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Remember Me?

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When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed.

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May 05, 2008 Trin rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, english-lit, amnesia

This would usually be the time when I would ask the largely rhetorical and semi-pathetic question, “Why do I keep reading Sophie Kinsella books?” Well, this time the answer is blatantly obvious—the plot of this one involves amnesia, yo, and I can never resist amnesia—and the question is kind of unfair. Because this wasn’t so bad—far less annoying than the last few Shopaholic books. Kinsella’s strength has always been her ability to create an amusing, fast-paced narrative, and coupled with the a...more This would usually be the time when I would ask the largely rhetorical and semi-pathetic question, “Why do I keep reading Sophie Kinsella books?” Well, this time the answer is blatantly obvious—the plot of this one involves amnesia, yo, and I can never resist amnesia—and the question is kind of unfair. Because this wasn’t so bad—far less annoying than the last few Shopaholic books. Kinsella’s strength has always been her ability to create an amusing, fast-paced narrative, and coupled with the amnesia plot, I really didn’t want to put this book down. However, it also shares many of the same irritating traits as Kinsella’s other novels. The protagonist is once again a flighty, shallow woman who spends most of the book flailing and helpless, wriggling out of scrapes mostly through luck and/or the help of a strong, powerful man. Also, Kinsella really has no idea what it means to be poor. Not only are these novels full of rich people, the “poor” characters still have large country houses (but they smell kind of funny!) or can afford their own flats in London. Uh-huh. I wish I had your problems, ladies.

For what this was, it was fun enough. Actually, in some ways it’s becoming funnier in retrospect, because I’m realizing what the plot reminded me of. In Remember Me?, 24-year-old Lexi wakes up after receiving a bump on the head to discover that she’s actually a very different and successful 28-year-old version of herself who’s lost four years of her memory after a car accident. Which brings to mind a book I read as a teenager, The Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon, in which 13-year-old Stacy wakes up after a four-year coma to solve a murder and embark on a vaguely squicky romance with a 23-year-old. Mostly I remember the latter book due to its having one of the most unintentionally hilarious last paragraphs ever: “My cheek glows from the warmth of his skin through his shirt, and I can hear the steady beat of his heart. I put my arms around him. I’m Stacy McAdams. I’m seventeen. And I’m definitely in the right body!” Ahahahahaha. I guess we should all be glad that in Remember Me?, Lexi merely engages in some rather embarrassing activities involving muffins.

Since this review has clearly descended into tangent city, I’d also like to call attention to something that was in no way Kinsella’s fault, but which made me want to laugh/cry almost as much as Stacy’s self-affirmations. Dear American publishers of English novels: We, your readers, are not idiots. We can figure out that, if a novel is set in London, “football” means the sport with the round ball and “crisps” are not some unfathomable food, even more impossible to decode than this “Philosopher’s Stone” I’ve heard stories of. We might, in fact, be reading this book set in London in part to soak up the English atmosphere and indulge our Anglophilia. So you are in fact helping no one when you take a manuscript from across the pond and do a find/replace on all the “British” terms, leaving you with a long scene that involves your heroine making repeated and unintentionally comic reference to a “packet of chips.” Yes, thank you for clarifying that the characters did not just purchase a plastic bag of French fries from a gas station; however, you’ve now got them sounding like poor confused souls with horrible mid-Atlantic accents. NO ONE SAYS PACKET OF CHIPS. Americans say bag of chips. English people say packet of crisps. Please choose one or, better yet, LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE. Next thing you know all novels will take place in North Generica, because god forbid readers be exposed to something unfamiliar or spend half a second feeling CONFUSED.

