The Memory Box

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After that, her life spins out of control and she is on the verge of collapse from all her paranoia. It kept my interest throughout and Caroline's sarcasm cracked me up! It was different from what I've been reading and I enjoyed this one! What a crazy woman and unsuspenseful story! This book started out with a good premise: Caroline finds something on the internet about her family that she doesn't know about After that, the entire books unravels with crazy behavior, useless descriptions, wild antics.

The Memory Box

I kept reading only to find out why Caroline becomes so unhinged and becomes more so throughout the book. But the ending wasn't worth the effort of reading this book. It's as crazy as Ca What a crazy woman and unsuspenseful story! It's as crazy as Caroline. Talk about Gone Girl, talk about The Good Girl, talk about The Girl on the Train and then do yourself a favor and read The Memory Box and include it with these other titles when folks ask what to read. I'm not going to reiterate the plot of this book or the characters but suffice it to say this is one terrific title. This book is a roller coaster ride from beginning to end and you as the reader never know what to expect.

Wow - it really left me with the chills. Consider that I began this book last night at 9 and finally went to sleep at 4: Now, I can't wait to read more books by this really good author. Can someone please tell me why this got 4 or 5 stars?

Unfortunately it reminded me of kids who just cannot get of the net for 5 minutes its just my oppinion but was a very mundane read. Jun 10, Selena rated it liked it. What a crazy, all-over-the-place book. The book actually makes you feel like you are crazy yourself. I was getting frustrated and was going to stop reading it a couple of times but I kept getting drawn back into the craziness and drama. My review for this book is leaning closer to a 2. It is a story of a woman named Caroline who is a homemaker and a mother of two. She lives in suburbia and the women in the area are snobby and gossips.

Caroline decides to google her name one day and what she found out leads her down the rabbit hole and you get to go down it with her. This is a psychological thriller with a big surprise at the end. Very crazy and twisted book. Sep 13, i. The first word that comes to my mind after reading this book in one day and a half is unputdownable!. Even if I did lots of other things during that day and a half , I devoted all my free time to reading this captivating novel. I don't really know how to describe Caroline, the main character, without giving the plot away.

She made me feel worried, then sorry, later upset and finally terrified. She seemed to be a regular suburbian mother of two lovely girls and an apple pie contest winner ,who hap The first word that comes to my mind after reading this book in one day and a half is unputdownable!. She seemed to be a regular suburbian mother of two lovely girls and an apple pie contest winner ,who happened to google herself one day. I also felt hungry, like having a Sno Ball or two. The Memory box is a story about love, obsession, hatred and crime.

A novel about those sometimes horrible things that are hidden behind the white picket fences of suburbian neighbourhoods. Unbelievably, this is Eva Lesko's first novel,who is also a suburbian mother of two children. I recommend this book to mystery lovers who have free time, because once you start reading it you will want to find out more, and the more you know, the more eager you will be to know it all.

Unfortunately, once you know it all, you won't be able to unknow it. This book is difficult to rate.

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The concept is brilliant, though the execution leaves a bit to be desired. It's frenetic and confusing, but it's no Mind of Winter. A touch too drawn out and unrealistic, this was still compelling and different I just felt that it could've been amazing with a few tweaks. View all 3 comments. I really wanted to like this book.

But something about it really frustrated me - I guess I'm not a huge fan of the author's writing style. There were pages and pages full of more descriptive passages than a freshman lit course, but not very much meat. I told my husband that it seemed like the author consistently described every aspect of, say, a window: Maybe this is some literary trick I'm not familiar with, maybe it was intentional by the author to "build up mystery" or something, but I just found it annoying-it's not how we see or discover things in real life, and it just made the book drone on and on.

I found myself skimming whole paragraphs to get to some substance very often. I was honestly just glad to be done with it. View all 7 comments. You know what I really don't like? I think they are disgusting, though I will admit that it's fun to peel off the marshmallow dome and move it around the table making it eat things like it's an amoeba. Anyway, you might be wondering why I chose to bash SnoBalls. It's because Caroline, our mentally unstable protagonist, has a secret addiction to these things, letting herself have one bite at a time and then squirreling the rest away in order to take another bi So It's because Caroline, our mentally unstable protagonist, has a secret addiction to these things, letting herself have one bite at a time and then squirreling the rest away in order to take another bite when she next needs it.

