Book Review– Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac

Memoirs of a teenage Amnesiac

-Gabrielle Zevin

Imagine. You wake up one day and stand in front of the mirror. The reflection looks a bit like you but may be its tall or totally different. What would you do? This is such a story.

The protagonist Naomi Porter is on her summer vacation still meeting at the school who was her best friend. The duo was to be the co editors of their School’s yearbook. Naomi just remembers that she has left the school’s $4,000 camera inside. She rushes down the steps and unfortunately on her way back trips and falls down. She saves the camera but he lands on her head by the stairs.

While on her way to the Hospital in the ambulance Naomi regains consciousness but seems to have forgotten the past four years of her life. All she remembered was her sixth grade and that was all. She misses out so many things. She couldn’t remember her parents divorce, moving to a new house, her body changes etc. She doesn’t even remember her best friends.

Naomi , now is different she doesn’t like the group of people who say that they are her best friends, she doesn’t like the food she usually eats and dislikes so many things she used to like. And most of all she tries to trace out the past years by every means but all her efforts are in vain. Just then Naomi discovers it is time to reinvent the past 4 years of her life and so she begins starts a new day with everything she likes. So what more read the book and get mixed up with her fascinating actions.

The author Gabrielle Zeeve , has written many novels on after life which includes her debut novel elsewhere.

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Book Review- Northern Lights

Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages: 432
Price: Rs. 295.
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The Story about a little girl Lyra who is considered to be an orphan and living in the old theological seminary. Her life is just ordinary unless she accidentally enters into the discussion room and sneaks in to the closet when the most revealing truths about her life are told. Children go disappearing day by day. Some told demons ate them; some told birds carried them away.This was not serious for Lyra unless her best and only friend Roger in the seminary disappears.

Lyra sets out for the first time into the world in search for her friend where she discovers unbelievable truths about her parents.
Will she be able to find Roger? Will she be able to rescue her parents? Read the book and find for yourself.A complete fiction woven in fine thread with imagination .The author has also written many books in this series Like the Aurora, the Subtle knife and the Amber spyglass.

Published in 1995, this is the first novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy by the author.
A feature film adaptation of the novel, titled, The Golden Compass, produced by New Line Cinema was released on December 5, 2007

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Book Review- Northern Lights

Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages: 432
Price: Rs. 295.
Read review

he Story about a little girl Lyra who is considered to be an orphan and living in the old theological seminary. Her life is just ordinary unless she accidentally enters into the discussion room and sneaks in to the closet when the most revealing truths about her life are told. Children go disappearing day by day. Some told demons ate them; some told birds carried them away.This was not serious for Lyra unless her best and only friend Roger in the seminary disappears.

Lyra sets out for the first time into the world in search for her friend where she discovers unbelievable truths about her parents.
Will she be able to find Roger? Will she be able to rescue her parents? Read the book and find for yourself.A complete fiction woven in fine thread with imagination .The author has also written many books in this series Like the Aurora, the Subtle knife and the Amber spyglass.

Published in 1995, this is the first novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy by the author.
A feature film adaptation of the novel, titled, The Golden Compass, produced by New Line Cinema was released on December 5, 2007

Also Read it Here: www.yocee.in