Itemize Of Books Made You Up
Title | : | Made You Up |
Author | : | Francesca Zappia |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 428 pages |
Published | : | May 19th 2015 by Greenwillow Books |
Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Health. Mental Health. Romance. Mental Illness. Fiction. Realistic Fiction |
Francesca Zappia
Hardcover | Pages: 428 pages Rating: 4.06 | 22807 Users | 3771 Reviews
Description In Pursuance Of Books Made You Up
Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be—sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. Made You Up tells the story of Alex, a high school senior unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. This is a compelling and provoking literary debut that will appeal to fans of Wes Anderson, Silver Linings Playbook and Liar.Alex fights a daily battle to figure out the difference between reality and delusion. 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 classes begin, and 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.
Funny, provoking, and ultimately moving, this debut novel featuring the quintessential unreliable narrator will have readers turning the pages and trying to figure out what is real and what is made up.
Identify Books In Favor Of Made You Up
Original Title: | Made You Up |
ISBN: | 006229010X (ISBN13: 9780062290106) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Alexandra Victoria Ridgemont, Miles Richter, Celia Hendricks, Tucker Beaumont, Clifford Ackerley, Mr. McCoy, Jetta Lorenc, Art Babrow |
Setting: | Hannibal's Rest, Indiana(United States) |
Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Debut Goodreads Author, and for Young Adult Fiction (2015), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2017) |
Rating Of Books Made You Up
Ratings: 4.06 From 22807 Users | 3771 ReviewsRate Of Books Made You Up
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/Hey look, its another book I read two months ago and never reviewed. Bonus this time it was a library book (thanks a lot for denying me the ARC, NetGalley!) and my loan expired therefore erasing all of my quotes. Fail. Luckily my old lady brain didnt sabotage me on this one so I can kind of halfa$$ review it. Lucky again that this is a book where the less said is better because SPOILERS so if this is on your TBR be careful wading toooh hi there, it is I, hater of the popular books loved by millions of people. ◇the beginning was actually really good◇then Miles came◇i hate Miles◇a lot◇i also hate contemporaries◇but this one was "really good"◇but it wasn't◇it seemed like every other YA Contemporary, except the MC in this book had schizophrenia (how do you even pronounce that) ◇i actually liked alex and i enjoyed reading about her character and learned about her condition, but◇THIS IS A CONTEMPORARY◇so i FUCKING HATED IT◇and
Oh well, look at that! I created a new shelve just for this book: 0-star. It disgusts me that an author would use all the symptoms of schizophrenia that seem "glamorous", "sensationalist" or ask for angst with so much as no regard for accuracy. It disgusts me that because of authors like that, people are clapping their hands, thinking this is accurate and sensitive while it is not. In fact, it's so disgustingly inaccurate that I could use this book any time to give one of my professors or
Honestly books like this piss me off. Authors (and the media in general) either treat mental illness like it's the plague of the earth and every sick
"Are you real?" Right after reading this book, my feelings was all over the place. And if you don't know, when a book does that to you it only means one thing: the book is all kinds of amazing. Made You Up is such a powerful and poignant novel. It was engrossing to the point that the book is absolutely gripped inside your heart and the desire to let go... is nonexistent. I love how unreliable our main character is. I'm the kind of reader who always puts herself in the main character's
"You're Jetta."He shook his head.I frowned. "Theo?""No.""Well if you're not either of them, you'd have to be me."He blinked. "It's me?" I said."I couldn't think of anyone else," he said. So....to keep pace with my current obsession of flawed and/or tortured characters and unreliable narrators, I just had to read this. I can't even begin to imagine living in a world where I don't know what's real and what isn't. It's just unfathomable, to me. To look on my desk and see a spider, only to
Not one for contemporaries but this one definitely made the exception. So beautifully written.
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