Our Book Club

Back when I used to have a job... ( As a manager of a sports bar and grill)

Well, that was like a year ago... But anyways,

We decided that since we all enjoyed reading so much that we would start a book club.
The first book that we chose to read was, CHANGE OF HEART by Jodi Picoult.

Okay, lets start by asking this...

How many of you have ever read a Jodi Picoult book?
At this point, I never had...

But, we read it...

and LOVED IT!
Her book was awesome!

Synopsis:

Shay Bourne - New Hampshire’s first death row prisoner in 69 years – has only one last request: to donate his heart post-execution to the sister of his victim, who is looking for a transplant. Bourne says it’s the only way he can redeem himself…but with lethal injection as his form of execution, this is medically impossible. Enter Father Michael Wright, a young local priest. Called in as Shay’s spiritual advisor, he knows redemption has nothing to do with organ donation – and plans to convince Bourne. But then Bourne begins to perform miracles at the prison that are witnessed by officers, fellow inmates, and even Father Michael – and the media begins to call him a messiah. Could an unkempt, bipolar, convicted murderer be a savior? It seems highly unlikely, to the priest. Until he realizes that the things Shay says may not come from the Bible…but are, verbatim, from a gospel that the early Christian church rejected two thousand years ago…and that is still considered heresy.

Change Of Heart looks at the nature of organized religion and belief, and takes the reader behind the closely drawn curtains of America’s death penalty. Featuring the return of Ian Fletcher from Keeping Faith, it also asks whether religion and politics truly are separate in this country, or inextricably tangled. Does religion make us more tolerant, or less? Do we believe what we do because it’s right? Or because it’s too frightening to admit that we may not have the answers?

I am telling you! We had so many discussions about this book... Think about it...

What would you do? He wants to DONATE HIS heart to the sister of his VICTIM.

Would you grant his wish and let him donate it?

This book, as in pretty much ALL of her books makes you think.

After reading this one, we tried to read other books, but some how or another, we would always find ourself reading another one of hers... What turned out as a small book club of 4 girls turned into everyone reading Jodi Picoult!
We could not stop talking about this book, it really made everyone stop and think...
Slowly we started to notice...

I would read another of her books, a few friends would read others, then we would swap.
We noticed that customers that had heard us mention it were reading these books, other people that worked with us. Our friends...

It was an addiction!

I hate to admit it, but over the next couple months, I slowly bought ALL of her books.

The only thing I hate about new releases are that they are hard back and all of her other ones are paperback...
So, Change of Heart doesn't flow when you look at my bookshelf.

Then, she released another one...

Handle with Care.

Synopsis:

When Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe’s daughter, Willow, is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, they are devastated – she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. As the family struggles to make ends meet to cover Willow’s medical expenses, Charlotte thinks she has found an answer. If she files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her ob/gyn for not telling her in advance that her child would be born severely disabled, the monetary payouts might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow. But it means that Charlotte has to get up in a court of law and say in public that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she’d known about the disability in advance – words that her husband can’t abide, that Willow will hear, and that Charlotte cannot reconcile. And the ob/gyn she’s suing isn’t just her physician – it’s her best friend.

Handle With Care explores the knotty tangle of medical ethics and personal morality. When faced with the reality of a fetus who will be disabled, at which point should an OB counsel termination? Should a parent have the right to make that choice? How disabled is TOO disabled? And as a parent, how far would you go to take care of someone you love? Would you alienate the rest of your family? Would you be willing to lie to your friends, to your spouse, to a court? And perhaps most difficult of all – would you admit to yourself that you might not actually be lying?

Once again, you start to ask questions...
I think this is one of the main reasons I love her books...

Lifetime had her movie, The Tenth Circle...
LOVED IT!
Then, My Sisters Keeper just came out...
Another winner!

She has a new book coming out in March!
Check out her books...
I know you will love it!