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So annnnnnnyway…like I said, way way back in my first paragraph, this was actually pretty fun and diverting. Much better than the later Shopaholic books, and a perfectly decent beach or plane read. Or in my case, couch and bathtub read. If you’re in need of some froth, you could do a lot worse. After all, this is froth WITH BONUS AMNESIA.(less)

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May 25, 2008 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: guiltypleasures

Sophie Kinsella's books follow a formula that's as simple and delicious as my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Start with a twenty-something heroine who's slogging away at her career in London. She's far from perfect. Neither an Oxbridge graduate, cover girl, or WAG of a world-class footballer, our girl's best quality is that she's a true-blue friend. She's a pretty hard worker, decent and well-meaning. She hasn't a mean bone in her body. Her flaws tend to run in the direction of materiali...more Sophie Kinsella's books follow a formula that's as simple and delicious as my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Start with a twenty-something heroine who's slogging away at her career in London. She's far from perfect. Neither an Oxbridge graduate, cover girl, or WAG of a world-class footballer, our girl's best quality is that she's a true-blue friend. She's a pretty hard worker, decent and well-meaning. She hasn't a mean bone in her body. Her flaws tend to run in the direction of materialism. This may manifest itself in a shopping addiction, or a tad too much lusting after designer goods, or a bit too much interest in the glitzy trappings of material success. The recipe in The Undomestic Goddess is slightly different--like an inverse chocolate chip cookie recipe, I suppose. (Chocolate dough with white chocolate chips). The heroine was a brilliant, high-powered City attorney or investment banker(can't remember which), who lived for her work but was clueless outside the office.

To these raw ingredients is added a crisis: a nasty workplace conspiracy ( The Undomestic Goddess ), a terrifying plane ride that loosens her lips(Can You Keep a Secret?), or an automobile crash(Remember Me?). If I recall, the Shopaholic books' crises pretty much revolve around the pitfalls of overspending. :)

The crisis performs a function as essential as the baking soda in the cookie recipe: it forces our heroine to rise to the occasion. She draws on qualities that she never knew she possessed, using them to make lemonade from lemons. The sugar is of course provided by Mr. Perfect, who crops up somewhere in her newly-jumbled circumstances. Our lucky London heroine grows in important ways, and finds true love in the process.

Lexi Smart, the central character in Remember Me?, learns an especially important lesson: the perfect life-- with a perfect body, career, and husband--just isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I know that cookies aren't good for me. I should be eating fruits and veggies, right? But once in a while I really need to indulge myself in something that's unrealistically sweet, simple and predictable. What fun to imagine that career success can come so easily from selling vintage carpet designs--and in London, no less!

Conclusion: Remember Me? is an especially quick and fun read that's driven by an admirable philosophy that I'm determined to adopt. I give it four yummy stars.

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Apr 29, 2008 Laura rated it 1 of 5 stars

This book represents every reason why I do not just pick up adult novels and read them without getting a trusted opinion. But, I'd heard of this author from her previous work (even though I've never read them), it's been well received, and the description sounded interesting, so I thought I'd try it. The fact that every other page contained the f-word (not an exaggeration) was enough to turn me off to the book. Add in the fact that the characters discussion of sex made it sound more like a boys...more

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Dec 19, 2009 Farah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, novel, romance, reviewed

Oke. Buku ini selesai gue baca hanya dalam waktu beberapa jam saja.
Sebenernya bukan karena ceritanya yang menarik banget, tapi karena emang gue ngga bisa tidur aja.

Untuk ukuran buku yang menceritakan tentang tokoh utama yang kena amnesia, buku ini ngga terlalu rumit untuk diikutin jalan ceritanya.

*catatan: bukan tipe-tipe amnesia yang seperti di sinetron Indonesia yah. Yang jatuh terguling-guling dari tangga, terus pas buka mata udah ada di rumah sakit dengan kepala diperban, dan bertanya-tanya...more

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Feb 25, 2008 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

