Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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I don't always agree the main characters decisions, or the way she acts, but the important part is that I understand why she does everything and that she feels like a real life flawed person. There were a few instances where I was like, "No, they don't do that in Japan" which might be pretty arrogant of me. Of course even if she was confused, it's only logical that she would stick to Yuji because that's the right thing to do. Naomi and Will's friendship ~ they know absolutely everything about the other person and are inseparable.

B ook release dates, event news, words of note, and the occasional rumination on the meaning of it all. The premise is interesting: Naomi Porter is a teenage yearbook editor who hits her head when she falls down the steps at her school, causing her to forget the last four years of her life. the fact that the character goes through 3 romantic prospects is brilliant because it shows that (unlike a lot of YA would lead us to believe) you have to go through a few relationships, a few heartbreaks, before you find someone you really truly love. All I know is that if I ever acted like her when I was a teenager, I would've gotten my ass kicked by everyone I love.

When she eventually does remember who she is she has to face moving on with the troubles she had previously forgotten, and decide what she is going to do with her life now that she has a fresh start. I liked his character, and I understand why he acted the way he did, and what he was going through, but I didn't like their relationship. And not the funny-yet-vicious sort of drama I enjoyed watching in Tina Fey's Mean Girls; no, this is the pointless-yet-ubiquitous drama created as a byproduct of our own struggle to discover who we are. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac ( Japanese: 誰かが私にキスをした, Hepburn: Dare ka ga Watashi ni Kisu o Shita, lit.

A brilliant exploration of identity and love for YA readers, by the bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Towards the end, it got a little bit better, but up until then, I was mostly feeling annoyed by Naomi and her behaviour. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The amnesia card has been played many times, often cheaply, by storytellers, but for her it’s fertile ground for exploring her main character… [She] gets all the details right: the reckless abandon of teenage love peppered with nuggets of adult wisdom.She also has a group of friends which simply doesn't seem that attractive any more and, despite having meticulously kept a diary, she only mentioned what she ate every day in it! Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years.

She has to deal with people that knew her as she was before the accident and change her behavior based on their cues. I love that he isn't perfect, and I love that Zevin was at least not afraid to make his character just the slightest bit dangerous. I also wasn't sure how I wanted things to be resolved, which is another feeling I like - because it feels like various outcomes could satisfy me.I can definitely see myself spending more time with this book in the future, but I’m not quite ready to take the marriage plunge. With writing as wonderfully engaging as Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac will spur readers to think about why they hold on to relationships, activities and emotions like anger when their time has passed. This entire book felt pointless and I honestly have no clue what story Zevin was trying to tell or even what point exactly she wanted to make. in fact, you should stay away from most of my reviews because i am careless and i don't want to be responsible for shattering any beautiful innocence about life or anything. Biography: Gabrielle Zevin is the author of the number one bestseller Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, plus award-winning books for young adults including her debut novel Elsewhere.

Sure, he tries annoying hard to get Naomi back into bed, which I find somewhat disturbing, but at least he's pretty nice. You forget your junior-year class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend’s home phone number. She is strangely drawn to James, the boy who found her and rode with her to the hospital, who up until the moment he found her, had never met her. Still, it's an interesting concept and I would recommend this book to teens who are interested in angsty romance. If Naomi should've been less whiny, Will should've realized that amnesia means you can't remember things.I found her character, as we know it, from before her head injury to have been awful - I don't think I would have liked her if she had been in my school, but after her injury when she had to renavigate the whole friends in high school thing, I really liked that she was much nicer and kinder to those around her. When her mother arrives in the hospital, Naomi asks her what happened to cause the divorce, and her mother admits that she got pregnant with a former high school friend's baby, and left Naomi and her father to move to the city. I believe that if Will had been more a part of the book, and we didn’t' only see him either arguing with Naomi or shutting her out because she didn't remember him, I would've been more pleased with the ending.