Sunday, October 17, 2010

My second book talk

I just read a book called Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. This book has 271 pages, and the author is Gabrielle Zevin.  Here is an interesting passage from the book.


That night in my bedroom, I took out my sophmore yearbook for the first time since I'd been back to school. I had originally been intending to look through it for inspiration for my photography project proposal, which was due the next day. Instead, I found myself turning to my class picture.
       There she was with her light gray hair and her dark gray lips upturned into an inpenetrable grin. I wished that she could talk and tell me everything she had ever felt or thought or seen.
      "What were you like?" I asked her. "Were you happy, or were you smiling because they told you to?"

This book is a realistic fiction book about a girl named Naomi who loses her memory when she falls down the stairs at her school after she returns to get the yearbook camera. If she would've picked tails, things might have been different, but she picked heads. Now Naomi can't remember the last four years of her life. She forgot about her boyfriend, her parents' divorce, and why she loved doing yearbook so much. I would give this book four out of five stars because I enjoyed learning about how it felt for someone to experience what it's like to go through losing their memory. I didn't give this book five stars because it wasn't my favorite book, but i still liked it a lot. If you guys like heartwarming books, then you will like this book too!