From the Associated Press:
¶ "Remember Me?" (Dial Press Hardcover, 389 pages, $25), by Sophie Kinsella: Lexi Smart is living a fantasy. She woke up from an accident to find herself rich, successful and married to a smoking hot man.
¶ The only problem is that she can't remember how she got to this happy place in life. Amnesia after a car accident has wiped out her memory of the past three years.
¶ In trying to recover her past, Lexi gradually discovers that her perfect life isn't everything it seems...more From the Associated Press:
¶ "Remember Me?" (Dial Press Hardcover, 389 pages, $25), by Sophie Kinsella: Lexi Smart is living a fantasy. She woke up from an accident to find herself rich, successful and married to a smoking hot man.
¶ The only problem is that she can't remember how she got to this happy place in life. Amnesia after a car accident has wiped out her memory of the past three years.
¶ In trying to recover her past, Lexi gradually discovers that her perfect life isn't everything it seems. Nor is she the person she thought she was.
¶ Best-selling author Sophie Kinsella uses a familiar framework in her latest novel, granting Lexi's dreams and then poking holes in them. Dozens of books and movies follow characters who discover their true selves only when they give up commonly held notions of success.
¶ But Kinsella, who wrote the popular "Shopaholic" series, isn't a chick lit icon for no reason." Remember Me?" is good fun, a page-turner that will keep a reader up all night.
¶ Twenty-eight-year-old Lexi is a sympathetic heroine who dreams of having her teeth fixed and hosting a disco party in her plush new loft apartment in London. After suffering with an absentee father, loser boyfriend and a lame job as an "associate junior" flooring sales manager, she's understandably thrilled by the sudden windfall.
¶ But she quickly learns that there's a lot of work involved in dressing like a supermodel while being both the perfect corporate wife and a corporate executive for a struggling carpet company. Nevermind the fallout from her appearance on a reality show strikingly similar to "The Apprentice."
¶ There's also the matter of men _ two of them. Lexi wakes up to find herself with a "drop-dead gorgeous" husband and a lover who's even better. It's a shock for someone who can't remember cheating before she got a knock on the head.
¶ Unsurprisingly, Lexi manages to resolve her conflicts in the boardroom and bedroom and emerge happier than in either her "old" or "new" lives. But while the ending may be expected, it isn't unsatisfying.
¶ And there's a few inspired moments along the way _ such as Lexi discovering that she and her lover have been commemorating rendezvous by planting sunflowers on his balcony. Her throat tightens with emotion, and perhaps in spite of oneself, so will a reader's.(less)

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Mar 19, 2008 Michele rated it 5 of 5 stars

My First Sophie Kinsella Book
Lexie Smart. Was she or was she not Ghandi in a previous life? The fun and farcical story of Lexie Smart has the heroine in this tale, Remember Me?, wondering how she got to a completely different station in life between the years 2004 and 2007. She believes she's stumbled into a dream life, but soon steps into a hornet's nest of complications, including finding out she's married to a "guy she just met," Eric, who is so rigid you have to sit up straighter just readin...more

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Mar 25, 2008 Ann added it · review of another edition

Shelves: stalled

Well, sadly, sniff sniff, this book wasn't quite as fun as I was hoping. I mean, it's a comedy, but I just wasn't as into the story or character as the Kinsella Shopaholic books. Too bad, too. I've kind of counted Kinsella as a "favorite chick-lit author" and she still is, just, maybe I'll have to limit it to her Shopaholic series. I only made it half way through this book, so, who knows, perhaps the ending is great! But, I figured there were so many other books I'm anxious to read, that it seem...more

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Mar 25, 2008 Kathryn added it · review of another edition

Shelves: stalled, annie-and-katie-bookclub

Well, sadly this book was NOT up to Kinsella's standards, in my opinion. I made it about half way through and decided that it just was not picking-up, was not that amusing or entertaining or enjoyable, and really not worth my time to finish it. The plot seemed rather predictable, the humor stilted, and I couldn't get into the characters. Sigh. Annie and I were so looking forward to it, too. Oh well, this will give us more time to read other books together, like the sequel to "Larklight" which we...more

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Feb 18, 2013 D.G. marked it as dnf · review of another edition

Shelves: reviewed

Can't take it anymore...Lexi is not the sharpest knife in the drawer - she has really big problems and all she's thinking about is clothes and crap.

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Aug 24, 2010 Robin (RBBR) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-romance

I came across a sample book in Barnes and Noble for this one and after reading the chapters in the booklet I definitely wanted to read it. Not only because its by one of my fave authors but because of the premise its based on "what if you suddenly had everything you wanted would it really make you as happy as you thought it would". I recommend this one.

