My Sister's Keeper (Turtleback School & Library) | 
I had this book on my shelf for years. It is a heartbreaking story, especially in the end. Not going to spoil it for you.
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I love it when a contemporary doesn't stick to the happily ever after! I've heard that most people loved this book up until the ending. I like it because of the ending.
This was my first go with Picoult, and I quite enjoyed her writing style. Any suggestions on what else of her I could try?
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That's #JumpStart2023 & #JanuaryPagesChallenge for me.
Thanks @Lizpixie @Clwojick for hosting the #JumpStart2023
It always helps when I start off my reading year ahead of my planned goals.
so-soYou almost had me, Jodi. Almost. After hearing glowing gushes from my girlfriends about your writing, I finally decided to give you a try. I was spellbound and emotionally taken into the tragedy of this family and Anna's right to choose what to do with her body, but the ethical questions/debates that are brought up in this novel get thrown out of the window when you have such a contrived ending. I was disappointed by that.
so-soMy Sister‘s Keeper was a winner for me, right up until the very end.
Picoult snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with that ending 🙄
It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all
Check out Kim from Book Interrupted‘s review on Manuscript Monday here: https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-my-sister-s-keeper
pickread: may 29-june 11, 2022
so many major differences between novel and film, but i loved nonetheless. the role of jesse in the book is more appreciated and adding julia as guardian ad litem is smart. i still don‘t believe the ending actually happened though; so jail in my opinion but also it was well executed and written. the whole story is very smartly written. i also love the pov switches and ending with kate‘s. i‘ll always love this story!!
so-soi seriously don‘t even know what to say about this book. most of it was frustrating bc obviously she shouldn‘t have to give her kidney if she doesn‘t want to and also like 90% of the characters were insufferable (like that mom???? horrid person imo) but the ending was simply ludicrous. i‘m shocked
pickI love Jodi Picoult‘s story writing and this was no different. This was a heartbreaking story and wrecked me 😩!
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so-soIt's a nice book, but it didn't hook me up as I imagined.
I had the feeling that the author wanted to make readers cry at each cost, but I wasn't really fond of the characters so it didn't work on me.
The topic is interesting and this is the thing that I loved more: the issue between what it's legally correct and what is morally correct.
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My reading book and my today progress 🤟🏻
I will read more after dinner and a shower 🤣
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Prompt: Maternal
I was thinking of Sara Fitzgerald. She had such drive in seeing Kate live almost to the exclusion of everything and everyone.
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Prompt: Merciful
Both sisters want to give mercy to the other, so they are not suffering in their respective ways.
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For #mourns prom I choose a book that's on my tbr: my sister's keeper.
I saw the movie and my heart cried. I think I will lose my dignity once I will read the book 😭😅
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Okay, hear me out with this. #mysisterskeeper had a great plot. Characters were okay with meager attempts at backstories. But the questioning of ethics and morality in modern science, specifically designer babies, really pulled this book.
Until the end...
Picoult majorly copped out with the whole "what will happen now question?" Which really, really ruined the whole point of the plot in a disappointing turn of events.
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pickfinished the book today with the puppy all up in my business 😅
seriously though, this book was incredible.
i ♥️ picoult. the book was SO MUCH better than the movie, i‘ll just leave it at that. #mysisterskeeper #jodipicoult
I enjoyed the movie... I hope I will love the novel too!
I tried to read 'The never list' many years ago and bailed on it, I'm gonna give it a second chance 😎
About 'The ghost bride' I have to admit that the netflix's adaptation is on my list from the very beginning, but I didn't see it yet 😅 Shame on me 🤣
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1) tagged- way too emotionally manipulative for me
2) I would love to retrace the route from Travels With Charley while reading Travels With Charley
3) both!
In all thirteen years of Anna‘s life, her parents have never given her a choice: she was born to be her sister Kate‘s bone marrow donor and she has always given Kate everything she needs...#unpredictable ending #wordsofoctober @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
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Thanks for the tag! @EadieB
1) My nephews won't be trick or treating this year. Besides that normal; nature walk, cemetery & horror movies.
2) I'm grateful that my mom has been feeling better this week. Recent nerve issues in her legs caused difficulty walking & falling. We worried that her tumor returned. Luckily, that isn't the case.
Picture from book event and tagged my favorite #JodiPicoult book. #AugustAuthors @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."
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Catching up with prompts. The ending to this book totally caught me by surprise & also wrecked me.😱😭But who knew the biggest surprise would be the how much (& why) they changed that shocking ending in the movie?! 🤬Jodi Picoult was not happy & neither was I.
Book haul! Three different stores lol, we‘ve had a busy day
Jodi Picoult tells the story of a girl who decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body in this New York Times bestseller that tackles a controversial subject with grace and explores what it means to be a good person. Sad, but oh so good
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1. Jodi Piccoult probably
2. One official but I also have started using some of the cubbies in our room as bookshelves 😂
3. None. Categorized by themes . Harry Potter with my Funko Pops . Jodi has a shelf. Business and Sales books. Fiction hardbacks. Etc
“The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.” #meteor #QuotsyDec19
pickWhile many of Picoult‘s books force me to think about the conflict at hand, I had a really hard time with this one. Thirteen year old Anna was conceived to serve as a bone marrow donor for her sick older sister. Such a sad story about a family torn apart by one child‘s illness and another child‘s decision to be able to make decisions over her own body. Sadly, there are no winners here. The ending of this one crushed me...
Did you know that Jodi Picoult can dish it out by jumping on a bandwagon to attack a graduate student for an opinion she had three years ago because it hurt Sarah Dessen‘s fee fees but can‘t take it when she‘s told her faux-pology (which she built on actual apologies by PoC authors because of course she did) is sorely lacking?
Really glad I stopped reading her novels a decade ago 😂
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@monalyisha This is a great post idea. I'm tagging some of my fellow buddy readers to see if they want to post too! @megnews @OriginalCyn620 @SaturnDoo @thereadingowlvina @CBee @CoffeeNBooks @jpellet @Hooked_on_books @Lmstraubie @LibrarianRyan
“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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