Second Glance
Registered by pinkozcat of Claremont, Western Australia Australia on 7/15/2005
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
11 journalers for this copy...
"When a plot of land is being developed in Vermont against the will of a local Native American tribe, strange things begin to happen - and Ross Wakeman, a paranormal investigator, is asked to get involved. A desperate drifter who has taken up ghost hunting in an effort to cross paths again with his fiancée,who died in a car crash eight years ago, Ross has yet to experience anything even remotely paranormal. Then he meets Lia ... As a seventy-year-old murder case is reopened, a shocking secret about a crime of passion long past is revealed."
Hmmmmmm ... !
"From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!"
This book is all about ghosts, a man who couldn't die, time twisting back onto itself, and the Vermont Eugenics survey.
This all sounds very esoteric but, like most of Jodi Picoult's books, it is hard to put down once you get into the story - and this took a bit of time for me.
The book traces the story through four generations to solve a seventy-year old mystery - the death of Cecelia Pike.
I will offer this book as a bookring at some stage in the near future.
"From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!"
This book is all about ghosts, a man who couldn't die, time twisting back onto itself, and the Vermont Eugenics survey.
This all sounds very esoteric but, like most of Jodi Picoult's books, it is hard to put down once you get into the story - and this took a bit of time for me.
The book traces the story through four generations to solve a seventy-year old mystery - the death of Cecelia Pike.
I will offer this book as a bookring at some stage in the near future.
Starting a bookring for this book today.Participants
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Journal Entry 4 by pinkozcat from Claremont, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, August 4, 2005
Posted to e-i-pi. Enjoy. :)
Thanks pinkozcat, and apologies - we've been down with the lurgi and I've been offline. Recieved last week and finished already - I really enjoyed it, different to her other offerings, but I think Picoult did a believable ghost story well.
It did all seem a bit neat in the end - everyone gets paired-off and they ride off into the sunset, but the eugenics story line was really interesting: I knew what the eugenics movement was, but didn't realise it had been so actively pursued other than in Nazi Germany.
Off to hunnyb as soon as I've got the details.
Thanks for sharing pinkozcat.
It did all seem a bit neat in the end - everyone gets paired-off and they ride off into the sunset, but the eugenics story line was really interesting: I knew what the eugenics movement was, but didn't realise it had been so actively pursued other than in Nazi Germany.
Off to hunnyb as soon as I've got the details.
Thanks for sharing pinkozcat.
Caught today - thanks for sharing this, pinkozcat. It's up next after I finish another bookring book (Orlando by Virginia Woolf - highly recommended so far :) ) And a note to e-i-pi - your nickname (with the appropriate explanation on the "from" panel on the parcel) makes my head spin!!! :)
Journal Entry 7 by hunnyb from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Update: am still reading but enjoying very muchly. Things that go bump in the night indeed! :)
An enjoyable read - prompted interesting questions about love, fate and death. Agree with e-i-pi in the sense that it's a little too "neat"... also felt uncompelled (is that a word?) to work things out for myself cos I knew that it'd all be explained nicely. This is the first Picoult I've read however and I can understand now why she's so popular. Thanks for sharing, pinkozcat (I love the little pink kitty inside the front cover!), it's now off to sally906.
Arrived yeasterday - have one more to read before this.
Soory I have taken so long - will send it on to leeny37 as soon as I have the snailmail address.
Not the best Picoult I've read - took a while to get into it - which is part of the reason I took so long
Not the best Picoult I've read - took a while to get into it - which is part of the reason I took so long
Journal Entry 11 by sally906 at In the large object mailbox at the top of the Mall in Darwin, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (10/12/2005 UTC) at In the large object mailbox at the top of the Mall in Darwin, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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Mailing to leeny37 on my way to work
Mailing to leeny37 on my way to work
WOOOO HOOOO! One of five that came today, boy is it gonna be fun! I enjoyed my first Jodi Picoult book (My Sister's Keeper) so I hope this one will be no different. I will get to it asap but please be patient with me! :)
Well, I've finally experienced the "neatness" of a Jodi Picoult book, it didn't feel that way for me with My Sister's Keeper, I thought that was a pretty complete story for me. But with this book, I know what everyone meant with how things just fit so nicely and it's happily ever after, although I didn't mind it that much. Compared with My Sister's Keeper, I didn't like this one as much. I found the beginning part quite annoying, I didn't like the constant changing of viewpoints, the characters were not established at that point, and it took me a while to remember who was who. I also didn't enjoy how the story just veered off; from the point when Ross started getting obsessed with a particular character. It just was not believable to me and kinda tainted the rest of the book for me. Although, I did enjoy learning about the different bits and pieces of the mystery and fitting them together to go, "Ohhhhhhhh...so that's what happened." Overall, still an alright book, but I've been told that she has written some better ones, so I'm definitely looking forward to those!