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Aug 15, 2008 Norabee rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: hospital patients, friends

Recommended to Norabee by: friend

The idea behind this book is thought provoking - Ladies, what would you do if you suddenly woke up in the hospital to find out that not only have you no memory of the last three years of your life, but that everything you do remember has changed? This would include your appearance (for the Better!), your career (you've been Promoted!), your love life (You're Married!! & to a really good-looking guy), your lifestyle (Fantastic! Your husband is rich and you make three times as much as you used...more The idea behind this book is thought provoking - Ladies, what would you do if you suddenly woke up in the hospital to find out that not only have you no memory of the last three years of your life, but that everything you do remember has changed? This would include your appearance (for the Better!), your career (you've been Promoted!), your love life (You're Married!! & to a really good-looking guy), your lifestyle (Fantastic! Your husband is rich and you make three times as much as you used to) and that your social life has changed too. Well, maybe not everything new is better - you seem to have all new friends but your old friends; the one's that matter the most to you act like you don't even exist. This is the case of Lexi Smart - a young woman who has the misfortune (or would that be fortune?) to suffer a brain injury after falling down a set of steps.

Sophie Kinsella is a masterful story teller; she mixes real life with just enough drama to carry you along and helps you invest in her characters. She takes Lexi from an average "any woman" to an ambitious, super styler who now has the sleek body of an athlete and makes us all wish that we could be her; then Sophie switches it up and we discover that there are cracks in the perfect exterior and that not everything is picture perfect.

The story gets even more involved when we find out that Lexi's last memory is indeed from three years earlier, but that the reason she's in the hospital is because of a very recent car accident. Somehow her brain injury jumps her memory back three years and it was during those three years that she consciously made all the changes in her life. She just doesn't remember how or why. She decides to jump right in, thinking that if she plays along, hopefully her memory will return. So she moves in with her gorgeous husband, makes plans to visit her job and see her friends. She just can't understand why she's no longer tight with the girls at work that she used to always hang out with. She even meets a man that seems to know her more than he should and before long, the sparks begin to fly!

Readers are treated to a mystery as Lexi takes on the task of discovering who she is and what is really important to her - she learns just what events sparked the tremendous changes in her life and as she gets to know herself, she discovers who she really wants to be. We ride along with Lexi as she takes on challenges and wonder if she'll ever regain her memory and if or when she does, how will it change her life?

As a personal aside, after reading this book description, I actually gasped! This is ME! Well No, not really but this book really meant something to me personally, as I too, woke up in the hospital after a bump to the had after falling down the stairs and I had no recollection of it either - my life hadn't changed much - except I did lose almost 10 pounds (feeding tubes are great - there's practically no fat pumped in there!) Fortunately, all my important memories are still intact, but it was so intriguing to me when I saw the description of this book that I just had to read it and I'm so glad that I did! Everyone can enjoy this tale; even if you haven't found yourself in Lexi's shoes (or mine!) because the story speaks to everyone about the perils of wanting "the good life" and what can happen as you discover that maybe, just maybe you may already have it!
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Mar 18, 2008 Therese rated it 3 of 5 stars

I’ll admit that I enjoyed this book; after all I gave it 3 stars. The plot line was intriguing – albeit not entirely believable. Lexi Smart wakes up in a hospital thinking that the year is 2004 and that she has bad teeth, frizzy hair, and a lacklustre job. Imagine her surprise when she finds out that it is 2008 and she not only has amnesia, but a whole new (and improved) appearance, job, and relationship! But along with the positives of her new life are plenty of negatives, most notably her brok...more

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Jun 14, 2008 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

I love Sophie Kinsella. Whenever I read her novels, I can't help but think she seems like the kind of woman I'd be friends with. She writes the way I think, and I can relate to at least one aspect of every single one of her characters. I AM her demographic.

