Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult 04/02/08

June is a central figure of this book, though we don’t hear much from her.  In the beginning, she is in a car accident and her husband dies, but her daughter does not.  June meets a policeman whom she ultimately marries.
Enter Shay. The story begins with his trial for the double murder of the policeman [...]

Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult 11/16/07

I finished this at about 1 am this morning! That and the excessive amount of snow outside are why I am not at church. Well, that and the fact that I am going to a Christmas party this afternoon as well as grocery shopping and that’s enough time to leave Peggy Sue at [...]

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult 10/16/07 (audio)

This was a great story.
Oddly, I found myself identifying more with the “villian” in the story than the “good guys.”
Peter Houghton is a high school junior who has had it with being bullied and goes to school one day and shoots ten of his classmates and a teacher.  The story explores how it happened, what [...]

Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult 07/29/07

I didn’t finish this.  I think I only got about 50 pages or so into it.  It was too confusing bouncing from person to person, from time to time.  I had no idea who people were or even what time they were in – it bounced back and forth from when one of the characters [...]