Journal Entry 14 by leeny37 at Australia Post in -- Mail, by hand, rings, RABCKs etc, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Monday, October 31, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (11/1/2005 UTC) at Australia Post in -- Mail, by hand, rings, RABCKs etc, Australian Capital Territory Australia
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Popped into a prepaid 3kg Australia Post satchel and ready to head to amberC, along with 3 others! WOO HOO! It's gonna be fun, hee hee. Tomorrow is a public holiday so I will be dropping this off on my way to work on Wednesday morning.
Popped into a prepaid 3kg Australia Post satchel and ready to head to amberC, along with 3 others! WOO HOO! It's gonna be fun, hee hee. Tomorrow is a public holiday so I will be dropping this off on my way to work on Wednesday morning.
one of 7!!! books waiting for me when i got home from work today. i have a few bookrings in front of it.
thankyou for the lovely bookmark leeny
thankyou for the lovely bookmark leeny
Sorry i've had this so long, between a flood of bookrings, a sick child and Christmas i haven't been able to read it as soon as i had hoped.
i found this one bit different to the other Jodi Piccoult books i've read. The first sentence grabbed my attention, then my attention faded a bit until the end of part one, when it grabbed me again.
i have come to expect the nice, neat ending from Jodi Piccoult.
it will be mailed to tantan early next week.
i found this one bit different to the other Jodi Piccoult books i've read. The first sentence grabbed my attention, then my attention faded a bit until the end of part one, when it grabbed me again.
i have come to expect the nice, neat ending from Jodi Piccoult.
it will be mailed to tantan early next week.
Received today - thanks amberC! I'll try to get to it soon.
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Edit February 27th, 2006: I've started reading this today. It hasn't grabbed me yet, but I'll keep going a bit longer.
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Edit February 27th, 2006: I've started reading this today. It hasn't grabbed me yet, but I'll keep going a bit longer.
I finished this last night, and it was another Jodi Picoult that I enjoyed although it was middle of the range compared to the others I've read. It took me awhile to get going with, I didn't feel there was much character development - I didn't really feel as though I knew anyone in the book very well. Part two of the book was most enjoyable for me. The eugenics story line was really interesting for as I knew next to nothing about it all before this book. I'm looking forward to looking into it a all a bit more thoroughly.
This will be heading off to deense as soon as I have an address.
This will be heading off to deense as soon as I have an address.
deense asked to be skipped so I'm now waiting on an address from SuJaDon.
SuJaDon also asked to be skipped so I will contact fushmush.
Posted to fushmush today.
Journal Entry 22 by fushmush from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Received today. Next on list.
I think I agree with everything that has already been said:
* I too had trouble remembering who was who at the beginning of the novel. This meant I was 100 pages in before I was really interested.
* Yes, the ending was a little too neat. Especially the Ross story line which was unbelievable (they stuck him back together?). I guess it was a book about the paranormal so I can't be too picky.
* The Eugenics story line was really interesting. Might go and research the topic on wikipedia.
Once I was hooked on this book, I couldn't put it down. It was Picoult doing what she does best. Melodrama with a cause.
Packed up and ready to send back to pinkozcat.
* I too had trouble remembering who was who at the beginning of the novel. This meant I was 100 pages in before I was really interested.
* Yes, the ending was a little too neat. Especially the Ross story line which was unbelievable (they stuck him back together?). I guess it was a book about the paranormal so I can't be too picky.
* The Eugenics story line was really interesting. Might go and research the topic on wikipedia.
Once I was hooked on this book, I couldn't put it down. It was Picoult doing what she does best. Melodrama with a cause.
Packed up and ready to send back to pinkozcat.
Journal Entry 24 by pinkozcat from Claremont, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, April 6, 2006
Arrived home safe and sound today.
Posted to another bookcrosser to "make up the weight" with some other goods.
thanks so much for this :) And for the other goods too! :)
changing status
Picked up at the Brisbane Bookcrossing meetup
I am giving this to a friend
Really liked this book got it at an RSPCA shop in Wacol Brisbane read and released 31st Jan 2023
