Audiobook: Oh this was trip!!!! Writing an abbreviated review will be a challenge here for me. Logically speaking I shouldn't have like this book....but I did. "Sense 8", ( the T.V. Series-which I LOVE), meets "Life after Life", by Kate Atkinson, (which I didn't love). In "Life After Life", Ursula died so many times -ongoing endless repetition deaths - was often like nails-on-a chalkboard irritating. In "My Name Is Memory", Daniel has died many times also --but he travels through centuries and a...

Tonight I lost my book-throwing virginity. Sure, I've been tempted to chuck something across the room before, but have never actually done it until now.Maybe the book didn't make it all the way across the room, but it was thrust off my lap with a certain amount of ferocity. Why, you ask? Because no book should EVER have the ending that I was just subjected to.'My Name Is Memory' should have been a 5 star book. It was beautifully written, and I was captivated by the journey of one man traveling t...

My Name is Memory is a love story unlike any I have ever known. Ann Brashares unravels her tale a bit at a time and toys with her audience much like a cat bats a ball of yarn. We are tossed to and fro throughout the ages clinging to the memories of Daniel -- a soul who is both blessed and cursed with the incredbile ability to remember all of his many lives as he is reincarnated over centuries. Daniel's stories pull us into the ancient worlds of Northern Africa and Crete, to the not-so-distant pa...

Wow! Loved every minute of it. I was sucked into the many lives of Daniel and Sophia (Lucy). Longing, waiting, and rooting for their love for each other to cross over their many lifetimes after centuries of roadblocks.
It was a beautiful read. Five stars.

2.5 StarsRomance A Thon: New Adult Romance Summer A Thon: A Beachy ReadWell....That was anticlimactic The entire time I was reading this book I thought I would give it 3- 3.5 Stars because I was enjoying it and I totally shipped this couple. Then it ended. I mean the book just ended out of no where. The entire last 100 pages was leading up to this showdown between two particular characters ( no spoilers) and then right when we were getting to that, the book just ends. WHAT THE LITERAL FUCK??? An...

“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.” “Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.” “You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s y...

OH. MY. GOD. This book was EVERYTHING and more. It has left my brain stunned at it's utter genious, which is why this review probably wont be very coherent, but who am I kidding? there is no way I could caption this brilliance that is this book anyway.So I wont say much I will just say this:From the very first pages I was encaptured by this book - loving the writing, and intrigued by the story. And as the story moved along, spinning pieces together, I just fell in love with it. Madly. ...

GAAAR!!Are you kidding me?!I'm still expecting Ashton Kutcher to pop out of my closet to declare I've been punk’d.This could have easily been a 5-star book if not for the ending. I've never been so dissatisfied! Yes, I still give it 4 stars because it was brilliantly written, romantic, emotionally gripping. I loved the characters and the overall story that was told here...again, up until like the last two pages. Seriously? Would it have hurt Brashares to add, I don't know, thirty more pages to c...

Oh, I sure hope this is part of some kind of series because I was totally in love with this book until the end. And the end sooooo irritated me that I literally threw the book down. I don't do that. I love books. I love great stories. And I loved this story -- it's such a unique look at how a relationship functions. Main character: Daniel, a dude who can remember his past lives. In love with: Sophia/Charlotte/Lucy, who cannot remember her past lives. Struggle: he needs her to remember him. Troub...

Brashares took a fantastic and intriguing idea and ruined it. Here are the ways this story is pathetic:- Brashares has the freedom to put her characters in any time period, location, and situation, yet she never gives Daniel and Lucy a convincing love story. There's absolutely no substance or reason to their attraction. - Such as their first encounter. A simple view of this girl, and Daniel is ready to spend miserable lifetime after miserable lifetime being, well, miserable because he can't be w...