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►Book Review: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Book Review: My Sister's KeeperMy Sister's Keeper By Jodi Picoult is another really amazing book (it's a 4 out of 5 from me). It doesn't really have a constant POV, so everybody gets to tell their part of the story. Empathy, family and courage are some themes I feel are dorminant in this book.  Some of my favourite quotes from the book: “Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?” -Anna; My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult “You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.” -Campbell; My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult hmm... very very profound. SPOILERS!! Anna Fitzgerald was born to save her leukemia stricken sister, Kate. So, in a way, she never really felt like she was wanted in her family (man, that's got to be hard on a 13 year old) Summary: Anna sued her family for medical emincipation (later revealed that Kate asked Anna to do so), eventually winning the case against her mother. I don't think her mother actually ever empathized with her. I can understand that she has a really sick elder daughter, but in that full 13 years, couldn't she once take some time off to understand what her youngest daughter wanted? So, I felt really happy that for once in her life, Anna would live for herself and no one else. But good things never do last very long. Dang. Anna met with a car accident and was pronounced brain dead. (WTH?!?) -bangs head against wall- WHAT?! Writers must have a habbit of killing characters when something good happens to them. Anyway, the story goes on. Anna dies and Kate lives until the book ends in 2010 (well, at least someone benefits from this) I felt MAJOR heartache for Anna. It's really as if she was born to sacrifice her life for her sister. Because of her sister, she had to go through operations she had no say in. (duh, her parents expected her to save her sister. zero empathy from them here) Because of her sister, she couldn't lead her life normally. Because of her sister, she was born. Well, life ain't fair is it? (big big life lesson here) We can't always get what we want because our decisions may affect the people around us, just like Anna. I still think she deserved a better life after what she went through and gave up for her sister, other than dying in a car alone. Still, this book is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! -Sheryl Labels: Anna, Jodi Picoult, Kate, My Sister's Keeper |
Past Reviews.
Aldous Huxley♥Brave New World Ally Condie ♥Matched Cassandra Clare ♥Clockwork Angel ♥Clockwork Princess Erin Morgenstern ♥The Night Circus Isaac Marion ♥Warm Bodies Jay Asher ♥Thirteen Reasons Why Jennifer Armentrout ♥Opal Jodi Picoult ♥My Sister's Keeper ♥Between the Lines John Green ♥The Fault In Our Stars Low Kay Hwa ♥A Singapore Love Story Rainbow Rowell ♥Fangirl Ransom Riggs ♥Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Richelle Mead ♥Bloodlines ♥The Indigo Spell Stephenie Meyer ♥Twilight ♥The Host Veronica Roth ♥Divergent |