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Released 6 yrs ago (11/9/2005 UTC) at USPS in Postal Mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 6 yrs ago (1/4/2006 UTC) at please use CONTROLLED RELEASES country in -- By post or by hand-ie ring, trade, RABCK, meet, British Columbia Canada WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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After reading -My Sister's Keeper-, I had high hopes for this book and wasn't disappointed. It is amazing to me how the author manages to write such long novels that I read so quickly. Yet again, I simply couldn't put the book down. This author seems to favor moving around between different voices and different times, something which definitely helps to keep my interest. I also appriciate the fact the approaches sensitive/taboo subjects that I find myself pondering long after I've finished the novel. I think she fleshed the characters out well and generated sympathy for just about every one of them. ***SPOILER ALERT*** My only complaint is with the very end as I had a hard time beliving the jury's decision. Perhaps, if the author had taken us into the deliberation room and described some of the discussion, then perhaps I could have found it more believable. The ending as itis presented is a sweet, sentimental one, but I couldn't buy it. Even a hung jury would have been more believable. I suppose that is my one complaint with Picoult, she touches on some really incredibly interesting ideas, prompting great discussion, but then she seems to take the easy out, seemingly unwilling to take a stand one way or the other. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this book very much and appriciate the opportunity to read it. I'll pass it on to the next in line as soon as I get a mailing address. |
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Released 6 yrs ago (5/17/2006 UTC) at Postal Release in Willard, Ohio USA WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Journal Entry 22 by
This came in the mail to me in Oklahoma just a couple days ago. I have already started reading it and I find it sucking me in. A page turner it seems to be as I want to know more and more about the lives of the families that are in this heart breaking story.As soon as I get a little farther along in my reading I will PM the next person and get an address so that this book can be moving along once more. |
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Journal Entry 23 by
Well, I finished the book. It was a pretty good page turner so it didn't really take all that long. I am going to put my spoiler comments in white they can be read if you highlight the area that looks blank with your mouse.I am not really sure that I had any expectations from this book so I can't really say if I was disappointed or not. I found this writing style to be easier to read in that it didn't change voices so drastically as often and it was pretty clear what was a flashback and what was not. There were some discussion questions in the back of the book and I thought that I would touch on a couple of those for comments about my views on the book. 1. How do you feel the extended family environment created by the Hartes and the Golds affected their children? Did it contribute to Emily's suicide? 2. Is there such a thing as being too close to another non-blood family member? I think that these two questions can be answered together. Chris and Emily grew up as close as any brother and sister ... if not closer. And I think that greatly contributed to Emily's suicide because of her feelings that it was wrong to be with Chris sexually and her feelings of a more sibling like love. It was in her mind almost incestuous and becoming pregnant would have a tangible proof of their behavior that I don't think she was ready to face. I think that by being as close together as any two families could be and with all the time that they spent together was a little over the top and perhaps could have foreseen the conflict later between the teenagers who were expected to get together in the end. 5. Is Emily correct in believing she had no alternatives to suicide? Explain. I think that Emily had other options but that she didn't want to talk to her parents or other support people to help her see her options. She was not an open person preferring instead to keep things inside her and I think it finally destroyed her from the inside out. Perhaps if she had gotten help and healing long ago from the molestation that happened to her she would not have felt so horrified by Chris touching her. Perhaps if she had not been so against the sexual relationship with Chris then she might have not felt so trapped and alone by the pregnancy. However, since we can never truly know the things that went on in Emily's mind we may never know all her motivations and thinking as she thought out her suicide. 11. Is the punishment that is meted out to Chris just? In your opinion, is Chris guilty of murder? I found it horrible that Chris had to go to jail before being proven guilty especially with the circumstances as they were first presented of the double suicide scenario. I think that Chris's jail time did him as much harm as good and it seems like such a waste that he had to be there when the result of the trial was not guilty. I do not believe that Chris is guilty of murder however, with him knowing that Emily was suicidal and providing her with a weapon to use on herself that he should have been found guilty of some kind of negligence charge. He should have told the families what Emily had been discussing so that help could have reached her before her life was over. A question was posed to the author if she knew what would happen at the end as she wrote the book. Her response stated that she knew the book would end in a trial but that she didn't know what the verdict would be. And then this statement: "I actually think that he should have been convicted ... but I didn't write it that way because the book was so full of heartache and sorrow that I envisoned the readers sending me hate mail - the novel called for an uplifting ending, if you can call it that." Until I read this interview I was myself pleased with the verdict. I really wanted Chris to be found not guilty because I felt that the loss of Emily was punishment enough and I don't believe that he is a danger to anyone in society. I think that I was half expecting the verdict to come back guilty just to spite me and make me angry. I think that I agree with Firegirl in that the book would have ended a lot better if we would have been privy to some of the jury's deliberations. However, I do think that there was enough reasonable doubt presented about the events of the evening that the jury had no choice but to find not guilty. In fact, Chris himself really doesn't know what happened on that night ... how could anyone else know for sure? Well, I have probably rambled on long enough. I hope that others will write more comments about this really great and thought provoking book. I have made contact with dospescados and I will be mailing the book to her next week after she gets the chance to settle in after a move. |
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Journal Entry 24 by
This book was mailed out today to dospescados.
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