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This book was especially hard to read due to the fact that it was written during a timeframe I and everyone else in the world would like to forget. I get it that the author needed to capitalize or get over her writing slump, but I could not fly by as quickly as I've done through her other novels because there is still a lot of pain and misinformation about COVID.

I loved rereading this. The audiobook was wonderful. I started it New Year‘s Eve and on January 1st I caught COVID for the first time. It has made reading this (her book about COVID) far more interesting! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Just made it.
Happy new year!
January 2, 2025

I‘m having a lazy, post-Christmas day. Reading (and napping) with my dog close by. Good book so far!
December 27, 2024.

Not a favorite of hers.

Thanks @Eggs for the #WondrousWednesday tag! 🤗

1️⃣ I have always wanted to go to The Galapagos. 💙💚💙

2️⃣ This book is partially set there & in my #TBR 🐢💚

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Listened to this today. Diana and Fin are set to vacay in the Galápagos Islands, but when C-19 hits, Fin (a doctor) can‘t leave but he wants Diana to go, which she does. Of course quarantine is enforced there so her stay turns into months, while Fin works with C patients dawn to dusk, and so many die…Well written

#ReadAway2024

@DieAReader @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES

This book takes us back to 2020 when Covid hit the world. It started off kind of slow but I got into the story and then everything I thought was happening flipped. This was a pretty decent book. I enjoyed it.

Full disclosure, this is a pandemic book set in New York City, which was one of the most COVID-19-wracked cities in the USA. Jodie P did her research, as per usual. It wasn‘t your typical Jodi P book, tho, in that it‘s told from a single POV. I read it in two days. It fully immersed me. It‘s a book about finding hope in a dark time and finding yourself along the way.

This had a twist that I wasn‘t expecting. Nice read.

1. Make appointments for a pedicure and eyebrows. 😂
2. I wanted to be a lawyer so I could make a lot of money. It didn‘t happen.
3. Yes - our annual beach trip down the shore. 🌊⛱️
4. I haven‘t read a Jodi Picoult book in a while.

#motivationalmonday @Cupcake12

Rainy day reading

I‘m giving this book 5 stars because it is the first book in a long time that made me stop halfway and react to what I read. At first, I wasn‘t sure about reading a book about Covid. We lived through it and that wasn‘t fun and I didn‘t want to relive it in fiction where I go to escape, but this wasn‘t what I expected at all. Really unique story with a really interesting twist. I am surprised at how much I liked this book.

Early morning reading = best way to play hooky

My second book by Jodi Picoult, and I really enjoyed it! I was completely not expecting the turn in this book, and I am becoming very fond of Jodi Picoult‘s writing style! 4/5 ⭐️

Went in blind for this one. Heavy.

#12Booksof2023 #WishYouWereHere

Diana O'Toole is about to get engaged on a trip to Galapagos Island but a virus hits New York on the eve of their departure. Finn tells her she should still go to the island as he has to stay at the hospital to handle all the sick. When Diana arrives on the island the whole island is now under quarantine and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated Diana must venture beyond her comfort zone.

Sad but true.

My most favourite part of the book was reading all the adventures Diana had around the island.

My least favourite part of the book was the Covid aspect. I am already living it for the past 3 years, so reading more about it was the last thing I wanted to do. I decided to be ignorant though.

What I will remember most about this book was that the postcards that was written to Finn by Diana from the island.

Great book! Keeps you guessing on what is her reality and what is fantasy until the last 100 pages. Easy and fun to read!

Well written. I really enjoyed the emails describing the desperation of COVID. I thought the ending was odd. I will always read Picoult bc they are always good. I just strongly prefer the ones she writes about ethical dilemmas.

This is my choice for February #2023readingbracket. I am actually surprised, as I‘ve never been a Picoult fan, other than Nineteen Minutes, which I thought was wonderful. This one was excellent, although it is a Covid book, so if you are avoiding that then skip this one!

This book is so much better than I thought it would be. The description doesn‘t do it justice. Jodi Picoult has been hit and miss with me. This book appeared in my Apple Books, and I have no memory of buying it. (I probably bought it). Maybe because it was the audiobook, maybe I was just in the right mood, but I fell into this one and didn‘t stop till the end. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Diana O'Toole is about to get engaged on a trip to Galapagos Island but a virus hits New York on the eve of their departure. Finn tells her she should still go as he has to stay at the hospital to handle all the sick. When Diana arrives on the island the whole island is now under quarantine and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated Diana must venture beyond her comfort zone.

At present, this is a “living” novel making it extremely difficult to review as I‘m sure it was for the author to write. Many years from now people will read this book with same sense of bewilderment that we currently feel while reading about the Pandemic of 1918 or the 1883 epidemic of small pox. As unreal as it may seem while reading about it, living through it is an entirely different experience.

#topread2022 #januaryjazz @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#12BooksOf2022 #May @Andrew65

This book surprised me and hit close to home. I love Picoult‘s writing and this was a contender for my favorite book of the year.

#AdventRecommends @emilyrose_x

This has been one of my favorite reads this year. I definitely wasn‘t expecting it to go the way it went. I don‘t want to spoil anything. I will say I had a similar experience and didn‘t know it was a “thing” until I heard Picoult talking about her research for this book.

#83
I absolutely loved this book!!!

a refreshing yet realistic love novel. was worried about the repetitiveness of a quarantine story but Picoult prevailed. 4.5/5

I didn't think I was ready to read a book that was set during the height of the covid 19 pandemic. Jodi Picoult does it well. I like how she questions alternate realities, parallel universes and the possibility of the multiverse. The only other Picoult book I have read was My Sister's Keeper. Which one should I read next?

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

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🍁🍁🍁 I wasn‘t expecting that!

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🍁🍁🍁I never saw the twist in this book coming!!

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@KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi

As a devoted Jodi picoult fan, it pains me to rate this one as “meh.” Her authors note says she wrote this book at land-speed, and it shows. It‘s fragmented and felt rushed, but also long winded at certain times. There are highlights-the lessons we‘ve learned through the pandemic, how to appreciate who and what you love in the now. The research about NDEs and coma dreams of parallel universes was striking, though. Not bad, but not her best work.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ full review at thejwordpress.wordpress.com

I am not sure I have words to describe this book… set during Covid it was at times hard to read and at others incredibly uplifting and hopeful. Picoult has a way of taking hard topics and making them so real and raw that they will stay with you for a long time to come!