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Amelia Unabridged
by Ashley Schumacher
"That’s stupid," Ainsley said. "What's the point of being alive if you're not going to be bothered into something better?"
"What's the point of being alive if you’re too busy being bothered to do any living?" Emmeline retorted.
This book was beautiful and everything that I have been wanting in a YA novel for a while now. When I heard about the book, I knew I would love it and it did not disappoint. The book is about Amelia Griffin, a freshly graduated eighteen year old who has been obsessed with the Orman Chronicles for years. They are what brought her and her best friend Jenna together. But when Jenna dies in a terrible car accident and she is left to pick up the pieces of her life, Amelia is having a hard time at where to start until a limited edition of the Orman Chronicles is comes into her life. The book is about her dealing with her grief and trying to pick the pieces up now that she now longer has her best friend.
There are so many thing that I loved but one being the flashbacks of Jenna and Amelia throughout the book. She was constantly there in her mind, and even though she was dead, Jenna was just as strong of a character as the ones that were still alive. I enjoyed seeing the friendship between Amelia and Jenna.
As a reader anything having to do with writing, bookstores, or just books in general, I typically love. And Val's bookstore is something I wish so badly existed in real life! I now want to visit it after getting a mysterious book in the mail and get to stay in a room above the bookstore and come down in the middle of the night and get to wander around. Or better yet, get the cute author of my favorite book series to read to me. It books like this that make me believe in magic, and that maybe its hidden deep in a bookstore somewhere and I just have to find it.
To share another one of my favorite moments from the book is after Jenna dies and Amelia has inherited her library, she goes to the books for comfort. Like many others, this is my first reaction as well; to grab a book and fall into the world bound with the pages. But when Amelia can no longer do this, I started crying! "I've lived in books. I've eaten and breathed books for so long that I took it for granted. I assumed that , if they saved me once, they would always be there to pick me up, even if Jenna wasn’t. But Jenna is gone , and the words stay on the page in their neat, orderly rows. The pages don’t rise up to meet me like old friends and the characters are marionettes pulled by visible strings."
Later on in the story we see Amelia start to use photography as a medium for her emotions and I loved this and when Nolan is telling her that she doesn't have to go to Montana, and that she doesn’t have to follow Jenna's plan; she could be anything she wanted, and that it is not a bad thing, I loved it. When they kept telling each other what the other needed to hear, they both needed to hear it, and in the end they were what the other needed. Nolan tells Amelia that everything is a story and that she just needs to find the one that means something to her.
At the end of the day, it only makes me hold fictional boys at a higher standard than real ones. But at the same time I think the whole book was about going out into the world and finding the story that means something to you; the one you want to tell. I related to Amelia and Nolan both and think Ashley Schumacher did an amazing job! The writing was beautiful, the story and characters were so well thought out and crafted. It was magical, but just real enough to make me believe that there's a belonging out there and people for me just like there was for Amelia.
And that bookstores are totally magical. :)
1,000,000/5 stars. I will be recommending this highly!
"What's the point of being alive if you’re too busy being bothered to do any living?" Emmeline retorted.
This book was beautiful and everything that I have been wanting in a YA novel for a while now. When I heard about the book, I knew I would love it and it did not disappoint. The book is about Amelia Griffin, a freshly graduated eighteen year old who has been obsessed with the Orman Chronicles for years. They are what brought her and her best friend Jenna together. But when Jenna dies in a terrible car accident and she is left to pick up the pieces of her life, Amelia is having a hard time at where to start until a limited edition of the Orman Chronicles is comes into her life. The book is about her dealing with her grief and trying to pick the pieces up now that she now longer has her best friend.
There are so many thing that I loved but one being the flashbacks of Jenna and Amelia throughout the book. She was constantly there in her mind, and even though she was dead, Jenna was just as strong of a character as the ones that were still alive. I enjoyed seeing the friendship between Amelia and Jenna.
As a reader anything having to do with writing, bookstores, or just books in general, I typically love. And Val's bookstore is something I wish so badly existed in real life! I now want to visit it after getting a mysterious book in the mail and get to stay in a room above the bookstore and come down in the middle of the night and get to wander around. Or better yet, get the cute author of my favorite book series to read to me. It books like this that make me believe in magic, and that maybe its hidden deep in a bookstore somewhere and I just have to find it.
To share another one of my favorite moments from the book is after Jenna dies and Amelia has inherited her library, she goes to the books for comfort. Like many others, this is my first reaction as well; to grab a book and fall into the world bound with the pages. But when Amelia can no longer do this, I started crying! "I've lived in books. I've eaten and breathed books for so long that I took it for granted. I assumed that , if they saved me once, they would always be there to pick me up, even if Jenna wasn’t. But Jenna is gone , and the words stay on the page in their neat, orderly rows. The pages don’t rise up to meet me like old friends and the characters are marionettes pulled by visible strings."
Later on in the story we see Amelia start to use photography as a medium for her emotions and I loved this and when Nolan is telling her that she doesn't have to go to Montana, and that she doesn’t have to follow Jenna's plan; she could be anything she wanted, and that it is not a bad thing, I loved it. When they kept telling each other what the other needed to hear, they both needed to hear it, and in the end they were what the other needed. Nolan tells Amelia that everything is a story and that she just needs to find the one that means something to her.
At the end of the day, it only makes me hold fictional boys at a higher standard than real ones. But at the same time I think the whole book was about going out into the world and finding the story that means something to you; the one you want to tell. I related to Amelia and Nolan both and think Ashley Schumacher did an amazing job! The writing was beautiful, the story and characters were so well thought out and crafted. It was magical, but just real enough to make me believe that there's a belonging out there and people for me just like there was for Amelia.
And that bookstores are totally magical. :)
1,000,000/5 stars. I will be recommending this highly!