A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult

December 30, 2018 by Christina

Fiction — Kindle edition. Ballantine Books, 2018. 352 pgs. Library copy. A man enters the premise at a women’s health clinic in Jackson, Mississippi and opens fire killing both the clinic’s owner and a nurse and wounding a doctor and a woman accompanying a minor. When the hostage negotiator, Hugh McElroy, arrives on scene, he learns the injured woman is his sister and the minor is his teenage daughter. Assuming his daughter, Wren, has an appointment at the clinic for […]

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The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

September 23, 2013 by Christina

Fiction — print. Atria, 2013. 460 pgs. Library copy. No longer do I eagerly await Picoult’s newest release; no longer do add myself to the wait list at the library as soon as the listing is poster. Her last two novels were mediocre at best, and I’ve cracked the formula for her novels so that the endings no longer surprise me. However, a friend asked me to read this novel since I’ve taken a handful of courses on the Holocaust […]

Categories: 2013 Reads, Chunkster, Fiction, Genocide, Holocaust, New England, North America, United States • Tags: Jodi Picoult

Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult

August 17, 2012 by Christina

Fiction — print. Atria, 2012. 421 pgs. Library copy. I’m almost forgot Picoult released a new book this year until my mom spotted Lone Wolf on the new releases shelf of the library and asked me if I wanted to take it home with me. This book — her nineteenth and the sixteenth I’ve reviewed here on the blog — introduces readers to twenty-four year old Edward Warren who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. […]

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The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult

August 3, 2012 by Christina

Fiction — print. Washington Square Press, 2006. 416 pgs. Purchased. Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She’s also the light of her father, Daniel’s life — a straight-A student; a pretty, popular freshman in high school; a girl who’s always seen her father as a hero. That is, until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family — and herself — seems to be […]

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House Rules by Jodi Picoult

April 15, 2011 by Christina

Fiction — print. Atria Books, 2010. 572 pgs. Library. This is the final book I read during Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-a-Thon and despite it’s length, it was the perfect book for the wee hours of a read-a-thon. Characters that pull you in and a murder mystery to solve. Picoult’s 2010 novel follows Jacob Hunt, a teen with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, though he is brilliant in many ways. He has […]

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Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult

March 23, 2011 by Christina

Fiction — eBook. Simon & Schuster. eBook. 480 pgs. Purchased. The last two novels by Picoult I’ve read did not meet my expectations so I was leery about reading — let alone buying — her latest novel. Some how I wound up on her personal website reading about the research behind this particular novel. Picoult developed the idea for this novel after her eldest son came out to her and her husband and, unlike her other books, the way Picoult […]

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Second Glance by Jodi Picoult

March 17, 2010 by Christina

Fiction — print. Washington Square, 2004. 448 pgs. Purchased. I started Picoult’s tenth novel thinking it was one that I had never read before, and it wasn’t until I got about thirty or so pages in that I realized the storyline was all too familiar. A bad sign not only because it meant I didn’t like enough the first time I read it, but it means it wasn’t impressionable enough to leave it’s mark. And for being a novel by […]

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Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult

May 2, 2009 by Christina

I’m not very happy with Handle With Care because, you see, I’ve read this book before. Oh, I didn’t receive an advance review copy or illegal download it off the internet; I read this book, this story in an airport back in 2004. That book was inventive, not like anything I had ever read, and put me on my quest to read more of Picoult’s books, while this book made me angry, made me thankful I hadn’t purchased it. The […]

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Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult

March 22, 2009 by Christina

Delia Hopkins has lead a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can’t recall until a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret about herself that changes the world as she knows it — and threatens to jeopardize […]

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Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult

February 12, 2009 by Christina

Once a teacher at a girls’ prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student’s crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets – and they maliciously target Jack with a shattering allegation. Now, at the center […]

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Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

February 3, 2009 by Christina

The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn’s mother, took the child’s life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide – and for the first time her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very […]

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Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult

January 3, 2009 by Christina

Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her when she was five. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago, she dreams of art school, marries an ambitious doctor – and soon becomes a mother herself. Overwhelmed by the demands of having a family, Paige cannot forget her mother’s absences and the shameful memories of her own past, which make her doubt both her ability to give and her sense of self-worth. Harvesting the Heart, […]

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