Monday, May 4, 2009

Books books books!

Just a blink of an eye and the holidays are already over.
Though the holidays had been unproductive as usual, but at least I managed to read three books.
Great books i must add. =)

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Fiction
This novel is about a young girl, named Anna who was conceived as a harvest child to save her sister. From the second she was born and throughout her life, she had to constantly donate blood and bone marrow to her sister, Kate who was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia when she was two. The turning point for Anna was when her parents wanted her to donate a kidney to her sister. Anna filed a lawsuit against her parents to obtain medical emancipation.....


One Child by Torey Hayden
Non-fiction
A MUST READ!
Sheila came into Torey Hayden's class for "special children" at the age of 6 after having tied a 3 year-old child to a tree and critically burned him. One Child is Torey Hayden's story of her attempt to tap the unbelievable capacity of this tortured child. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvation except her teacher. With patience, skill and abiding love, she fought long and hard to release a haunted little girl from her secret nightmare, and nurture the spark of genius she recognized trapped within Sheila's silence......


Sunday at Tiffany's by James Patterson
Fiction
Jane Margaux is a lonely little girl. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him. Michael can't stay forever, though. On Jane's ninth birthday he leaves, promising her that she'll soon forget him. Years later, in her thirties, Jane is just as alone as she was as a child. And despite her own success as a playwright, she is even more trapped by her overbearing mother. Then she meets someone–a handsome, comforting, funny man. He's perfect. His name is Michael...

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