Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Insensitive


These days, I’ve been avoiding something and it’s just now that I realize what it is.

Usually, when I start reading a book, I finish it in a couple of days. If I started on a weekend, I finish it over the night. It’s not that I rush getting through with it; I just find it difficult to close and put down a book after I’ve started page one.

However, with this particular book I’m reading, I can’t quite make myself finish it. No, the story’s not boring. And believe me, it deserves its best-seller label. Perhaps, I just don’t want to find out what happens in the end. I don’t want to know whether Peter Houghton was acquitted or jailed forever. I don’t want to find out if his mom was able to forgive herself. And, I’m not sure if I really want Josie’s secret revealed.

I know it sounds weird, but I always get affected by the characters in the books I read. It’s hard for me to be detached from the story. Most of the time, I find myself stopping at some lines and re-reading them over and over, as if trying to recall if there had been the same scenarios in my life or trying to picture them happening in my future.

What was Hitler’s mom like?

What would you have done?

What would make it all go back to normal?

Why my son?

Questions. These are questions of the characters in the story, and if you still hadn’t figured out, nobody ends up winning. In the plot, in a case where a teenager shoots other teenagers, everybody loses. Whether you’re the victim, the survivor, the murderer or the parents of those mentioned, you get through the experience with a scar. Some might be deeper than the others, but all the same, the scars will be there forever.

I am a hundred pages away from finishing the book, but it makes me wonder, is reaching the last page reaching the end of the story?

Comments:
Jodi Picoult's novels cut through the heart. She's a great narrator:)
 
Jodi Picoult's novels cut through the heart. She's a great narrator:)
 
what other Piccoult's novels have you read?

i wanna read more of her works, even though i still haven't recovered from nineteen minutes.

*sad*
 
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