She's got 'em in the car, hidden in the backs of cupboards, and who knows where else. It's her coping mechanism leftover from a time when she was a fat child and was shamed by her mother. Now she's a healthy eater who counts calories and doesn't eat red meat I felt about this story the same way I feel about those gross little Hostess cakes: Everything else was tedious and ridiculous. But it wasn't being dumped into the mind of a person who is experiencing a mental breakdown for unknown reasons, as jarring as that is, that got to me.

I mean, as soon as the story started, I felt like I was reading something like The Bookseller with all those little hints that the main character's reality is not the same as the reader's. I understand that the Gone Girl on the Train books are all like that, too. I haven't read them so I can't confirm but, regardless, it's one of those things where you know something's off kilter from the start and you've got to try to piece together what's true and what's a misperception on the protagonist's part, not to mention which bits are downright lies for whatever reason.

The point here is that I wasn't in weird territory; I understood that I was going to have to do some brain work to untangle this mess. And it did become more and more clear as pieces were thrown at my face; I was getting the picture, though maybe not the motivation, despite all the ridiculous obstacles being placed in the way. I was making progress toward what would surely be a nice reward for putting myself through this over-the-top circus of silliness. But then there's Part II. For readers of this type of genre, this was undoubtedly nice and twisty and certainly did a great job itching a specific scratch.

For me, though, this was pretty shitty. I took the time to deal with the premise of Caroline finding out something she didn't know about herself after Googling her maiden name because her married name only brought up a few hits and all the other moms were doing it so she wanted to feel special, too, and then a rabbit hole of nonsensical things followed. I trudged through all of that because I thought there'd be a payoff in the end.

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I also thought maybe this was a portrayal of what it's like to have a mental break from reality, maybe we're getting a look into the mind of a woman who had stopped taking her meds and now we know why that's such a dangerous thing to do. Only, if that was the case, it was done poorly because if the reader hasn't experienced these types of mood swings, low energy, manic thoughts, anxiety, and paranoia, this character will not make the reader any more empathetic to those who deal with mood disorders, anxiety, depression, and the like on a regular basis.

So I was pretty sour while listening to Caroline's bizarre trials and tribulations, many of which would not have been out of place in something like Bridget Jones's Diary. I wasn't comfortable with the farce it seemed to make of a serious subject. And then there was the big reveal at the end and I was downright angry.

Caroline had to brag about her amazing problem solving skills but couldn't do it in a way that would endanger her freedom or family so she wrote a novel about it and made up the part about memory loss to give her book a little extra zazz. So everything that in-the-novel Caroline goes through, everything that looks like mania, like anxiety, like paranoia, like depression, everything that thousands of people struggle with on a daily basis, is really window dressing to make author Caroline's confession more interesting?

Mood disorders, mental illness, these things are not entertainment. It's already hard enough to get people who don't struggle with wiggly mental health to take mood disorders, personality disorders, behavioral disorders, et al, seriously. This book isn't helping.

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Probably the worst book I've ever read. I'm actually angry that this was ever published, and even angrier with myself for finishing it. Many people do at one time or another, but what if what is found there is disturbing? This is the premise behind The Memory Box, a roller coaster of a psychological thriller. As Caroline finds her perfect life with Andy, Lilly, and Tessa built on lies and secrets if the information she finds on her Google search is any indication , she starts to melt down.

This debut novel is a mesmerizing story Oct 08, Bill rated it really liked it. My secret was buried for years. In the bowels of a brain and in a box. Six years ago she moved to Fairhaven with her husband Andrew, six years since the tragic lo 4. Six years ago she moved to Fairhaven with her husband Andrew, six years since the tragic losses she experienced in her PA hometown. Masking the secrets in her new role as supermommy in the suburbs nearly killed her. Caroline held a certain degree of respect for terrorists.

