Jodi Picoult marathon.

where have you been? Jodi has such an incredible style for telling stories - The Pact is my all time favorite but also try the newest Nineteen Minutes - i read it as the Virginia Tech scene played out on the news - hard stuff! enjoy your new discovery and read them all!

yep that's how it is with jodi picoult. she is just so good. :) glad you found her.

Love her! She's actually one of the authors in my stack of books on my bedside table in my picture for the Perpective mini-book I did in your class in Tracy. I'll have to go back and look, but it may have even been My Sister's Keeper too. That's one of my favorites!

Don't you just love it when that happens! I haven't read in ages (have a 8 mth old beginning to walk) = no time for anything, LOL!

A friend at work just finished reading this book and I plan to pick it up and read it as soon as my huge exam in June is over (no reading for pleasure 'til then) It sounded like an amazing book and i really look forward to reading it. Glad to hear a great second opinion on it!

love to hear what other people are reading! check out shelfari.com if you really want to dive in to great books!!!!!

Iam just finishing my first JP book... Sisters Keeper... love it, I picked itup because she from NEW HAMPSHIRE... my home state! I love it I can't wait to read another. Enjoy!

We read My sister's keeper last year in book club and we've also read The tenth circle. Both very good reads.
We are actually reading The Plain Truth for May's book club.
I'll let you know how if it's as good as the others.
Christine

I will write that author down and head to the book store. What a good idea for my mother-in-law for mother's day. Bummed I missed your class on Saturday...love the everday beauty album though!

I love her books, too. My favorite so far was Plain Truth. All of the ones I've read have been page-turners. If you haven't discovered Half.com to sell your old books and buy other people's used (or new) ones, I recommend it. It's the only way I can finance my book addition :)

Hi Ali,
Her books are awesome.. I can read pretty much anything.. but 19 Minutes was a bit hard for me as a mom. So, watch out for that one.

I've read every one. Coincidentally I read Nineteen Minutes just a couple of weeks before the VA Tech tragedy. While reading it, it brought back those horible feelings of loss and sadness and grief and anger that we all feel when there's a school shooting (or any other unexplainable horror). Ms. Picoult has a way of just drawing you into her stories, all the way in, 'til you feel it all. What a wonderful writer!

an interesting picoult aside...
from wikipedia
She became a writer of DC Comics' Wonder Woman (vol. 3) series following the departure of fellow writer Allan Heinberg. Her first issue (i.e. #6) hit stands on March 28, 2007. Picoult's tenure begins a run that ties into the Amazons Attack! cross-over (written by Will Pfeifer). Picoult will write five issues of Wonder Woman, ending with issue #10.

I just finished reading that book this weekend too. It was a quick read and I loved everything but the quickly wrapped up/slightly cliched ending. I'm definitely going to be reading some of her other books soon, too.

Oh man, My Sister's Keeper was the best book she's written. I cried my eyes out. I have read The Tenth Circle and it was sadly a disappointment, but Picture Perfect was decent. Its kind of hard to top My Sister's Keeper though.

OMG...I loved that book. Bawled like a baby, I did. She has an incredible writing style and really knows how to draw her audience in.

my sisters keeper was one of the best books i ever read. i couldn't stop. it was a hard read as a mother but just so well written. I too ran out and bought 4 more books. keep us posted on which ones you like.

Loved My Sister's Keeper. My friend wouldn't tell me the ending and when I finished it, I knew why. Hard not to think it was a biography.

I have read a few JP books too. We read My Sister's Keeper for our book club. Although we all read it very quickly we were all very unhappy with how Ms. Picoult ended the book. Not the ending, per se, that was obviously tragic, but I felt her reasoning for ending it that was was faulty. We had a copy with an interview with JP in the back. Although I like her stories as a whole, I always feel like her endings are contrived. That said, I can't help but pick up her darn books every time one comes out!
--Conflicted in Texas :-)

I have read a few JP books too. We read My Sister's Keeper for our book club. Although we all read it very quickly we were all very unhappy with how Ms. Picoult ended the book. Not the ending, per se, that was obviously tragic, but I felt her reasoning for ending it that way was faulty. We had a copy with an interview with JP in the back. Although I like her stories as a whole, I always feel like her endings are contrived. That said, I can't help but pick up her darn books every time one comes out!
--Conflicted in Texas :-)