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    My Name Is Memory
    Audiobook10 hours

    My Name Is Memory

    Written by Ann Brashares

    Narrated by Kathe Mazur

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Last Summer (of You and Me) comes an imaginative, inspired, magical book-a love story that lasts more than a lifetime.

    Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. Daniel has "the memory", the ability to recall past lives and recognize souls of those he's previously known. It is a gift and a curse. For all the times that he and Sophia have been drawn together throughout history, they have also been torn painfully, fatally, apart. A love always too short.

    Interwoven through Sophia and Daniel's unfolding present day relationship are glimpses of their expansive history together. From 552 Asia Minor to 1918 England and 1972 Virginia, the two souls share a long and sometimes torturous path of seeking each other time and time again. But just when young Sophia (now "Lucy" in the present) finally begins to awaken to the secret of their shared past, to understand the true reason for the strength of their attraction, the mysterious force that has always torn them apart reappears. Ultimately, they must come to understand what stands in the way of their love if they are ever to spend a lifetime together.

    A magical, suspenseful, heartbreaking story of true love, My Name is Memory proves the power and endurance of a union that was meant to be.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 1, 2010
    ISBN9781101223086
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    My Name Is Memory
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    Ann Brashares

    Ann Brashares is the author of the phenomenal five-million-copies-selling series of young adult novels, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Girls In Pants, and Forever in Blue, and the New York Times bestselling adult novel The Last Summer (of You and Me).

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    • 5/5
      I loved this book. I was sucked into the characters, I wanted to know how they were going to see each other again. I also found the concept of remembering all your past lives would be interesting and also be hard. I have not read a book with this kind of concept before so it was very refreshing. Ann writes with ease and it is so enjoyable to read her writing. When I finished the book I yelled NOOOOOOOO! You will have to read the book to know if that was a good no or a bad no. Just know I have placed this book in my favorites list. I recommend it as a great book to read. I actually wanted to call in sick to work so I could finish it. I just couldn't put it down.

