Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult

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Nineteen Minutes

Before reading Nineteen Minutes, I had read four books by Jodi Picoult, my favorite being My Sister's Keeper. Now, I have a new favorite. As in most of her books, Picoult takes a contreversial issue and shows you all side of the equation. But this time, Picoult takes an issue that isn't thought of as one of the most conterversial issues in our society, and makes you think about the situation in a whole new light.

New Book 

New Book by Jodi Picoult

Handle with Care: A Novel

Amazon Price: $18.45 (as of 11/28/2009)Buy Now

This new book was released on March 3. Buy yours today!

In Nineteen Minutes,

you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.

In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem.

In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it.

In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.

About the Book 

Throughout Peter Houghton's life, he has been bullied, everything from having his lunch stolen to being flagged in the middle of the cafeteria, from getting stuffed into a locker to having a private e-mail sent to the whole school. But can twelve years of being the victim give you the right to open fire on a whole school? That's what Peter Houghton did. He came into school with four guns, killing 10 and injuring many, many more.

Throughout this provocative novel, a serious question come up, who was the victim? Was it the bullies who were shot that day, or the one bullied his whole life? The parents who lost their children or the Houghtons, who realized they lost their child a long time ago?

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Nineteen Minutes

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Blog Posts about "Nineteen Minutes" 

Jodi Picoult #1 – Nineteen Minutes – Borders Book Club
CHAPTER 1 ? STARTING A BOOK Jodi Picoult joins the Borders Book Club to discuss Nineteen Minutes, her newest book. Topics include school shootings, bullying, the trials and tribulations of parenting, her characters and writing style. ...
Type A Mommy: Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
I first read Nineteen Minutes when it first came out, which was right before the Virginia Tech shooting several years ago. It was heartbreaking and timely, telling the story of a fictional school shooting, and I couldn't put it down. ...
Book Review – Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
It is a testament to the ability of the author, can take what may be the outrageously sensational material and produce a work of fiction, measured and compassionate. Jodi Picoult yet it has only succeeded in that, with Nineteen Minutes, ...

About the Author 

A little more about Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult majored in creative writing at Princeton. After she graduated, she worked odd jobs, such as copyrighter, techinical worker, an editor, and an English teacher. She then got a Masters in Education from Harvard University. Now, she is married to Ton Van Leer with three kids. She wrote her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale, when she was pregnant with her first child.

Visit her website at JodiPicoult.com

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