Not the killing of innocents. No, no she hated the word kill. Far too many negative connotations. But she loved retaliation and revenge. It was thrilling to tell Dr. But she needed more. What could be better than to share her darkness with the world in plain sight? I devoured this book. The final reveal was stunning but the twist buried within the reveal was even better. Perhaps Caroline was not so clever after all. My only complaint is I yearned to learn so much more about Andrew and his family. This book was all about Caroline Thompson but then again, should I expect anything less from a psychotic narcissist?

You be the judge for yourself. I really liked the idea of the story and what I thought the story was going to be based on the book's synopsis. I also get why people are saying that this is an "unputdownable" read - it's a train wreck that you can't look away from so you feel the compulsion to keep reading it. So I get why people are losing their minds over this book, and I thought it was OK in that aspect. Especially if it is going to get people to OK. Especially if it is going to get people to read, I am all for any book that will encourage reading.

I didn't really like this book. I didn't like the voice. I didn't like Caroline as a main character not even as a unreliable narrator, and I love an unreliable narrator. I didn't like the formatting of the book I wanted to start crossing out the random italicized words as I was reading I actually felt the compulsion to edit the book as I read it as well.

The dialog was disingenuous and unrealistic and redundant. After that point, I want the author to give me room to experience the world they are so carefully building. I don't want to be told every last detail about every last thing that is going on. I think what makes books so great is when an author is able to tell the story while at the same time leaving room for you to make the story your own this is why books are always better than their movie counterparts. And in this case I had no room to connect with this story in my own way. I had no room to use my imagination to make this story my own because everything and anything was painstakingly described to me in detail.

And that is where the book lost me as a reader. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I couldn't put this book down. It had to get better The premise of this book was a great idea but the book failed overall.

Be careful what you Google about yourself Caroline lied about everything to write a book. That's not googling yourself. You finished the book to find out nothing you just read was true It was confusing to follow. Some areas in the book were not explained. Caroline was psychotic and she wanted the world to know it without them knowing it was I couldn't put this book down. Caroline was psychotic and she wanted the world to know it without them knowing it was true.

She killed her sister so she could take her daughter.

And blame her death on her ex-boyfriend, who was the father of the child. She found her husband at his wife's funeral and lied that she knew her. She wanted the perfect life. But it wasn't controlled. Endgame and " The Umbrella Academy. The oppressively vapid life of Morgan is forever transformed when a mystical blue pyramid - that inexplicably produces doorknobs - appears in his apartment.

What follows is a tale of greed Best friends Anna and Beth take a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish a bond broken by years of competition and jealousy. Tensions mount, however, leading to an unexpected yet A satirical look at social media addiction. Jen finds that quitting Instagram and the grip it has on her isn't as easy as it seems. When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

The Memory Box: A Book About Grief

A hospital psychiatrist's own sanity is pushed to the edge when a frightened amnesiac patient insists that he has died and brought something terrible back from the other side. For Charles, video-games are a much needed escape from reality. But when virtual vixen Sophia leads him on a mysterious quest through the lovelorn lives of six New Yorkers, they will all After rudderless 26 year old Ellie learns that her estranged, alcoholic father has died, her world is disrupted and she begins a journey that takes her to small-town Texas, where she finds A young mother working in a memory re-creation facility is pushed by a client to break the rules.

If surprise endings are your thing, I encourage you to give this book a try! I'm so glad to hear that you enjoyed the book too! Haha yes, I remember having those thoughts as well and I very much agree that if surprise endings are you're thing, you will really like The Memory Box. I really liked this book. I wasn't too sure I would when I started it but it does grab you after several chapters. The main character seemed like she was on speed or manic. I laughed out loud many times reading it.

The monkey bruise on her cheek was hysterical. I honestly did not see the ending coming with this one.

I was in complete shock. When I found out the truth of the situation and then read her husband's reaction I wanted to slap him for being so stupid.

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