      I smell a sequel...I hope. Ann, I want more please.
    • 3/5
      This was an enjoyable read with a nice mix of romance, historic and contemporary fiction. I loved the concept of Daniel's reincarnation, beginning in Antioch 541 AD, and the story of doomed lovers meeting and being torn apart throughout history. Daniel is an old soul who has the ability to remember each lifetime and can recognise Sophia despite her changing form and name each time they meet. However, Sophia (Lucy) doesn't share the same gift although in 2004 she is strangely drawn to the new boy at school. The book alternates between the past and the present as we follow Daniel and Sophia's romance throughout the ages as well as watch their present day relationship develop as Daniel tries to convince Sophia that they are meant to be together. Unfortunately, the book does drag at times and Daniel's voice isn't always convincing, but I think this will be a popular book among teenage girls.
    • 2/5
      Interesting premise, but it's just not holding my attention. After giving it around a week, I quit at page 70.
    • 5/5
      Although I wouldn't have picked a Young Adult Fiction genre, the title hooked me. I loved Daniel's 'voice' and the historical element of the story. I couldn't put it down and it completely carried me into his world.
    • 4/5
      I agree that the ending leaves you hanging but the author has the intention to write a sequel so the ending isn't as bad as many reviews suggest!!
    • 4/5
      This was an interesting premise for a book, and one that was executed very well. A man's soul is reincarnated -- the twist is that he remembers all his previous lives. In the first life he remembers, he accidentally caused the death of a young girl. He sees the girl time and again in different forms throughout his lives. Once she becomes his sister-in-law, the wife of his abusive older brother. During this life he falls in love with her and helps her escape her husband. After this he intentionally seeks her out in every life. This story is told in flashbacks. In his current life Daniel is a high school boy, having followed the girl who develops a "crush" on Daniel. This was a well told story and I could hardly tear myself away from the book. I look forward to future books from Brashares.
    • 3/5
      I thought this book had a lot of promise. But ultimately I felt that it spent too much time in the past. I think the book would have benefited more with more scenes in the present. I didn't expect that because the whole reason I picked this book up was because I was interested in the historical aspects it had and the traveling through time. But as a entertaining story, there wasn't enough prose about how all that traveling through time ultimately changed Daniel as a person. I really liked the flashback sections. So perhaps more of the contemporary sections would have balanced it out nicely. An entertaining read but nothing special for me.
    • 2/5
      I have to say I was SO disappointed with this book. :( The main plot of the book is so interesting and could have been done so much better. It was very slow moving and the time periods that Daniel lived during weren't even that interesting. It wasn't until the very end of the book that I could start to actually like the two characters as a couple because they were rarely together during the first 3/4 of the book! It didn't fit that Daniel was SO in love with Sophia/Constance/Lucy when he had never really gotten to know her. He spent a lot of the time totally pining over her and not doing anything. Then you have the antagonist who also rarely makes an appearance, has no real motive and never is given an ending. Actually the whole book isn't really given an ending. It just sort of stops. I have no idea what happened to Daniel or Lucy. If the ending wouldn't have been left so open and things had actually been wrapped up better then I think I would have walked away from this book with a better feeling. I guess if you like slow moving star crossed lover type stories you will like it. Not that I always have to have a happily ever after but I at least expect SOME sort of ending!!
    • 5/5
      Loved the book - very similar idea as The Otherworldlies BUT this book has Brashares as an author. Makes all the difference changing this from an entertaining read to one that really stays with you. I will say that I am dissatisfied with the ending, although if she is thinking of a sequel she has certainly set that up well. If she is not doing a sequel then, well, I really don't like the ending! Don't make me imagine what will happen, Ann Brashares. Tell me what happens!
    • 1/5
      This book was mostly boring. And when it provoked an emotion in me, it was frustration. Not that much happens to move things along, even the past recollections. And the ending is sort of a non-ending too. It's an interesting concept, but I think it would be better as a short story or novella. I'll stick to traveling pants.
    • 4/5
      A really enjoyable read. The writing flowed easily (well edited too), the story-telling was engrossing, and without spoiling the plot, the explanations of certain aspects worked well; it wasn't too hard to believe. Certain characters were very well developed and others barely, but I assume these will be addressed in the sequel(s). Certain scenes from this will stick in my mind; this was a story well told. I'm very much looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
    • 2/5
      UGH!!! This book is falling so far short of my hopes for it.

      The premise of this book really grabbed me - the idea of having a soul-mate that you keep being reborn into life with.