I also love Kinsella's imaginitive plots. In Remember Me?, Lexi wakes up in hospital with a head injury and quickly realizes she's lost three years of her memory. In her mind, it's 2004 and she's your typical, underpaid twenty-something with a...more

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Mar 03, 2008 Karina rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-fiction-chick-lit

Really good chick lit/women's fiction about what drives a person to change their life around...and the repercussions one then regrets.

The main character, Lexi, suffers amnesia after a car accident and can't remember the last three years. Her last memory was of her self as a loser with a loser life...but she wakes up to a hunk of a husband, a promotion at work, and a new look. Seems perfect, right, but she soon discovers it's not and has to figure out what made her change before she can make it b...more

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Feb 27, 2008 Keris rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed

It's not the waking up in hospital that freaks out Lexi Smart. It's the fact that she's got nails to die for, porcelain veneers, a glossy mane of hair, a Louis Vuitton handbag, she's Manager of a whole department ... and, oh yes, she's married to a drop-dead gorgeous millionaire husband.

The only drawback she can see is that she's aged three years. But then so has her mother and (not-so-now) little sister.

How the hell did all that happen?

And what happened to the last three years?

To read the rest...more

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Apr 16, 2008 Christina rated it 1 of 5 stars

Sorry Ms. Kinsella, but this book did not live up to my expectations based on the Shopaholic series. The characters were not at all likable and the plot never meshed. Like a good meal that's been eaten too many times, the chick-lit recipe of "kooky single girl has life fall apart, meets boy of her dreams, loses him, gets him back and lives happily ever after" is getting worn out and stale. Authors of this genre need to bring some aspect to the story that's unique in order to make the book intere...more

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Mar 01, 2008 Heidi rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult

I was very disappointed in this book. I felt like the author was spending more time trying to use every swear word she had ever heard than developing a good story. The concept intrigued me -- who isn't interested in amnesia? But the story was really about unhappiness and unfaithfulness. It was uninspired. That being said, if any of my friends still want to read it I read it with a black marker in my hand and now at least the bad language and some scenes are edited out!

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Sep 16, 2008 Bev rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit-indulgence

I can always count on Sophie Kinsella's books for a delightful escape, and this one is no exception. Her newest heroine, Lexi, is just as lovable as her others, and she has retained the knack of making me laugh out loud and tear up at the same time. When you finally learn about the sunflower reference on the cover, I hope it takes your breath away as it did for me. Enjoy this charming story!

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May 09, 2008 Melissa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit

This book was so satisfying, I actually closed the book and sighed when it was over. I love Sophie Kinsella. She's just a guilty pleasure. I know this is not great literature, some of her characters are one-dimensional (Eric, the husband) and I can always see the end coming a mile away, but I just feel so good after reading one of her books.

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Mar 01, 2013 Sukyna Ssi rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013_borrowed

It was ok!! The things I didn't like about the book are probably more numerous that those I actually liked!!
Lexi wakes up one day in a hospital, and finds out that she has lost all the memories about the last three years. She finds herself in 2007, married to a good looking man, she's the Director of the department she was working at three years ago, and she's more beautiful and skinny. Well, all that seems perfect at first, but as she gets to know the new people around her as well as the old on...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Sana rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: absolute-favorites

I started reading Remember Me? when I had practically nothing to do and I did not expect it to be such a light read. It was probably because I though it to be one of those typical girl-losses-memory-gains-it-back story. Boy, was I in for a surprise!

First off, the opening of the book, where Lexi wakes up in the hospital room had a very impersonal feel to it. Even when her husband comes in to meet her, all of it feels just too perfunctory.

Lexi has no idea how she went from living in a shabby apar...more

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Sep 23, 2008 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Chick lit fans/Kinsella readers

Shelves: chicklit, funny, romance

Sophie Kinsella has a knack for writing fun, humorous stories that sometimes take a different turn than most chick lit novels. Though the Shop-a-holic books became slightly repetitive, her other stories always have a touch of refreshing originality.

