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Post by tara595 on Oct 26, 2017 15:17:28 GMT
19 Minutes is also my favorite Picoult book. I loved The Storyteller also but wasn't a fan of Leaving Time. I also really liked Change of Heart. The 4 books I found at Goodwill were "Change of Heart", "Vanishing Acts", "19 Minutes" and "The Tenth Circle". I think my favorite Jodi Piccoult books are "The Pact" and "the Plain Truth" Probably because those were the first two that I read by her. Of course, "My Sister's Keeper", is up there too along with "Change of Heart" and 'Storyteller"
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Post by imsirius on Oct 26, 2017 15:23:42 GMT
19 Minutes is also my favorite Picoult book. I loved The Storyteller also but wasn't a fan of Leaving Time. I also really liked Change of Heart. The 4 books I found at Goodwill were "Change of Heart", "Vanishing Acts", "19 Minutes" and "The Tenth Circle". Good ones, but to be honest, some of her early works, the endings were shitty. She has has improved a lot since then.
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Post by edie3 on Oct 26, 2017 23:57:22 GMT
mnmloveli I finished the book. Maybe a little anticlimactic, but I liked it. Did not end the way I expected it to. Off to see his other books. I think I have read something by him, just cant remember what!
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Post by birukitty on Oct 27, 2017 0:12:10 GMT
This week I read Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult. This is a relatively new author to me, and I don't know why it took me so long to find her, because she is amazing. Normally my favorite genre is historical fiction, but sometimes I've got to take a break from that and Jodi Picoult fits the bill perfectly. While she isn't the tremendous writer that Eowyn Ivey is author of "To the Bright Edge of the World", she is a masterful storyteller. The first book I read from Jodi Picoult was "Small Great Things" which I thought was wonderful. "Leaving Time" is the story of a 13 year old girl Jenna who is trying to find out what happened to her mother who disappeared when she was 3 years old from the elephant sanctuary where both her parents worked. Her father is no help because he's been catatonic in a psychiatric facility since the day of her mother's disappearance and her grandmother who Jenna lives with isn't talking. Alice (her mother) was a scientist who studied elephants in Botswana, Africa before meeting her father and moving with him to his elephant sanctuary in New England. If you love elephants like I do you'll really like the parts of the book that go into the elephant research. They are very touching. Jenna finds out about a well known psychic in town who used to be world famous and together with a former detective they set out to help her see if they can track down her mother. Jodi Picoult is especially great when it comes to character development and I especially loved the character of Serenity, the psychic. I gave the book 4 out of 5 stars on Goodreads. Next I read The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult but I am in the last few pages and would rather review this one next week when I am completely finished. I was trying to take a break from the Holocaust and darn it if this one wasn't about that subject too, but it was so interesting I couldn't put it down. Up next is The Alice Network which finally came in from being on hold forever in the library. Small Great Things is one of the best books by Picoult. Definitely check it out. "Small Great Things" was the first Jodi Picoult novel I read and the book that got me so interested of her as a writer. So far it is my favorite of hers. An amazing book.
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Post by imsirius on Oct 27, 2017 0:17:55 GMT
I finished Beartown.
Wonderfully written. I liked the choppy style. The characters were great. Hated Kevin and his father by the end.
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Post by lynnek on Oct 27, 2017 0:41:17 GMT
lynnek have you read this? Wondered what you thought. Read what?
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Post by lynnek on Oct 27, 2017 0:45:04 GMT
Oh my, I am reading The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian. It is pretty graphic but it has me hooked. Cant wait to see how it ends. Oh, I think you mean this one, right? No, I have not read The Guest Room yet. It is on my list and I even had it check out once but never got it read before I had to return it. I will be interested to see what you thought. I have only read one Chris Bohjalian book (The Double Bind) which I liked so I would like to read another one of his.
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Post by maryland on Oct 27, 2017 2:15:45 GMT
Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain Really loved this book. One of my very favorite authors Polio epidemic which I've always had an interest in since I was 6 and worried about getting it Hickory, N.C. where my dd lives Culture of the ww2 era, also an interest of mine Nurses...my people! Thanks for the recommendation! Her books are great!
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