      The trouble is that the characters are fairly flat and unlikeable, some of the times and places and events seemed forced, I felt many words were thrown in because they were "big" words. The conversations were dramatic or ridiculous. I was listening to the audio version of this and felt that the actors reading the parts were poorly matched to the characters. I made it to disc 3 of 9 and wonder if I was reading this would I have a different reaction. I could not tell if this book was directed to a YA audience of an older one. I did read and like Ann Brashares Sisterhood series and really liked that...but this was impossible for me to finish.
    • 4/5
      This book was great, I couldn't put it down! The ending killed me though, I need the next one to come out.
    • 3/5
      Pretty good. This was an interesting concept and the idea of past lives was fleshed out well. I was disappointed in the ending, however. After everything that happened, the last few chapters were too far-fetched and not as believable as the rest of the story. Overall an entertaining read.
    • 2/5
      Interesting idea, clumsily executed. I kept thinking it was a YA book. The voice of the protagonist is confusing (sometimes first person, sometimes third) and had jarring colloquial language. Similar idea done better in "The Gargoyle".
    • 3/5
      This reminded me of a cross between Ferny and Replay, two of my favorite books. The main difference is that it is a lighter and more romantic read.
    • 3/5
      This book was interesting because it followed an intersting concept that we have lived many times over. Novel follows daniel through many of his lives and his great love for one girl. What makes Daniel interesting is that he remembers all his past lives, something most people don't. This premise makes for a good novel. however it is a bit over the top / teen romance like . As well, it just ends with a letter. No resolution. ug.I hate that.
    • 5/5
      This book explores the theme of incarnation which I am very fascinated with it. The book make us believe, at some point, that our dreams and things we can't understand about ourselves is because we lived lives before this one. This is a beautiful magical love story, filled with story and passion. I cried and I felt hurt. I love this story and I am sad that the book finished. I will never get over this book, I will never forget this story that broke my heart and made me feel alive again.
    • 1/5
      I don't understand what the point of this book is. There was no substance to anything that happened, the characters were flat, the idea was good but the execution was horrible. I should've known from the cover that this wouldn't be a great read.
    • 4/5
      Reminded me a lot of The Time Travelers Wife. But still wondering if the end is really the end.
    • 2/5
      A love story containing a few moments of thought-provoking interaction buried under a whole lot of blech. Can one have intense apathy toward a character? I guess so, since it's the best way to describe my feelings about Daniel. Yeah, dude, keep trying to force your love-of-multiple-lifetimes into a mold she no longer fits. That's definitely the way to treat someone you love.
    • 2/5
      Daniel remembers all of his past lives, and through all of them he has been searching for the woman he loves - Sophia, certain that they are destined to be together. While I loved the premise for this novel, I felt the reality fell dismally short. There was so much more that could have been done with this theme. Daniel's memories of past lives were vague and short - I would have liked to see them fleshed out in greater detail and depth. The main character's disintrest and detachment from his various lives and the people in them, whom he regards as irrelevant bit-players in the overall scheme of things (except for his great love, Sophia) made me feel disintered and detached from the overall narrative. Sophia (or Lucy as she is called in her most recent incarnation) does not have any gift of memory, although she does get a few flashbacks and weird dreams. She is mostly a normal high school (and then college-aged) young adult in the dark about things, and easily falls for the standard evil villain's scheme. The standard evil villain is an abusive husband from the 'Sophia' lifetime and has hunted the two protagonists over the centuries. He's about as stock and one-dimensional as they come. Overall this was a good premise - but a disappointing novel. It could have been fleshed out more. There were no exceptionally dramatic or memorable narrative moments, and while the concept was romantic, I never understood Daniel's obsession with Sophia, which was solely based on a single glance from a distant lifetime. Also, the fact that it took him so long to actually act on his feelings (literally, lifetimes) began to annoy me. This read to me more like a movie pitch than an actual novel, complete with the catchy tag line, 'Sometimes love lasts more than a lifetime.'
    • 4/5
      [Monday, June 28, 2010] The book started off wonderfully but I was shocked to discover that the author imitated Fallen by Lauren Kate, even the names are similar, and Luce-Lucy and Daniel... even the fact that he remembers everything but she doesn't, minus the fallen angel detail the story feels similar to me.
    • 5/5
      This book is amazing! I've read it twice! The narrators were incredible. They made this book come alive even more so than when I read it the first time!
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this book a lot, until the end. The end ruined the experience for me.
    • 2/5
      For most of this book, I was pretty meh. The concept was interesting, talking about reincarnation and past lifes, but the present day couple were not very interesting to me. Daniel can remember his past lifes, but Lucy/Sophia can't and is afraid when Daniel comes on too strong. So he gets huffy and decides to stay away from her for the next five years. She's all mopey and finally decides to sleep with her best friend's little brother (yes, he's older now but it was still kind of icky). What kept me going was the intervals of backstory that Daniel relates about his past lives. The ending was pretty dramatic with the appearance of an antagonist from the past who seems determined to ruin their present situation, a bit too much of jumping the shark. And the final page - well, no spoilers but what a disappointment. Definitely not the book for me.
    • 4/5
      I know I'm about 10 years late to the game, but never has a book made me want to throw it across the room more than this one! I really couldn't decide on giving this book three stars for breaking my heart or the five stars it deserves for a beautiful novel...so, I settled on four.I'm so disappointed that this novel isn't going anywhere. It's stuck with the ending it was given in the hopes of a sequel, but NOPE...10 years later...not happening! And the late-to-the-game people like me, read this book fully invested, and come out completely HEART BROKEN with the ending. I'm dead.Now, I'm not saying don't read this book...DO! But realize the ending is going to completely devastate you and leave you with all the feels.
    • 1/5
      I got part way into this audio book about time-travel/reincarnation and had to jump ship. Of course it is 2 souls intertwined through millenia, but only one realizes it. The story takes place partly in modern day (2000s) VA with the love interest (Lucy/Sophia) pretty much unaware of her past lives, but her true love Daniel, very much aware and pursuing her through lifetimes and historical moments. They are seniors in high school in this current incarnation. Although the concept is explained rationally enough and bolstered by some scientific data, it seems pretty far-fetched to have SO many lives. Once Daniel's past-life nemesis showed up in the present, I was done.
    • 4/5
      I have been wanting to read this book for a long time. When I first read about it, I was fascinated by the reincarnation aspect of it. I was not disappointed. I'm not sure if this book is considered YA, but it really didn't have that normal YA feel, if you know what I mean. When Daniel and Lucy 'meet' in the present time, they are teenagers, but Daniel is various ages throughout the book as he recounts his past lives beginning in the 500s AD. These are the parts of the book that I most enjoyed...the looking back in history. Daniel has been reincarnated many times over and he remembers every life he has led. I'm not sure if that would be a blessing or a curse and I do not think that Daniel always looked on it as a blessing either. Intertwined in the story is the love story between Daniel and Lucy/Sophia. Lucy does not remember her past lives and when Daniel approaches her with the idea, it spooks her. Understandable. I mean it would be pretty incredible for someone to come up to you and tell you that you have lived before. When Lucy and Daniel finally do meet again, there is an element of danger left over from the past that is hellbent to interfere. So, as we approach the end, it is very climactic and exciting and then...it just ends! I was pissed until I found out that this is a planned trilogy. Thank goodness because I'm not sure the book would have survived my wrath.

