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Yay - thankee Susanna, that's a surpise. A lovely surprise. But the favorite packet contained a handcrafted mohair cowl - haven't taken it off since I ripped into the box.:O)
I am rating this a 3, but I have to say that I was so annoyed with the ending that I almost wanted to rate this a 1. I usually stay away from anything labeled as "chick lit" and unfortunately, much of this book was exactly what I automatically mentally think about when I hear the words "chick lit". ...
Review: I have to say, Nineteen Minutes was a book that had great potential and was ruined by poor execution and scene choice. One of the too-many main characters, Josie Cormier, is a character that the reader doesn’t like at all. The first time the story springs to her point of view, you see she’s ...
Nineteen Minutes is a great read from start to finish. The story about a high school shooting and the people involved was interesting and I liked the way it was told through a series of flashbacks. I half saw the twist coming towards the end but it didn't spoil the book for me. It was the second boo...
This was my first Jodi Picoult book, believe it or not. I wasn't expecting to really love it because the movie My Sister's Keeper was a bore to me (I know I know, it's very sad, just not my kind of movie I guess). But, I really enjoyed this book and could hardly put it down.It's about a school shoo...
My first Picoult book!
Starting reading this book on the ferry en route to Victoria for a girls' weekend. Actually had to put the book away at one point and just listen to music because I was crying so hard that people were staring. I hope that I can capture Picoult's sense of honesty about bullying in my own writing.
I have read Jodi Picoult's books before but I still can't get over how intensely they affect me. She writes about such controversial topics and she writes them well. This story was about bullying that led to a terrible school shooting. It's a terrible, tragic story but it's not at all simple. As alw...
"A single incident of bullying in childhood can be as traumatic to a person, over time, as a single incident of sexual abuse...The common denominator is being humiliated." "If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?"Jodi Picoult always goes a little ove...
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