Speaking of . . .boars_heartJanuary 9 2010, 03:33:52 UTC
Isn't "My Sister's Keeper" just heart-wrenchingly brilliant?
"Four letter word for vessel?"
"Anna"
Oh, now turn the knife counterclockwise! Such an amazing book. Granted, I'm getting to be a bit of a softy in my dodderage, but still, when something makes ME cry . . . they've dug all the way down to true.
Re: Speaking of . . .kymsuzannJanuary 16 2010, 06:01:28 UTC
Yup. Not a crier myself either, but I read that one cover to cover and walked around the haus for the rest of the day with swollen eyes and a lump in my throat.
Heart-wrenching is an apt explicit. It's a book I'm glad to have read, but one I won't revisit. Once is enough.
The author could have not killed her in the end. :( That sucked bigtime, like Meg Ryan's character hitting that peach truck at the end of City of Angels.
Yes and no.boars_heartJanuary 16 2010, 06:07:58 UTC
The saddest part is, Anna would have done anything for her big sister . . . did the unimaginable, stood up to their parents and the courts, kept the big secret. How else could it have ended? Could she have lived with herself if it had WORKED?
Sigh. I get teary-eyed even now, thinking about it.
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"Four letter word for vessel?"
"Anna"
Oh, now turn the knife counterclockwise! Such an amazing book. Granted, I'm getting to be a bit of a softy in my dodderage, but still, when something makes ME cry . . . they've dug all the way down to true.
~Boar
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Heart-wrenching is an apt explicit. It's a book I'm glad to have read, but one I won't revisit. Once is enough.
The author could have not killed her in the end. :( That sucked bigtime, like Meg Ryan's character hitting that peach truck at the end of City of Angels.
Just not right. :(
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Sigh. I get teary-eyed even now, thinking about it.
~Boar
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Life doesn't work that way though. That was the only part of the whole book that struck me as contrived.
Just seems to me like taking the easy out to bring closure to an otherwise very REAL story. The ending wasn't worthy of the rest of the book.
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