At a time when most people look for “mindless summer reading” which usually means fluff that can be put down and picked up easily, Jodi Picoult is a breath of fresh air. […]
Book Review: Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult – Page-Turner with Faults
Book Review: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan – More Than The Birds and the Bees
Jodi Picoult is an author whose stories could have the secondary title: Ripped From Today’s Headlines. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes she genuinely hits it out of the ballpark, such […]
Book Review: Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult – The Green Mile With a Twist
Author Jodi Picoult is a resident of Hanover, NH. Author Stephen King is a resident of Bangor, ME. The two are friends and have appeared together in by-lines and at a few […]
Book Review: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult – If You Could Only Save One Child…
We’ve always heard that question. You know the one – if two of your children were drowning and you could only save one, which one would you choose? Most parents dance around […]
Book Review: Second Glance by Jodi Picoult – Re-Awakening the Horrors of the Past
On occasion, a book can leave me with the feeling of not knowing where to begin when discussing it. Sometimes it’s because I can’t verbalize my feelings for it adequately. More rarely, […]
Book Review: Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult – Who Would God Hang With?
I was introduced to Jodi Picoult after reading Nineteen Minutes, which was assigned as summer reading to the high school one summer. The good and bad side to reading so many books […]
Book Review: Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult – A Modern Take on The Crucible
There are some classic stories that one figures can never be quite adapted to our modern world. The story of the Salem Witch Trials, as told in Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, […]
Book Review: Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult – Murder in a World Most Alien to Us
We discovered the books of author Jodi Picoult in my house when one of them appeared on the school reading list for the summer. The teens and I were immediately hooked, and […]
Book Review: Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult – School Shooters are Made, Not Born
They love to tell youStay inside the linesBut something’s betterOn the other side– John Mayer, No Such Thing For the eleventh grade summer reading this year, the kids were assigned the book […]
Book Review: House Rules by Jodi Picoult – Hits Very Close to Home
As the mother of a child on the autism spectrum, I knew House Rules would be a hard book for me and I was right. Along with being a compelling story and […]
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