I read all Jodi Picoult's books a while back so it is hard to remember what I liked about each one! But I enjoyed them all.

Release planned for Friday, January 16, 2004 at another bookcrosser in a controlled release, n/a Controlled Releases.

Will be giving this to Nyassa

Picked up at a BookCrossing meeting - thank you mrsbridgewater

I have never read any of Jodi Picoult's books before so I had no idea what to expect. After a few pages I thought it was going to be boring and/or depressing but I have to say that I ended up not being able to put it down, helped I suppose by being trapped on a cross-channel ferry for several hours.

It is difficult to say anything which is not going to spoil the plot, but I did find it turned into something of a Grisham look-alike (or should I say read-alike?).

Reserved for bookfrogster as one of my first anniversary RABCKs.

27 Aug. Now on its way

Well, this book has arrived with me, but I'm not sure that it should have!

PMing you, Nyassa, to find out the score on this one!

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Sent on to bookfrogster yesterday - sorry, I've only managed to make release notes 24 hours later!

Really looking forward to reading this, as I enjoyed her other novel "Keeping Faith". Thanks very much for sending it to me nyassa and koalabear!

I've read one other book by Jodi Picoult, which I quite liked, but this one was definitely a lot better. Really interesting exploration of the reactions to a teen suicide/murder. Some of it was a bit disturbing in terms of the way Chris and Emily were expected to get together. Thought the sub title "A Love Story" was a bit misleading. It's about far more than that.
Thanks for passing this on to me nyassa.

Picked up at the Edinburgh meetup.

Re-captured at the Edinburgh meet-up as I want to offer as a ray on BCUK group. Names so far below

akg

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Off to akg as the first peron on the ray. Happy reading.

Recieved this book in the post today. Glad there is currently no rush for this book as one arrived on Saturday and another two are apparently in the post or soon to be. Everyone warned me they would all arrive at the same time, but I didn't believe them!!

The book opens with the death of one of the main characters and gradually through each chapter adds the information required to understand what really happened. I don’t know normally like books that move backwards and forwards through time, but it really worked here. You read the story as it is happening from the gunshot through all the consequences, but you also gain insight into all the characters through the past story, which begins before the two main characters are born and concludes just before the gunshot.

The book has made me think how well do we really know each other. There are so many different parts to our lives e.g. work, school, sport etc that no one other person can know it all. How can anyone really know everything about you? I think this is where the book is successful because if it had just been the present story from the gunshot through the court case there would be a number of gaps and questions, but we understand what the characters were thinking and doing through the past story.

Sending as a RABCK to k1rsteng. Hope you enjoy it and happy birthday!

My sister forwarded the book to Tokyo. I will pass the book on through friends in Japan and see where it goes from here.