Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Reading Response to Memoirs of A Teenage Amnesiac

Memoirs of A Teenage Amnesiac is a girl named Naomi, who is an orphan that was adopted from Russia. Now, she lives in Brooklyn with her adoptive parents, her friends, and everybody else.
Her best friend, Will, is one of the nicest, most relate-able people she knows, although he gets mad easily...too bad you only find that out later, because in the beginning of the book, Naomi can't even remember him.
Following her traumatic fall, when she saved the yearbook camera from pulverization and bumped her head, Naomi can't remember a single thing about the past four years.
Going through her things when she returns home from the hospital, she's still in the mindset of who she was four years before. She think it's ridiculous when she finds the notebook with the calorie counts for the day, she finds a dress that's a bit too small and hears about a boyfriend named Ace, who she plays tennis, her favorite sport, with.
What I dislike the most about this book is that it's so much like the other traumatic-head-incident-turns-amnesia books. For example, the book Remember Me? was a good book, but it had the same exact story line.
I mean, EXACT.
A female trips and falls, gets into a car accident, or suffers some other slight damage to their head. Then, they wake up in the hospital acting like how they acted before the time period that they can't remember. Thennn... you think that they're kind of witty, and a funny person, but they remember none of their old life. As it turns out, that they went from zero to hero within time that they've forgotten. Well, they have a close friend, a guy of course, and someone that they're in a relationship with. After a while of trying to ease into where they left off in their life before their accident, they decide that they don't fit in there anymore and they get a new group to hang out with, or at least be friends with a few other people. And then they break up/divorce (with) their boyfriend/husband and then kiss their best friend, who has had feelings for the girl along.
Other than that, I like the story; it's one of those stories where you know that there's going to be a happy ending, and everything turns out ok. There's also a lot of character development, seeing as were they were befor they lost their memory.

2 comments:

  1. omg!! seems as if there was a lot of tough times that this character had to deal with, I really want to read this book...thanks

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  2. Great response! The book seems really interesting and now I can't wait to read it!

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