Jodi Picoult
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Change of Heart
Nineteen Minutes
Tenth Circle
Vanishing Acts
My Sisters keeper
Perfect Match
Salem Falls
The Pact
Harvesting the Heart
Right now I am reading Picture Perfect and have Mercy on hold at the Library.
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I've also read "Plain Truth", "The Tenth Circle", and I am now reading, "Vanishing Acts", which is turning out to be perhaps my second favorite after "My Sister's Keeper".
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Things break all the time.
Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
Promises break.
Hearts break.
Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health.
Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte should have known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life?
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i wasn't that impressed with change of heart, and i wasn't that impressed with handle with care either. i mean i liked handle with care better than change of heart, but both just didn't do it for me. they didn't carry the weight of some of the other books shes written. unlike the pact, plain truth, or my sister's keeper, i felt like this book dealt less with the moral issue of whether or not the child should be born, and more about the daily disasters of having a child suffering from OI and the complications it has on family life. some of the things that progressed to happen in this book made absolutely no sense, and it seemed as though picoult was throwing it in for the sake of throwing it in. the eldest child in this book, for example, has every single mental disease known to teenagers. she's depressed, she's cutting, she has an eating disorder, and while it's common for all of those things to come hand in hand, the development of how this happens is extremely unclear. one day she's a pissy angsty teenager, the next day her sorrow knows no depths. there was no inbetween area, no explanation.
overall, i think that she really could have gone more indepth with this. refocused the concentration on the issue of whether or not willow should have been born (something i think she does in the very last chapter, maybe the last 15 pages) but neglects for the enterity of the novel.
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I have to say, I did enjoy My Sisters Keeper, however. It is the only one I feel like had any originality to it. And, unfortunately, it was also the first one by Picoult I read, and set some pretty high standards.
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Oh and I'm new to this forum so I'm excited to look around and add a gazillion books to my TBR list
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I agree with you regarding the "dumbed down, chick-lit" description. I enjoyed reading a few of Jodi Picoult's books, but I do think she is overrated as a writer. She does choose thought-provoking subject matter for many of her novels, but I think she is not a great writer.Mecassel0 wrote:I am on the fence about Jodi Picoult. I have read My Sisters Keeper and Change of Heart. My Sisters Keeper I really enjoyed. However, Change of Heart irritated me. It was way too similar to The Green Mile. It came off like it was supposed to be a dumbed down, chick-lit version of Stephen Kings novel. I just began reading Sing You Home by Picoult. Have any of you guys read it yet? I've been searching for any discussions or reviews on it, and can't find any. However, that may be because I'm new to this site and haven't quite got the hang of it yet.
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The two novels I read by her are: House Rules and The Storyteller.