My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper
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published
February 1st 2005 (first published 2004) by Washington Square Press

binding
Paperback, 423 pages

setting
The United States

isbn
0743454537    (isbn13: 9780743454537)

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Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, ...more




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Lindsay
08/14/07
Lindsay rated it: 1 of 5 stars

bookshelves: misc
recommends it for: Jodi Picoult fans, chick lit fans
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Lisa
05/28/07
Lisa rated it: 2 of 5 stars

Read in May, 2007
As I said before: I'm still reading this book but I'm not sure why. My mom lent me the book and she loved it, everyone tells me they loved it and I'm sort of hating it while I read. I just want to finish it and move on. Maybe I'll change my tune when it's over.

Well... I hate it less, but I'm still not in love with it. I think I know the problem, though. It's Jodi Picoult. My mom loves her, my sister loves her, everyone I know loves her and I can't stand her. She just writes in...more
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Lobeck
06/22/07
Lobeck rated it: 1 of 5 stars (review of isbn 0743454529)

Read in May, 2007
recommends it for: people who like trash pop fiction
this book is a shameless and unskillful manipulation of human emotions. i felt dirty when i was done with it. the story is on par with cheap natural disaster movies like deep impact that are formulated to tug at your heartstrings in very predictable ways. the author painfully over uses the dramatic blackout technique where she writes a line that's trying too hard to be clever or profound and then fades to black - aka, leaves extra space before the next paragraph or ends a chapter - sometimes ...more
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Nola
03/22/08
Nola rated it: 4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: fiction---drama
Read in April, 2008
recommends it for: parents, christians,
I hate novels where parenting is questioned, simply because I too often find myself thinking, “Well I would never do THAT.” I then have to do the whole knock-on-wood routine and hope that I didn’t just invite divine retribution for being too judgmental. So it was with Jodi Picoult’s novel My Sister’s Keeper. After reading the summary of the novel, I knew that I would never make the choices that the parents shown did. After reading the novel, I found myself questioning what I might rea...more
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Sammy
05/29/07
Sammy rated it: 5 of 5 stars

bookshelves: the-best
Read in January, 2005
This book was stunning. In writing, in style, in plot, in character! It truly is one of those books that you really can't stop reading. Especially for me, because in a way it took me back to my Lurlene McDaniel days. Did anyone ever read her? She was always writing books about different teenagers and young children with terminal illnesses. I was addicted to those books. So it was no surprise when the young reader in me sort of jumped up when I saw a friend of mine reading this book and she descr...more
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Sharon
09/17/07
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bookshelves: sofarin2007
Read in January, 2007
recommends it for: no one, really
it would be impossible for me to overstate how much i hated this book. I hated, hated, hated this book. I guessed the end 5 pages into it, but read it through anyway (why?)(probably because everyone else in nursing school was reading it and wanted to tell me how good it was. Never trust nurses). Interesting for the medical information, and if it convinced one person to become an organ donor it served its purpose in the world, but man, was it hard to read. It was trite and simplistic and written ...more
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Lynn
02/04/09
Lynn rated it: 2 of 5 stars

Read in February, 2009
**If you're planning on reading this book, don't read my review. I give away the horribly disappointing ending. On second thought, don't read this book, read my review.**

I know several people who have read this book, so I decided to give it a go. I was immediately intrigued by the subject of the book. The Fitzgerald family has one daughter, Kate, dying of kidney failure. The kidney failure is a result of her weary body's 14 year battle with a rare form of leukemia. Their other...more
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Bex
08/01/07
Bex rated it: 1 of 5 stars

Read in August, 2007
recommends it for: No one.
Ugh- I've read some of these reviews and people keep saying great story- the end sucked... 4 stars! Okay- the ending sucking is a bit of an understatement. It was probably the worst ending to anything I've ever read or seen in my whole life- and I've watched UltraViolet and Sunshine and read some pretty terrible books.

Picoult rambles- and rambles. She takes a family, smacks them with the most typical "dysfunctional family" stereotypes and then add a topic that *should* be i...more
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Peregrinn
12/26/08
Peregrinn rated it: 1 of 5 stars

bookshelves: by-women, novels
Read in November, 2008
recommends it for: cheesy drama lovers
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Rita
11/03/08
Rita rated it: 1 of 5 stars

bookshelves: hated, most-recent
Read in November, 2008
Spoiler Alert. This review contains spoilers.

I hated this book so much. I only kept reading it because I had to find out why Campbell, the lawyer, had a service dog, since he kept that such a secret.

I hated the clichés (Julia chose just that moment to crash through the door… Anna chose that precise moment to speak up… Rita chose this moment to gag on bad writing…).

I hated the overwrought melodrama. Everything was just so saturated with heavy-hande...more
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April
04/11/08
April rated it: 1 of 5 stars

Read in April, 2008
recommended to April by: A book club I have chosen not to join
recommends it for: Overly emotional chick-lit addicts to whom meaning must be spoonfed
I read this for a book club I was going to join before I found a better one that meets at the library across the street. The subject and basic premise were interesting enough to keep me reading, but my god the writing was awful. AWFUL. Everytime one character asked another a question, the answer was some corny, overly-symbolic story from the past. The whole book was one clichéd analogy after another...she even put analogies WITHIN analogies. For example:

"About five years ago a ...more
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Mitabird
01/11/09
Mitabird rated it: 4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: fiction
Read in January, 2009
My Sister's Keeper was one of the most heart wrenching stories I've ever read. Anna's sister, Kate, is dying of a rare form of leukemia. She was conceived as a genetic match to help save her sister's life. It was supposed to be a one-time deal, but over the course of her 13 years, Anna has donated multiple times. Her sister is in need of a kidney and Anna's decided she's had enough of being told how to use her body. She decides to sue her parents for medical emancipation and refuses to give up h...more
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Marissa Noe
03/21/08
Marissa Noe rated it: 5 of 5 stars

Read in March, 2008
recommends it for: Anyone unless you absolutely hate sad stories
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Amy
06/18/08
Amy rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in July, 2008
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Leila
01/04/08
Leila rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in December, 2007
It’s impossible to talk about this book without discussing the ending but I promise to give warning before I do so it won't be spoiled for those who haven't read the book yet.

I had two main concerns going into this book. The first was that it would be nothing more than a political commentary on stem cell and embryo research. While it does touch on these issues, the book does not take a stand or attempt to pontificate a political stance to the reader. While I am sure the author ha...more
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Kathryn
07/18/07
Kathryn rated it: 2 of 5 stars

Read in August, 2007
This book was an extremely difficult read for me. I had to force myself to continue reading, as I didn’t want to feel as though I had wasted $14.00 by not completing it. It took about a month for me to finish the book and that is an unusual amount of time for me as I generally finish books in less than two weeks. I actually found myself scanning the pages and only reading the dialogue so I could move along towards the end.

What I really didn’t care for was that the story moved ...more
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Madeline
07/07/07
Madeline rated it: 4 of 5 stars

The conflict alone is what makes this book fascinating - the story focuses on two sisters, Anna and Kate. The older sister, Kate, was diagnosed with leukemia when she was four. Knowing that their daughter would need blood donations, bone marrow, and possibly organ donations in the future, Kate's parents had another child whose sole purpose would be to provide a blood match for Kate. Thirteen years later, Anna gets tired of spending almost all her time in hospitals, giving bone marrow and blood t...more
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Annalisa
05/11/09
Annalisa rated it: 2 of 5 stars

bookshelves: chick-lit, psychology
Read in May, 2009
If you haven't read the book it's about a girl (Kate) with leukemia whose parents had a second genetically matched child (Anna) to help with blood and bone marrow to save their first daughter. As the girls grow up, more and more is required of Anna until she's had enough of being nothing but an organ donor.

There are a lot of interesting points in the book, like what do you do when you have to pick one child over another, how do you balance your time and love between children especia...more
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Kate
04/22/08
Kate rated it: 2 of 5 stars

bookshelves: 01-regular-fiction
Read in April, 2008
*reviewer note: I discuss in some detail my issues with this novel, although I do not give away any relevant events that transpire in the novel.*

Anna was born to save her sister. She was created as a perfect genetic match in order to become a perfect donor match for her sister, Kate, who has been battling leukemia since nearly infancy. Anna is now 13, and after several proceedures and operations for donation to her sister and a kidney donation for her sister now on the horizon, she...more
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Melanie
12/29/08
Melanie rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in April, 2009
recommended to Melanie by: Kjersti
I am torn as I write the review for this book. I am amazed at how masterfully Picoult is able to tell a story from viewpoints of half a dozen people, and really pull it off. There is no stereotypical heroine/villain in this book. As I read each chapter from a different character's viewpoint, I developed compassion for each one in an amazing way. I downright bawled my eyes out at the end and felt I had truly gained something from the read. I considered it a great shame to have to sift throug...more
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