In “Remember Me?,” Lexi, the main character, wakes up in a hospital room. The last thing she remembers is a night on the town with her friends that ended with her falling down some stairs onto the sidewalk. Unfortunately, that event happened three ye...more

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Jul 09, 2008 Barbara rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008

I picked up Remember Me? because a member of an online group I’m in suggested it. That and I like Sophie Kinsella. While her books aren’t deep, they are fun. I’ve read all of the Shopaholic books (and, really, who hasn’t known a Becky Bloomwood?) but I loved Domestic Goddess.
The premise is simple: Lexi Smart has a car accident and wakes up in a hospital thinking it’s three years earlier. She has a husband she doesn’t know and an entire life she doesn’t recognize. Nothing in her current life is...more

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Jul 09, 2008 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio-book, read-in-2008

Imagine waking up one day to find you have the "perfect" life--great job, ideal spouse, the right look and money to satisfy your every need and whim.

In "Remember Me?" Lexi Smart does just that--wakes up to the perfect life. Lexi wakes up in a hospital following a blow to the head and having amnesia. The last three years of her life are missing and she's gone from a frumpy girl with the nickname "Snaggletooth" to a high-powered corporate career woman with a complete make-over and a wealthy husba...more

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Mar 10, 2009 Brittany rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of Kinsella's other books

Recommended to Brittany by: Me

Shelves: girly-books, british, fiction

How I Came To Read This Book: The premise of this book in comparison to the last few of Kinsella's sounded much more appealing to me, so I preordered it from Chapters.

The Plot: Lexi wakes up in the hospital, slightly surprised that her tumble down the stairs after a night on the town with her girlfriends landed her there. Then the truth is discerned...Lexi is not the 25-year-old singleton she thought she was, she's actually 28 and suffering from an odd bout of amnesia following a car crash. Lexi...more How I Came To Read This Book: The premise of this book in comparison to the last few of Kinsella's sounded much more appealing to me, so I preordered it from Chapters.

The Plot: Lexi wakes up in the hospital, slightly surprised that her tumble down the stairs after a night on the town with her girlfriends landed her there. Then the truth is discerned...Lexi is not the 25-year-old singleton she thought she was, she's actually 28 and suffering from an odd bout of amnesia following a car crash. Lexi is even more surprised that in the last three years she's aggressively moved up the corporate food chain, has transformed into a skinnier, slicker version of her former self, and lives in a to-die-for flat with her gorgeous, successful husband. But of course, not everything is peachy keen in Lexi's world as she realizes the major trade-offs she's made in exchange for this seemingly cushy lifestyle, and struggles to get at least one of her old lives back.

The Good & The Bad: This is possibly my fave Sophie Kinsella book, to the point where I'd almost give it 5 stars. Although many people probably like the frenetic pace and characters of her other books, I actually enjoyed the fact Lexi seems like a pretty rational, albeit a tad confused and spirited, person. The book might not be quite as comedic or chick-flick-friendly as past Kinsella offerings, but I felt like what it was trying to accomplish was a lot more heartfelt and sentimental, and best of all, relatable. I honestly could have read another 100 pages of the book, I didn't want it to end. I felt like it found a more comfortable place between seriousness, sentimentality, and humour than what she seemed to be going for in The Undomestic Goddess and I appreciated it. While not a mind-bending book by any stretch of the imagination, the emotions and sweetness underlying the more predictable and kitschy plot twists made this a great read in my books.

The Bottom Line: Quite possibly Kinsella's best.

Anything Memorable?: No.

50-Book Challenge?: Book #28 in 2008.(less)

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Jun 22, 2008 Izlinda rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance

This book isn't really straight up "romance" like I imagine Jude Deveraux or Judith McNaught to be. Or even Nora Roberts. However, I didn't have a shelf for chick-lit.

The premise is very interesting. A woman - Lexi - has an accident after tripping while running to get a taxi and wakes up in the hospital three years later. With a successful husband, rich manicured nails, a (totalled) Mercedes, and a executive position at her company. Before she had a boyfriend (Loser Dave), bitten nails to the q...more

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Jun 15, 2008 Mzm rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone looking for a quick, fun and entertaining read.

