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Review Date: 7/22/2008
Helpful Score: 2
A really sweet love story, very realistic to real life. I love how the author builds his characters into these real people. Noone is perfect. The ending is terribly sad, even as Nicholas Sparks goes. I really didn't see it coming.
Review Date: 2/8/2008
Helpful Score: 5
This book was a very interesting read for me. I felt that it was a good choice to read as the mother of a young girl.
Some of the history of how females were treated in relation with how they view thier bodies and thier functions, as well as thier sexuality really resonated in me.
Some of the most interesting parts of it included diaries of young girls over a long time. The author had managed to find diarys of American girls from the early part of the century on. I also found it facinating how ingorant the medical community was about females until surprizingly recently in history. It draws attention to things that were and are taboo for hardly any reason at all, as well.
I would recommend this book as a way to reflect on yourself if you are a woman, as a way to improve your mothering of a daughter if you are a mother of a daughter, and if you are a man (and can stand reading about periods and what not....) it takes a look inside a world unknown.
Some of the history of how females were treated in relation with how they view thier bodies and thier functions, as well as thier sexuality really resonated in me.
Some of the most interesting parts of it included diaries of young girls over a long time. The author had managed to find diarys of American girls from the early part of the century on. I also found it facinating how ingorant the medical community was about females until surprizingly recently in history. It draws attention to things that were and are taboo for hardly any reason at all, as well.
I would recommend this book as a way to reflect on yourself if you are a woman, as a way to improve your mothering of a daughter if you are a mother of a daughter, and if you are a man (and can stand reading about periods and what not....) it takes a look inside a world unknown.
Review Date: 2/17/2008
I got this book out from the library after reading a review on The Simple Dollar that it is essential for any parent to read.
I found that the book just confirms my fears about commercialism and the changing values of our American culture.
Full of wonderful statistics and some direct examples of the types of advertising that we may not even know about or realise is advertisment.
I found that the book just confirms my fears about commercialism and the changing values of our American culture.
Full of wonderful statistics and some direct examples of the types of advertising that we may not even know about or realise is advertisment.
Review Date: 7/18/2008
This is not a book that I would normally pick...but I got it for free and figured that any book is worth a try!
I spent most of the first half of the book wondering why the author made the plot so easy to figure out! You can guess the end from the 3rd or 4th chapter. I even considered not finishing the book out of spite. But instead I was compeled to finish the book just to see how the characters (who are very strongly written) would react to the news that the reader could see from the beginning.
Not the best book but fine for an easy read.
I spent most of the first half of the book wondering why the author made the plot so easy to figure out! You can guess the end from the 3rd or 4th chapter. I even considered not finishing the book out of spite. But instead I was compeled to finish the book just to see how the characters (who are very strongly written) would react to the news that the reader could see from the beginning.
Not the best book but fine for an easy read.
Review Date: 7/11/2010
Helpful Score: 1
I love the perspective that Picoult writes from because it is very unique to other writers. That said, this was a very good book. It made me really think about the moral dilemmas that modern medicine places on us as a society. I also felt it put a face on malpracice lawsuits in this litigius world. I have come the conclusion that her books are all somewhat depressing...although I didn't sob through half of the book like My Sister's Keeper.
Review Date: 2/29/2008
Helpful Score: 1
Fast food nation....before there was fast food.
A look into the culture of early America, and potential communism. You will really feel for the families involved.
(my high school history teacher didn't believe I read the entire book. He didn't know about my biblophile tendancies!)
A look into the culture of early America, and potential communism. You will really feel for the families involved.
(my high school history teacher didn't believe I read the entire book. He didn't know about my biblophile tendancies!)
Review Date: 4/2/2008
This book was interesting and thought provoking. I do not agree at all with the authors politics, but found it interesting how some people live thier lives, and the difference in thier perspective regarding thier lifestyle and mine regarding thier lifestyle. I felt it was well written, I was able to read it quickly because it kept my attention.
Review Date: 2/8/2008
Helpful Score: 2
This book explores the grieving of a woman who has lost her husband, a pilot, in a contraversal crash. While the world around her investigates wiether or not the crash was pilot error, mechanical, or even a suicide taking the passengers with, Kathryn (our main character) has to go through many more things than even that. Her young daughter is distraught and acting out, she is finding out about her husbands real character, and dealing with her own grief and emotions. And then, when it couldn't get any more dramatic, there is a startling twist.
Read it. It's a good one. Drama central. Crying and gasping.
Read it. It's a good one. Drama central. Crying and gasping.
Review Date: 2/29/2008
This book was wonderful. Meet Dinah, a small blurb in the bible. The author takes her entire life and lays it before our very eyes. I loved her as a character...and really enjoyed learning about the culture of that time. This book is keeper for me.
Review Date: 2/8/2008
Helpful Score: 2
This is a book about the destruction of the world. It contains graphic imagry and imaginative concepts. It takes your prespective and challenges it. Who is it that is destroying the world. God? The devil? Aliens? Is it just the product of the main characters writing (she is a writer)?
This book was amazing. You fear for the characters. You don't understand why the horror around them is happening. My theries changed over and over again. And then you even question yourself a little. I gasped. I cried. I most certainly didn't laugh.
2 thumbs up (because I only have two thumbs!)
This book was amazing. You fear for the characters. You don't understand why the horror around them is happening. My theries changed over and over again. And then you even question yourself a little. I gasped. I cried. I most certainly didn't laugh.
2 thumbs up (because I only have two thumbs!)
Review Date: 2/8/2008
Helpful Score: 2
Take a journey into a world of a very sad man. He is writing to a person he has lost and during a majority of the book it eludes to some sort of tragedy. Only in the end you find out who he has to forgive to find himself and allow life to go on by allowing himself to open up to others.
This is a love story built from tragedy. Very sad, with a sweet ending.
This is a love story built from tragedy. Very sad, with a sweet ending.
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