Small Great Things in Around the World in 80 Books

Dec 14, 2016 Sarah rated it liked it

Shelves: book-club, audio, bipoc

Jodi Picoult's books and I are in a relationship, and it's complicated.

The first few books of hers I read (The Pact, Perfect Match, and My Sister's Keeper), I hated. I vowed never to waste time reading another book by her again. But then my book club chose Nineteen Minutes, and I liked it a lot. Years later, that same book club chose Leaving Time, and I loved it. This month, book club read Small Great Things. For 400 pages, I thought this was going to be another book I liked. I was really drawn ...more

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Feb 05, 2019 Colleen Chi-Girl rated it it was amazing

Shelves: women-centered, historical-fiction, anti-racist, 2019, connecticut-massachusetts

What an important, poignant, and well written book. The characters are so well developed and you love some of them and hate the rest of them. This story will stay with me a very long time. Bravo Jodi Picoult!

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Oct 15, 2024 Pam rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2024-books-read, fiction, audio-book, connecticut

Loved this book, need to get more up to date with my Jodi Picoult reading!

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Jan 11, 2018 Ashley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: jodi-picoult-books, fiction, 2018-books

Jodi is very brave for writing a story based on a topic that can be very sensitive and heated. It does open everyone eyes to racism and how whether we realize it or not everyone is racist in one way or another . This has got to be one of her best novels yet. And I loved the ending of it :-) .

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