I just got done with Keeping Faith by Jodie Picoult, my now 3rd book from her. All and more, bought after reading My Sisters Keeper, which I loved and which possibly might have been her best book?
This book was incredible dramatic, and God, oh so unrealistic. A little girl starts to quote bible verses and developes bleeding stigmata, after her Dad ran off with another woman. A custody hearing takes place. Faith goes into cardiac arrest twice, and noone knows why. She oh so surprisingly survives of course. The hearing goes on for about 150 pages, but you never hear the judge say who wins, and why. In the end Faiths stigmata are all of a sudden gone.
Isnt it a bit drastic to let a character develop stigmata as a form of psychosomatic response to a bad situation?
I do believe that the children in Fatima and Bernadette had appearances of the virgin Mary. I might possibly believe that someone found Jesus in her frying pan.
But for this book, I may just not be catholic enough. 😯
9:53 pm on October 6th, 2006
It’s actually quite annoying when you can see where a book is going and if it is irrealistic. One of my favourite books, is my favourite book precisely because it is so realistic 🙂
11:43 pm on October 6th, 2006
Oh Nicki, quick, whats your favourite book again? And have a very good weekend Sweetie! Thank you so much for always being here, in comment and email form! 😎
6:00 pm on October 8th, 2006
How do we know for certain what Jesus looks like…?
10:08 am on October 11th, 2006
Eeeek sorry – life has been very busy for my recently, homework wise. My favourite book is called “An Equal Music”, by Vikram Seth…http://www.amazon.co.uk/Equal-Music-Vikram-Seth/dp/0753807734/sr=1-1/qid=1160554117/ref=sr_1_1/026-1847184-3522842?ie=UTF8&s=books – 20% off at the moment, you have to get it 🙂
10:11 am on October 11th, 2006
Actually that link didn’t work, I’ll make it a proper link instead, using the link button.
You can also get a CD which has the music mentioned in the book in it (so, not the audio CD),I can find the link to that if you want.
😀 Take care xxx
11:06 pm on October 12th, 2006
It’s always a shame when books end up like that, especially when you’ve read other books by the same author and expect a certain level of quality. 😯
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