Okay this was my second book by Sophie Kinsella and I was not disappointed. In fact, I was so delighted that mid-book I checked out a copy of her book, Can You Keep A Secret? from library.

I really enjoyed Remember Me? Although the heroine in the book Lexi Smart was reminiscent of the heroine in Undomestic Goddess (also the same in Can You Keep A Secret?) the storyline itself was pretty formulatic just like Undomestic Goddess and Can You Keep A Secret but they are all so well written that you get...more

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Apr 27, 2008 Stella rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit

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May 12, 2008 Yekti Pratiwi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: light-books' reader

Recommended to Yekti by: The ChickLit Groupies

akhirnya perlu waktu berbulan2 untuk nyelesain buku ni... dari bulan maret gw punya buku ni... finally i'm finish reading this book..

This is just like other Sophie Kinsella's writing.. Dengan bahasa yang ringan, fun, n cerdas...

Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella

Buku ini bercerita tentang Lexi Smart, who got bump in her head n got amnesia.. She lost her three-years memory of her life..
The last things she remembered about her life are she was clubbing with three of her bestfriends when this accident...more akhirnya perlu waktu berbulan2 untuk nyelesain buku ni... dari bulan maret gw punya buku ni... finally i'm finish reading this book..

This is just like other Sophie Kinsella's writing.. Dengan bahasa yang ringan, fun, n cerdas...

Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella

Buku ini bercerita tentang Lexi Smart, who got bump in her head n got amnesia.. She lost her three-years memory of her life..
The last things she remembered about her life are she was clubbing with three of her bestfriends when this accident heppened. She was a snaggletooth, fat, flooring-staff who didnt get yearly-bonus because she missed two days of working day, she pissed-off with her boyfriend, Loser David, she lost her dead n had her dead's funeral on the next day.

When she woke up in the hospital, she finds that it is 2007, three years ahead from the last time she remembered. Her daughter, Amy, has grown mature, becoming young adult. Her mom is getting older. And when she heads to a mirror, she freaks about her figure. She loses her snaggletooth, two size smaller of her body, her hair is long n smooth. And she is not a flooring-staff anymore but she's a director of flooring department who has posh name card.

The most crazy thing she finds is that she has a husband: Eric, a charming n handsome man with expensive n stylish shirt, who loves doing charity, a tycoon in property business. This man really cares with her n loves her beauty, adores her teeth n really likes the way she swings her briefcase. This man is not a Loser Dave, whom she's been dating before.

When she goes back to her house with her "stranger-husband", she amazes with their married-house. It's a massive n light remote-control house with a housekeepers, big screen, priceless ornament inside, big terrace, a one-hundred-thousand-year-old virtual kitten, ten-thousand-pounds sofa, and others amazing things inside n outside.

She has so bloody many of clothes in big room (not a wardrobe, but big room): crisp white shirts, tailored black trousers, suits in shades of mushrooms and taupe, chiffony evening wear, luxurious underwear, all of them are branded, brand-new, n immaculate.

A lot of people she doesnt remember. She has so much girl-friend she doesnt remember any of memory. The last best-friends she remembers are Fi, Deb, n Carolyn who went clubbing together with her at the last day she remember about her past life. But she founds all of them hate her. They tell her that she's a bitch-boss-from-hell.
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Mar 19, 2008 Violet rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: women

I really enjoyed this book, as I do most all of Sophie Kinsella's work. I read most of her Shopaholic Series, and I was excited to see that she had written something a little different.

The book opens on the main character, Lexi out with her friends. She slips and falls, and when she awakes she finds out that it's three years later, and she had been in a car accident. She has amnesia and couldn't remember anything from the past three years. But her old friends are gone, she looks different - and...more

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About Sophie Kinsella

Madeleine Wickham (born 12 December 1969) is a bestselling British author under her pseudonym, Sophie Kinsella. Educated at New College, Oxford, she worked as a financial journalist before turning to fiction. She is best known for writing a popular series of chick-lit novels. The Shopaholic novels series focuses on the misadventures of Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who cannot manage her...more

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“The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.” — 392 people liked it

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