My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Definitely one of the best books I have ever read. I loved it. Loved it. Loved it. If I knew that popular fiction could be this readable and stimulating I would take more time out from reading books like these…Nine and Counting, Gang of Five, and My American Journey

I read a few reviews that were disturbed by her shifting of character perspective. I actually found that to be one of the more exciting joys of reading this story. I will not say too much more, I would never want to give anything away…so I shall leave you with a few teaser quotes from the book.

“When he kneels before me with his head over his heart, when I feel the water rocking the hull of the boat, I think that maybe this is the place for us. Maybe there are worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.”

“When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself…is that what love’s like?”

(Quoted from Hamlet…)
Doubt thou that the stars are fine;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to bear liar; But never doubt that I love.

“He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat. We are a study of contrasts hard to soft, fair to dark, frantic to smooth- and yet there is something about the fit of us that makes me realize neither of us would be right without the other.”

(Quoted from Paradise Lost, Milton)
Yet from those flames,
No light, but rather darkness visible.

“You don’t love somebody because they’re perfect…you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”

“Kate’s death would be the worst thing that ever happened to me and also the best.”

“I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes its not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still for better than never having had those children at all.”

So for those of you out there who know this author, which of her many, many books do you recommend I read next?