Overexcited Readers (working title)

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Tuesday, August 09, 2005

PACT: A Love Story

Jodi Picoult also wrote My Sister's Keeper, which I would recommend very much. This book was amazing.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty - they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends - so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born. So when midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There's a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris took from his father's cabinet - a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris has described. As its chapters unfold, alternating between an idyllic past and an unthinkable present, "The Pact" paints an indelible portrait of families in anguish...culminating in an astonishingly suspenseful courtroom drama as Chris finds himself on trial for murder.

Bergdorf Blondes

I wanted something light and easy after reading Harry Potter. This book reminded me of Sex and the City. It was cute, but I got annoyed with the main character at certain points. Author: Plum Sykes