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The Memory Book
by Lara Avery
Sammie. Super smart yet super awkward. But the kid has heart.
She's incredibly intelligent, hardworking, and socially odd, which totally stole my heart because I understand that life and I understand it well.
Sammie's illness ends in dying very young and she's determined to chronicle her youth in a memory book (re: diary, though she refuses to call it that). I couldn't help want to hug her for her admiration of Elizabeth Warren and Beyonce to get her through the last leg of her illness with confidence and strength. Girl power, YES.
You feel her sadness at losing her dream (attending NYU), the anger at failing at a task she excelled at because her body betrayed her (nationals for debate), and having an enormous crush on a boy who was more interesting in theory than in actuality.
Enter her childhood neighbor, who is a miraculous combination of stoner and cute muscle (how that's even possible considering weed gives you the munchies is one for the sages but, hey, that's YA, right?). He is the right one. Knows her past, accepts her future, and doesn't treat her like she's terminal. Your heart will ache for them. And that ending. Facing home.
Avery, thank you for making me want to find another goal to give my all to so that life is a little less boring.
She's incredibly intelligent, hardworking, and socially odd, which totally stole my heart because I understand that life and I understand it well.
Sammie's illness ends in dying very young and she's determined to chronicle her youth in a memory book (re: diary, though she refuses to call it that). I couldn't help want to hug her for her admiration of Elizabeth Warren and Beyonce to get her through the last leg of her illness with confidence and strength. Girl power, YES.
You feel her sadness at losing her dream (attending NYU), the anger at failing at a task she excelled at because her body betrayed her (nationals for debate), and having an enormous crush on a boy who was more interesting in theory than in actuality.
Enter her childhood neighbor, who is a miraculous combination of stoner and cute muscle (how that's even possible considering weed gives you the munchies is one for the sages but, hey, that's YA, right?). He is the right one. Knows her past, accepts her future, and doesn't treat her like she's terminal. Your heart will ache for them. And that ending. Facing home.
Avery, thank you for making me want to find another goal to give my all to so that life is a little less boring.