Though this has the qualities I associate with fiction, it felt a lot like being forced to listen to a room full of college kids who just read Nietzsche for the first time and come home to perform that knowledge for hours *at* me - without asking 1) if I already know this, 2) if I care to listen to ...
GREAT SMALL THINGS by Jodi Piccoult I haven’t read any Piccoult for a while (a little tired of the “disease of the month” rut she seemed to be in), so I had avoided this book also. But I kept hearing really good things about it. People who didn’t read Piccoult LOVED it. So, I gave it a shot. All tho...
This is quite a book. An important read for those of us who are trying to understand issues or racism, especially the advantages our white skin have bestowed upon us (unless, of course, we're not white). The book jumps back and forth. Between the points of view of Ruth Jefferson, a nurse who works i...
Ruth Jefferson has been a neonatal nurse for over 20 years, at a small hospital in New Haven, CT. She is a great nurse who loves her job. During a routine newborn check, she is startled when the baby boy's father, Turk Bauer, insists on speaking with Ruth's supervisor, who subsequently informs her...
I often struggle to figure out my role as an ally, to figure out if I’m supposed to be doing something or if I’m not doing something I should. I’ll be the first to admit that I am ignorant about a lot of things… unfortunately social justice isn’t something that’s taught in school. It’s left up to yo...
I only made it through 20% through. No real page numbers on the electronic version from Netgalley. I loved reading Jodi Picoult before as totally engrossing, new to me topics that are easy to read and connect with the characters. I haven’t read one in so long and was so excited that I just automatic...
Not many books manage to do what this book has, make me think about the world differently. Before this book I thought about racism, but because I live in Ireland which is only beginning to become more diverse, it wasn’t as prevalent in my mind as it should have been. This book changed that. Here’s...
This is a really good story about the subject of race. It does a great job of letting the reader feel everyone's point of view, and it gives so much food for thought. I was able to have empathy for all the characters even when I didn't agree on certain points. It brought things to the forefront t...
Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult, author, Cassandra Campbell, Audra McDonald, Ari Fliakos, NarratorsJodi Picoult has written a well researched and really difficult exposé on race relations and just what those two words really mean, in this, her latest book. She believes that there will be those on a...
Small Great Things was a powerful, gripping story of racial injustice told from three very different points of view: the nurse accused, the public defender, and the white supremacist father. And let me just that it was an eye-opening experience that will stick with me for a long time. ‘People must ...
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