I just finished reading Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult. I thought the ending wasn't really the end. The novel just kind of stopped, almost like there should have been a few more chapters. I felt like Picoult left out important parts of the novel by just ending it. For example, a good portion of the novel is about Paige and trying to find herself (similar to Animal Dreams) and trying to win back her husband Nicholas after she leaves to find her mother and find out why she left. In the end though, you never find out if they get back together or not, it kind of leaves it up to the reader to decide. But with that, I also feel that there should have been more.
The novel I started reading today is The Memory Keeper's Daughter. I have only read a few pages of it, byut so far it seems really good. All I have read thus far is that this doctor's wife has gone into labor (1965) and she gives birth to twins, one of each a girl and boy. The boy is born in good health whereas the little girl is born with downsyndrom. At the time, children with downsyndrom were immidiately shipped off to be raised with people "of their own kind" which is exactly what happened. THat is all I have read so far, but it seems to be a pretty good novel so far.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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