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A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult - March 2019
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Oh man, I just got this book TODAY!! So, I guess that I have like, 4 days to read it, eh? Is this the actual discussion thread? Am I in the right place? Did NOBODY read/discuss this book? Bummer! --Jen from Quebec :0)
Looks like you have plenty of time! I know it's a bummer when no one discusses. Hopefully someone will join you. I wanted to join this one, but my library says I'm still about 13 weeks out on the hold list.
I'm about 100 pages in, but I guess I do not have to hurry after all, eh? --Jen from Quebec :0)
OMG, I LOVED this book!!! I listened to the audiobook version and I could not stop listening to it. I love Jodi Picoult books anyway, but this one just pulled me in. I was a little nervous at the end since I was unsure if one of the scenes was going to be completed, but it ends up being completed in the epilogue.Jen from Quebec - did you end up finishing it? What did you think? Have you ever read any other Jodi Picoult books?
I'm glad you enjoyed the audio, Kristy. I was a bit worried that it might be confusing with the format of the story. I didn't know if the reverse timeline would be more difficult to keep track of without being able to turn back pages occasionally. My library now says 9 weeks.
Kristie - I didn't find it hard to keep track of the timeline; but I'm also pretty used to Picoult's writing style. I suppose, if you're not used to it, it could be a lot harder. I found it pretty engrossing to listen to, though. I think either way this book is great though (as are most of Picoult's books)I hope the 9 weeks flies so you get to read it soon!
My library says my hold is still 5 weeks out. I'll try to remember to pop by here and leave my thoughts when I finally get it.
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center—a women’s reproductive health services clinic—its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.
After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.
But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester disguised as a patient, who now stands in the cross hairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard.
Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day.
Jodi Picoult—one of the most fearless writers of our time—tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? A Spark of Light will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding.