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Dear God, never let me be put in the situation this family was! Only Picoult could cover the topic of medical emancipation and stem sickle research like this. There where places in this book I smiled, places where I groaned, places where I hated the mother and places where I bawled my eyes out. I couldn't have put this book down if I tried. Thank goodness today was a lazy Sunday!
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Picoult is a master at taking complicated, controversial issues and looking at all sides from the human standpoint. And, as she usually does, she shows us that these issues are rarely black and white, right or wrong in the wake of their effects. I was warned that this book had a sad ending. I now know that was an understatement.
May 31, 2008
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if you seen the movie, I say read the book. it's the same but not as much as you think it is.
I knew of this book for a while ow, but i didn't know what's it was all about, but of course, I ended up letting it piled up in my TBRs for the longest time. Until the movie came....
I have a soft spot in anything that's being regard as a "spare part child". It has become an itch, or a peeve if you may, an issue this book has managed to portray.
I found myself trying to read it through whenever I could. Th ...more
I knew of this book for a while ow, but i didn't know what's it was all about, but of course, I ended up letting it piled up in my TBRs for the longest time. Until the movie came....
I have a soft spot in anything that's being regard as a "spare part child". It has become an itch, or a peeve if you may, an issue this book has managed to portray.
I found myself trying to read it through whenever I could. Th ...more
Cried so much during this book my husband threatened to take it from me. The story of one family's struggle to cure their daughter's lukemia by having another child to serve as a bone marrow donor. Anna eventually tires of the procedures and the restrictions her parents put on her and hires a lawyer so she can become emancipated. Heartbreakingly sad.
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This was a great book. I really had no clue that it would end the way it did. I really liked the relationships that developed during this book. I like that it was told by different people's view chapter by chapter instead of going back and forth like she usually does. All around a great book.
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This one certainly made me cry. Couldn't put it down though. What an absolutely amazing story. I definitely recommend it. It's an easy read with such intense and tragic circumstances..
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the story went off to a brilliant start. i like the way picoult moves between the characters but the ending was a bit of a let-down. it was almost like an easy way out of the story.
after i read this book, i try to remember to hug my sister more and tell her that i love her even when i just want to kill her.
