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Post by Jackie on Apr 17, 2009 9:08:38 GMT -5
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult is a must read for us. Here is the blurb from her site.
Handle With Care hit bookstores on March 3! It’s is about a family struggling to deal with their young daughter’s rare bone disease. Might it have been better if she had never been born?
It is about OI a rare bone disease (brittle bone disease) and the issues of carrying a baby to term with it diagnosed or as in the case in this book ...misdiagnosed....in utero.
This was an interesting yet hard book for me to read. It deals very well with the overwhelming responsibility put on most mothers of children with disabilities. I will say it has a lot about DS in it...and I found it to be postivie.
It deals with the 'choices' that are now available due to early testing in pregnancies. Very timely with the discussions we have had here lately. I don't think it is 'pro' anything but it does bring up both sides of this discussion very well.
It is written in her typical style of narrative thru the various characters.
I think you will like reading it.
Jackie
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Post by alisonzmom on Apr 17, 2009 14:34:19 GMT -5
This is my next book to read......
Just about finished with her book "Nineteen Minutes"
Jodi Piccoult has quickly become one of my favorite authors although I'd be hard pressed to pick a fav amongst the books of hers that I've read lately!
Thanks for the review!
Barb
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Post by Jackie on Apr 17, 2009 16:20:03 GMT -5
It's not really a review...LOL...sorry but not that good at book reviews...but it is a timely piece of literature especially with all the medical break throughs and different schools of thought on them.
I think I will post about it too on the new Sarah Palin and Trig post on the main page.
Jackie
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Post by Jackie on Apr 18, 2009 15:36:17 GMT -5
I need to add a bit of a postcript here to my post. This book describes somewhat in depth the feelings of a mother who has a child with a major disability. I related to it because I have feelings that I don't even share with those I am closest too and feelings that maybe I have not ever admitted to myself. This book touched on a couple of those and I admit it was a bit hard. I am sure many of you will probably feel the same way I did when I read it...just a warning that it is not necessarily a FUN read...but very timely.
Jackie
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Post by Chris too on Apr 20, 2009 8:14:46 GMT -5
Maybe I'll give it a pass. I had a very hard time with Roadmap to Holland because she shared feelings that I can certainly understand, but which I could not at all say that I shared. I will criticize neither the feelings nor the expression of them, but I much prefer to not read them or hear about them. I'm such a wimp - I want giddy, transcendant hope instead of realistic, tough-earned hope, even thought I am sure that it is good for character-building - that realism - I still shy away. What a wimp - one who will remain a wimp as long as God allows
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Post by kg91207 on Apr 20, 2009 8:37:10 GMT -5
I may have to read this book. And it's ok to be a wimp!
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Post by Jackie on Apr 22, 2009 18:27:48 GMT -5
I found it a release to confront some of these same feelings. It wasn't that threatening because the feelings expressed in the book related to someone else with another situation. I thought that for me it was good to read and be able to eplain to myself some of what I had gone through and the fears I had earlier in all of this adventure concerning what life might be life for me. From my point of view the author did an excellent job of explaining the worries of a parent of a child with a disability and how it somehow sets them apart from others at times. I realize that it is not a read for everyone but I know there are many Jodi Picoult readers out there who might enjoy it.
Jackie
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Post by alisonzmom on Apr 24, 2009 18:26:33 GMT -5
I'm about half way through this book now.
I think I know what your saying Jackie. It definitely is not an "easy" read - although few of Jodi Piccoult's books really are. She really has dredged up some feelings that I've kept buried VERY deep! But as Jackie says, it's no been as hard to deal with as it might have been. Definitely not putting me off of this book.
Barb
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