Name: Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac
Rating: 3.603896103896104 (77 reviews)
ISBN: 9780374349462

Gabrielle Zevin

After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life.

Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac

Ivy X

The ending was so sweet. This whole book was really interesting because it makes you wonder: "are you really who you want to be? Are you really who you are right now? What would happen if it became a clean slate?" 
And it was really nice to see how she went on with her life even after remembering. I enjoyed this book.

When Naomi tries to piece back the fragments of the last three and a half years of her life, she discovers she has a boyfriend she can't remember, her mother and father are divorced, she and her mother have fallen out, and she has a group of friends she's just not sure she likes any more. A quirky, humorous novel about reinventing yourself, from the author of Elsewhere.

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Flavia Louise

Solid 4 stars
I didn't really know what this book was going into it aka I thought this was a book about a girl suffering from dementia. But it wasn't and it was really quite great at what it was, as the back cover says; a love story.

Toni Turner

I read this in the RV because Tatum lent it from the library. 
I loved this beginning and the end of this novel more than the middle bits but the middle bits were so important. I think I enjoyed the main character but not the love interest..like at all. 
I love Gabrielle Zevin.
I need to reread this. But i just remember that feeling I had at the end was one of those smiley endings where it ended how I needed it to end and I loved it a lot. 
Not that prick she dated in the middle though hated him.

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief." She'd get all his inside jokes, and maybe he wouldn't be so frustrated with her for forgetting things she can't possibly remember. She'd know about her mom's new family. She'd know about her dad's fiancée. She wouldn't have to spend her junior year relearning all the French she supposedly knew already. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn't have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads. After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

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Samantha Seney

had trouble reading it at first because it's not exactly my genre but it dragged me in really fast. It even made me cry at some parts! it was an amazing book.

* first finished reading on March 21, 2011

Who are you at 16, if you can't remember anything about your life since you were 12? A brilliant exploration of identity and love for YA readers, by the bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.After an accident that leaves her with partial amnesia, Naomi tries to piece together the fragments of the last three-and-a-half years of her life. She discovers that she has a tennis-champion boyfriend but can't remember him, is co-editor of the yearbook with a quirky guy who wears a smoking jacket, her parents are divorced, and she apparently hates her mother. She has friends who simply don't seem that attractive any more and, despite having meticulously kept a diary during the now-lost years, she only wrote about what she ate every day in it!But when a girl loses three-and-a-half years she gets a chance to reinvent herself. After all, who is to say that everything has to stay the same?'Essentially a love story, it is also an exploration of teenage identity, handled with such a skilful blend of wit, intelligence and tenderness that readers will lose themselves in the story and find themselves in the process.' Daily Telegraph

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