Nineteen Minutes

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 stop the world, or you can just jump off it In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence In the aftermath, the town s residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured forever Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, could be the state s best witness, but she can t remember what happened in front of her own eyes And as the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show, destroying the closest of friendships and families Nineteen Minutes is New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult s most raw, honest, and important novel yet Told with the straightforward style for which she has become known, it asks simple questions that have no easy answers Can your own child become a mystery to you What does it mean to be different in our society Is it ever okay for a victim to strike back And who if anyone has the right to judge someone else Download Nineteen Minutes – kino-fada.fr This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I have read most of Jodi Picoult s books, and they are always entertaining and easy to read However, this one was definitely not my favorite, and I often found it a bit formulaic and poorly executed Maybe it s because I HAVE read so many of her books that I was looking for her signature twist at the ending which an astute reader will guess at halfway through the book, if not earlier , and her characters seem to act in certain ways that are not fitting Spoilers Follow I have read most of Jodi Picoult s books, and they are always entertaining and easy to read However, this one was definitely not my favorite, and I often found it a bit formulaic and poorly executed Maybe it s because I HAVE read so many of her books that I was looking for her signature twist at the ending which an astute reader will guess at halfway through the book, if not earlier , and her characters seem to act in certain ways that are not fitting Spoilers Follow SPOILERS BELOWThe book is centered around a high school shooting, the culprit a teenage boy named Peter Houghton, who to my mind is not a ...This book is a hard book to put down because the entire time you re seeking answers Why What actually happened What made it progress to this Things like that Things that people asked after Columbine, most recently after Virginia Tech, and after all the other school shootings Once again Jodi Picoult tackles a sensitive and controversial issue, in an amazingly strong and dignified manner that doesn t have you choosing sides.She did it to the reader in My Sister s Keeper, where the minute you This book is a hard book to put down because the entire time you re seeking answers Why What actually happened What made it progress to this Things like that Things that people asked after Columbine, most recently after Virginia Tech, and after all the other school shootings Once again Jodi Picoult tackles a sensitive and controversial issue, in an amazingly strong and dignified manner that doesn t have you choosing sides.She did it to the reader in My Sister s Keeper, where the minute you began to go to one side, she presents s...Believe it or not, I have never actually read one of Jodi Piccoult s books before I m not really sure why, but I haven t This particular book has really stayed with me as I finished it, and I think Piccoult makes a few very important points observations.1 Sometimes the perpetrator of a heinous crime is the biggest victim of them all Reading the things that Peter went through sometimes brought me to tears I have never understood how people can treat others so badly, and the behavior of the b Believe it or not, I have never actually read one of Jodi Piccoult s books before I m not really sure why, but I haven t This particular book has really stayed with me as I finished it, and I think Piccoult mak...When I read this book a few years ago, I had already gotten through four other Jodi Picoult My Sister s Keeper, The Tenth Circle, Vanishing Acts, and The Plain Truth, in case anyone cares I feel that we had a good relationship Sure, after the first exciting fling things got predictable pretty fast gee, I wonder if this one will have dramatic courtroom scenes , but Jodi was still able to keep me hooked Then I read Nineteen Minutes, and decided it was time to call it off One big problem When I read this book a few years ago, I had already gotten through four other Jodi Picoult My Sister s Keeper, The Tenth Circle, Vanishing Acts, and The Plain Truth, in case anyone cares I feel that we had a good relationship Sure, after the first exciting fling things got predictable pretty fast gee, I wonder if this one will have dramatic courtroom scenes , but Jodi was still able to keep me hooked Then I read Nineteen Minutes, and decided it was time to call it off One big problem with the book is that I was expected to think or at least consider that a kid being bullied for years is an excuse to shoot up a high school, killing not only the cliche popular jerks but also several innocent bystanders No I m sorry, no It didn t help that the bu...This is a powerful read After an act of violence is perpetuated at the local high school, those 19 minutes change a New Hampshire town forever The writing is riveting and poignant We are reading about the events leading up to the climax The history of the individuals involved Their mindset It s a lot to take in Especially because the good aren t all good and the bad aren t all bad I think as readers, it puts us in a unique and introspect...I can t stop loving this book, if you guys only have the chance to read this Sometimes I find her works destructing, annoying and a good sleeping pill for those people who suffer from insomnia I might be too judgmental but swear, you can take my words after reading her earlier works This time Picoult wanted to portray a community, a school, where innocent students were bullied by the jocks The reality of a typical American school environment for students who suffer to stand out in the crowd I can t stop loving this book, if you guys only have the chance to read this Sometimes I find her works destructing, annoying and a good sleeping pill for those people who suffer from insomnia I might be too judgmental but swear, you can take my words after reading her earlier works This time Picoult wanted to portray a community, a school, where innocent students were bullied by the jocks The reality of a typical American school environment for students who suffer to stand out in the crowd and to those people who feed in to gain their desires In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game In nineteen minutes, you can back scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist you can fold for family of five In nineteen minutes, you can stop th...I tend to rate books by how much they make me think, how much they make me feel, and how much they draw me into their world With an almost obsessive interest in Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Nineteen Minutes gets high marks from me The book starts with the scene of a school shooting where you feel a disgust for the kid doing the shooting and sorrow for the victims but as you glean settings from flashbacks you come to...The only other Picoult book I read was My Sister s Keeper, and I enjoyed it quite a bit Nineteen Minutes is a favorite among most people, so I had this one slated to read whenever I wanted a quick summer read.For the last 100 or so pages, I could hardly put it down Her formula for keeping the reader engaged works very well.But I had some issues with this book that annoyed the hell out of me Firstly, I have never come across so many stupid and needless analogies Or are they similes Whatever The only other Picoult book I read was My Sister s Keeper, and I enjoyed it qu...This is what I have come to understand about Jodi Picoult She takes a controversial or emotionally charged topic School shootings Childhood leukemia Amish people Then she centers that topic around terribly cliched characters and cranks the schmaltz meter to 11 The novels alternate between characters points of view so quickly that Picoult rivals most TV news stations in offering endless shallow ten second bits of information Each little section, offered at a rate that would overwhelm even This is what I have come to understand about Jodi Picoult She takes a controversial or emotionally charged topic School shootings Childhood leukemia Amish people Then she centers that topic around terribly cliched characters and cranks the schmaltz meter to 11 The novels alternate between characters points of view so quickly that Picoult rivals most TV news stations in offering endless shallow ten second bits of information Each little section, offered at a rate...Exceptionally written novel that shows us what s in the mind of a fictional school shooter, what led him to commit the crime, and how his actions affect the lives of his family and friends Picoult is a master at character development.

• English
• 22 June 2017
Jodi Picoult
• Hardcover
• 440 pages
• 0743496728
• Jodi Picoult
• Nineteen Minutes