      I am a person who likes to think that we are reincarnated each time we die. The reasons for my feeling this way are because of children who have imaginary friends, which I had when I was a child. I believe that these children are remembering past lives. Also, I believe that the feelings of deja vu we experience throughout life could be shadows of our previous lives. Sorry...didn't mean to get all new agey on you here, but my beliefs are just one of the reasons I liked this book. If you normally steer clear of YA novels, don't do it on this one. Like I said, it's not your normal YA book. And if you like an historical aspect in books, you will most probably like it as well. I'm not saying that it has the most extensively researched historical bits I've ever read, but it's believable in its own right. In all, I recommend this book.
    • 2/5
      Lucy is crushing.She’s crushing hard.She loves Daniel, like totally, oh, em, gee.Problem is: she (and most of her friends) are pretty sure that he’s oblivious to her existence.After a mildly traumatizing scuffle at a high school dance, they find themselves in each others arms, whispering and remembering things from very strange places.It turns out that they do know each other. They love each other, in fact.It’s simply been a few lifetimes since they have embraced.Fighting time and other evil forces, Lucy and Daniel are sent, sprawling back through time’s memories as they piece together their “today” from myriad tomorrows.The outcome is a little bit lukewarm but the concept is really neat. A history geek at heart, the idea of two souls following each other through some of history’s best and worst times, strikes me as romantic and entirely fascinating.Overall, the concept worked for me. The story, for most of the book, worked for me, too. Daniel’s voice remains the more lucid but Lucy has her moments of clarity, too.I think, the thing that didn’t work for me was the “Adult Fiction” genre label. As a few other reviewers have pointed out, this is , in truth, YA. Sure, a few eloquently placed language bombs are scattered throughout and a few incarnations of Daniel and Lucy drop their, ahem, socks but, over all, this was written in a style and pace similar to the simplicity of most of the mediocre YA fiction, out there.Now, don’t read this, wrong; I enjoyed the book. I did, though, think there could have been a little bit more depth added to Lucy and to the story, itself to merit the move to Adult Fiction. Even truly good YA needs a bit more depth to sail a story. The book is apparently part one of three, however, so maybe it will flesh out in the second and third.