyable read. Sort of a love triangle in a way that also helps lead Naomi to the rediscovery of her memory

Filming began November 26th, 2008 in the greater Tokyo, Japan area and continued throughout December 2008. Good." Will nodded. "I feel so much better that you don't remember him either. By the by, your man's a dolt not to come." Naomi's memory loss is also just one of the many losses undergone by the major characters in the book. Both James and Will have lost significant family members, and Naomi's parents have experienced a series of losses, including the failure of their marriage, which ended during the period Naomi can't remember. In part, how these characters fare depends on how well they, like Naomi, are able to discover new lives, new opportunities, to make up for all they have lost. I would definitely recommend this book to my high school students, especially teen girls.” — The ALAN Review When Naomi cuts her hair, she says “…I felt like I was getting rid of someone’s expectation of me…It was the end of normal. The girl in the yearbook would never have had short hair.” How do you think she was feeling about her “former” self at that point? What does her haircut signify?discovering her unconscious. He calls an ambulance and after pretending to be her boyfriend he goes eith her It happens, baby." Dad nodded and patted me on the hand and then he read my mind. "You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you'll forget those, too. You forget your junior class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend's home phone number (339-4962, I think) and the lyrics to that song you must have played a million times. For me, it was something by Simon & Garfunkel. Who knows what it will be for you? And eventually, but slowly, oh so slowly, you forget your humiliations-even the ones that seemed indelible just fade away. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. Who went to a good college. Who threw the best parties Who could get you pot. You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They're the last to go. Anbd then once you've forgotten enough, you love someone else." Rewatch Value 7.0 I read somewhere that this was set in an American School in Tokyo and that sounded interesting to me, so I gave it a shot. I love cross-cultural stuff plus an amnesiac teenager sounded fun. I liked the story a lot. It was cute in spite of being predictable. I haven't read the book or anything but for a teenage movie it was quite good.