Lucybird
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Mines probably Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix too, I started A Suitable Boy too but never really got into it and gave up, I still have a bookmark where I stopped though!
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I never read hardbacks with the jackets on, I worry to much that they'll get dirty or torn, so I put them back on the bookcase where the book usually is
I usually take them off too, they just annoy me otherwise. But Mercy is my bed book, it's easy to slip the cover back on once I want to go to sleep or get up
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We're having vegetable goulash tonight
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Hmm I found it weird, but I'm sure once the 4 weeks are up it will be ok, but I still would much rather the 'real' Libby
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Yes it is, not my favourite though
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I'm using a bookcrossing one right now. Generally I just use scraps of paper and stuff, I have a tag off a birthday present parking my place in Rachel Ray. My copy of Mercy is a hardback so I'm using the flap of the dust jacket for that.
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Generally I prefer paperbacks, they're easier to carry around, cheaper and don't have annoying dust jackets (which I always take off paper backs) I always feel I need to keep hardbacks neat too (try telling that to my copy of Goblet of Fire!). I do prefer the way hardbacks look though and for a book I want a copy to treasure rather than just to read I would probably go for the hardcover
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'My Mother did not tell me they were coming.'
Girl with the Pearl Earring- Tracy Chevalier
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I must admit the blurb doesn't really do it justice. In a way the heart donation is more of a side topic, I would say religion is the central theme
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Yeah I would rather have him here all the time, but at least there are some kind of good things
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Hia Jenn,
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to the forum, hope you like it here
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to the forum Sam. Hope you enjoy it here
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Tony. Hope you like it here
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LOL, like?
Like you appreciate them more when you have them.
And other less family friendly things
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Hello Lucybird, how are you? So you enjoyed Change of Heart, then? I have to say I agreed with your review of the book & what you thought could have made it such a better book!
Thanks, I'm good. Glad I'm not the only one who thought it.
It's on 3 for 2 at waterstones at the moment too
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Aww, it's no fun, I know. But, there are plus-sides to long distance relationships, too.
Yeah that's true I guess
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I have this on my wishlist
do you recommend it? Or did the ending ruin it?Yes I do, a different ending would have been better, but the rest made up for the end, and the end wasn't exactly bad, just could have been better
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We're having vegetable balti tonight
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1. I have osteoporosis but until October, when I got hit by a car, I hadn't broken a bone for about 15 years.
2. I have a degree in psychology
3. I have 2 sisters, I'm the middle one
4. I am a Harry Potter addict and can relate pretty much anything to Harry Potter, but Harry Potter books aren't actually my favourites
5. I've been with my boyfriend for almost 3 years and he's my first proper boyfriend. We're doing long distance right now which is hard
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Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Synopsis
Shay Bourne is New Hampshire's only death row inmate, after having been found guilty of murdering a police officer and his stepdaughter. When Shay sees the police officer's daughter (Claire), who was born after his death, on the television because she needs a heart transplant he decides he needs to donate his heart for her after he has been executed. Will Claire's mother accept the heart to save her daughter, or will she not be able to let Claire have the heart of the man who killed her sister and father?
After Shay's decision strange things start to happen in the prison and people gather outside believing he is responsible for the miracles. Is Shay responsible? Could he be more than he seems?
Review
After being somewhat disappointed with the last couple of Jodi Picoult books I've read (Second Glance and, to some extent, Mercy) I was happy to find that Change of Heart was back on form.
It wasn't what I expected from the blurb though. It was more about religion than about the actual heart donation, although that was part of it. In that way it reminded me of Keeping Faith (and also had a brief apperance if Ian Fletcher) except that while Keeping Faith is about finding faith Change of Heart is more about challenging it.
There were also elements which reminded me of My Sister's Keeper. About the morality of accepting the heart.
But it was the other way around, the donor, Shay, would do anything to get his heart to Claire. Whereas Claire didn't want it because of who it came from
As with most of Jodi Picoult's book there is some interesting information in this one, about religion and about heart transplants.
As with My Sister's Keeper I found the end a bit of a cop out
pretty much all the miracles were explained away, plus how Shay was quoting the mainly unknown Gospel of Thomas. Leaving it more open ended would have been better I think so the reader could decide what they thought. And even though Claire didn't want the heart she was made to have it by her mother, having her decide for herself would, in my opinion have been better.
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I can't remember the chamber of secrets first line either! I think it is probably something to do with Harry being in his room. Perhaps doing homework. I only remember it because I had to read it so many times to my brothers. They forgot what happened so I started again
"Almost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son." 'Salem's Lot, Stephen King.
Oh it's something about he was an unusual boy in many ways, firstly he was a wizard, secondly he actually wanted to do his homework but had to study it at night...no that's Prisoner of Azkaban isn't it? Because he was writing his history of magic essay about witch burning and he finished it in diagon alley outside floren's ice-cream parlour...
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Sunday dinner today so. Roast lamb, roast potatoes, leeks, cauliflower cheese, carrots, peas and gravy.
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I like the new advert for Twix
I prefered the old one
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