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Chargement... Made You Up (édition 2017)par Francesca Zappia (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This book was so amazing. I am enthralled by the storytelling ability of Zappia and the way she completely submerges us in Alex's world, causing us to question, just as Alex does because of her schizophrenia, what is real and what is a hallucination. So sensitively written, and yet humerous and heart-warming as well. I LOVED the relationship that developed with Miles, and that she wrote two characters who weren't neurotypical and did it with such devotion and love. Watching their sweet relationship form from that first scene in the prologue was just adorable. The sub-plot with the scoreboard and the drama at school was interesting at times, butthe true heart of this story was all Alex and Miles, and it was beautifully done. 4.5/5 stars. Please excuse typos/misspellings. Entered on screen reader. A fine book but painful to read. It makes you wonder why a mental illness carries such a stigma compared to a physical disease like cancer. Even though knowing that I was reading an unreliable narrator I was still fairly shocked to learn that What an amazing book! Made You Up is well written taking the difficult subject of mental illness and making it accessible to a young audience by weaving it into the life of a high school student trying to find her way in a new school. Alex suffers through the usual angst associated with high school, but wondering all the while how much of her new life is real and how much is imagined. If you read this story, have a few tissues ready because it will grab your emotions and not let go until the very end. The climax was a little hard to follow, not knowing how much was really happening in the story and how much Alex was imagining, but without a doubt, this story is well worth reading. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to beâ??sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. For fans of Silver Linings Playbook and Liar, this thought-provoking debut tells the story of Alex, a high school seniorâ??and the ultimate unreliable narratorâ??unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. Alex fights a daily battle to figure out what is real and what is not. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8 Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She's pretty optimistic about her chances until she runs into Miles. Didn't she imagine him? Before she knows it, Alex is making friends, going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing all the usual rites of passage for teenagers. But Alex is used to being crazy. She's not prepared for normal. Can she trust herself? Can we trust Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I think I'll just stick to the plot. I like Alex for what she is, she is, I'm sorry if this sounds wrong, by astronomical amounts, less annoying compared to most YA protagonists. The romance in the book was alright, I'm not too thrilled about it but eh okay, I wasn't hurt by it.
There were points where the characters seemed a little too much to me and I have to admit it all made sense in the end.
I think the majority of the story, is something that Alex made up. Ah yes, wait for it, even Miles.
The author tries to drop hints that Alex's condition during the story is much worse than she narrates it to be, which made the whole book even more interesting.
It could be me over-interpreting the book but hey, I think it's much more than the surface.
Alex's ability to humanise and give stories to these "hallucinations" that she has is proof that the entire story and most of the traits that she gave these characters are made up.
However, a book could be interpreted in different ways, to those who interpreted this as a really beautiful YA novel with a great romance, I'm happy you got a happy book. As for the others, I'm sorry you had to go through a depressing story.
P.S. I MIGHT LOWER MY RATING AFTER I LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ACTUAL EFFECTS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND IT'S MEDICATION ON PEOPLE. ( )