Lucybird

I read the blurb first, and maybe the first paragraph if I'm unsure.

hmm I may watch, but isn't Graham Norton presenting this year? He really annoys me

I wanted to say some things about this book, or more I suppose how I relate to this book before I got caught up in the law side of the storyline Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult Synopsis (from amazon) Everything breaks. Some things just hurt more than others. Charlotte O'Keefe's beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta - a very severe form of brittle bone disease. If she slips on a crisp packet she could break both her legs, and spend six months in a half body cast. After years of caring for Willow, her family faces financial disaster. Then Charlotte is offered a lifeline. She could sue her obstetrician for wrongful birth - for not having diagnosed Willow's condition early enough in the pregnancy to be able to abort the child. The payout could secure Willow's future. But to get it would mean Charlotte suing her best friend. And standing up in court to declare that she would have prefered that Willow had never been born... Initial thoughts Before I even started this book I knew it could be one which I could connect with, and I'm glad I wasn't wrong. When I was 7 I was diagnosed with osteoporosis, a disorder which is similar to osteogenisis imperfecta, in fact at points it had been proposed that this is what I have, although tests have said osteoporosis. My osteoporosis is nowhere near as bad as Willow's but all the same I recognise some of the issues she has as my own problems, especially when I was younger. I can't even remember my first break, or my second, one I got falling down a couple of stairs I was crawling up, the other falling off my parents bed . When I was just finishing my first year of primary school is the first break I can remember, I broke my femur falling off my scooter, I was in traction for the whole Summer holiday. I broke my leg again falling over on my crutches, then my ankle when my foot slipped off the foot rest on my pushchair while I was still recovering. After that I had no breaks until just before I joined here, in more normal circumstances this time, I was hit by a car. I had the same bisphosphonate treatment as Willow in my teens, which was rather successful. All the same I do fear things, I fear falling a little, I've never been skating, or learnt to ride a bike, I'm scared of heights, I hate ladders and am not always comfortable with stairs unless I already know them. I am better than I once was, I know that just falling is unlikely to harm me, although my recent break is somewhat of a set back. I have never pitied myself, it's just the way I am, but this book has made me think about myself, and my illness (I say for want of a better word)

Cold meat, potatos, salad and, I think, indian snacks

that's great!

Hallo Escargot to the forum.

awesome, shame we don't have a microwave

We had Sunday roast, chicken this week

Oh I love buying new pens too! I used to have every colour of gel pen when I was younger. It's odd actually because I always use the same type of pen, and that doesn't come in pretty versions

oh yes Paperchase tempts me too! I quite often go to the Starbucks in Borders so I can look at the books (unless it's only on offer in Borders though I usually buy in Waterstones) on the way and can never resist looking in Paperchase too, there is one in Selfridges too so they're pretty hard to avoid

well at least me and Chimera love you mac!

it's quite funny that that dream scared you

That's the thing that annoys me about macs too, it's not as if they can't code it for a mac, they just don't! At least if you get bootleg you can use a windows system if you need to. Luckily my department at uni used macs so I could get a mac laptop and not worry about not being able to use software I needed.

haven't done this for a while, got 9/10 despite guessing the Stephen King ones, got the My Fair Lady one wrong

Things break all the time Handle with Care- Jodi Picoult

Next up I'm going to read Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult, because I just can't resist!

Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann Synopsis (from Amazon) Two tales of love Two stories of loss One great emotional journey… 1992: Leo Deakin wakes up in hospital somewhere in South America. His girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo doesn’t know where he is or how she died. He blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But Leo is about to discover something that will change his life for ever. 1917: Moritz Daniecki has survived fighting in the Great War. But at what cost? Abandoned in the Siberian wilderness, he is determined to return to his beloved Lotte, the memory of whose single kiss has sustained him throughout the war. What lies before him is a terrifying journey over the Russian Steppes. If he ever makes it, will she still be waiting? Review This book had been on my wishlist for ages before I actually bought it, as I had been unsure as to whether I would enjoy it or not. Now I wish I'd bought it earlier. It was beautiful, and sad, . It is the story of lost love and the search for love. Two tales, one of a soilder of the first world war, and the other of a boy from more recent times whose girlfriend had died. Books don't usually make me cry but this one deffinatly brought a few tears to my eyes. At first In prefered the recent story was the one I was more interested in but gradually I became just as interested in the second story. The soilder in the second story was a soilder for Austria-Hungry fighting on the Russian front, generally stories of war are based around the British army and around Flanders, or at least that side of the fight so it was good to see a different army and different battlefields. The characters seemed very real to me, as in nothing was black and white, while I still had favourite characters there were no characters I could say were all good or all bad. 4.5/5 (I'm taking off half a point because the second story took a while to interest me) I've offered this up as a bookring here

Oh I'm definitely glad it's on my list then! I just have to buy it now!

yes I do that too I like adding things and such

I was thinking of getting one to do that with, easier than riffling through a load of different cookbooks (or in my case printing them off the computer again and again because they get stuff spilllt on them)...and means you can put your own ones too

I'm more like Frankie. was constantly buyin them as a kid but not I find resisting a bit easier! I still would love a moleskin notebook though...and I often see pretty ones I want. I have so many already half filled.

What did you think of The Gurnsey Literary and Potato peel pie society? It's on my wishlist

yeah that and Second Glance I didn't rate. My Sister's Keeper is probably my favourite

Since Mercy I worry that Jodi Picoult books won't reach up to expectations, hopefully this one will

Handle with Care is next on my TBR pile, glad to see you liked it