BOOK SALE!!!

[im_writing]

My library is having its annual book sale this weekend!  This is the first time I've gone (because I actually haven't been in the area that long) and it was AMAZING.  There were so many books, I don't even think I scratched the surface of what was there.  However, because I'm broke, I kept myself to a strict budget of $20.  Here's what I got.

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Comments

[kittyknighton]

Ohh my god, My Sister's Keeper. Possibly the worst book I've ever read. =P

[im_writing]

Really? I really like it. I cry like a freakin' baby every time I read it.

Though, I will admit that the movie was a hot mess. It was so terrible and made me so mad.

[kittyknighton]

It did pack a strong emotional punch for me, but I don't enjoy the genre enough to overlook the blinding medical inaccuracies and that I felt the ending was a giant deus ex machina designed to keep the author from having to own up to the moral dilemma she spent the whole book setting up. She basically threw it all away to play a "save the cancer patient" trope that was more based on wishful thinking than how that should have played out realistically. And I didn't feel like there was enough emotional consequence on the parents' part. Like really, they should have been miserable that their other daughter died instead of thankful that she miraculously died to save the daughter with cancer, which is more or less what I got out of it. Never do they have to confront the fact that they should have treated that daughter better her entire life. I just felt like at a point the author lost sight of her characters and her plot because she was too in love with an ending that negated the entire purpose of the story

[im_writing]

Huh, interesting. I just always felt like the point of the reverse deaths was kind of a "appreciate the time you have" kind of feel for the book. The parents had been so focused on losing one kid, they never once considered losing the other and, basically, wasted all that time that they could have used to get to know their daughter. Both their kids really (because they knew next to nothing about the son.)

I don't remember the part where she assists in patient care, but I agree that's dumb. They would never, EVER, have let her near that ever.