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Saturday, March 06, 2010
Picoult-a-thon: Day... whatever
I, um, sort of stopped paying attention to pages and I'm almost done with the book now so I had to stop and update before I finished the whole thing. This reminds me of how I feel when I have a package of something delicious sitting next to me while I'm studying and I look up from my textbook to find that the package has somehow emptied itself while I was engrossed in a world full of trigonometric identities or Deaf cultural values, except without the Oreo chocolate in the corners of my mouth. (Note: I have not done one single problem of my trig homework for the weekend yet. Good thing it's a rainy Saturday, right?)
Can I just break up the flow here to say how much I love books? Ever since I was a little girl I've been fascinated by the realization that there are entire worlds and lives and emotions, transformed into ink and printed on paper squeezed between two covers, just sitting there waiting for us to open them. It used to make me a little dizzy, to look at all the rows and rows of worlds in the library. And now, here I am, thirty-five years old and very much a citizen of the Real Grown-Up World with taxes and children and jobs and responsibilities, and stuff, and I am itching to open the book that's sitting mere yards from me, to find out what happened. Even though nothing really did.
SPOILERS GALORE if you haven't read this book yet. Read it first; it won't take any longer than polishing off a few dozen bags of Oreos.
OK. So now the trial's in full swing. My love-loathe relationship for Picoult is never more present than it is during the court trials that inevitably take up the last 150 pages of her books. On the one hand, this is where the rubber meets the road, and you're finding out what happens and watching characters' reactions to things. On the other hand, that's a whole lot of talking and a considerable amount of either a) fresh infodump or b) reiterations of stuff we already knew from before, and that can get tedious. That aside, at this point I can't help but think that Picoult is setting us up to think that Jacob killed Jess. He keeps dodging around the issue, and there was that "I didn't hurt her"/"I didn't mean to hurt her" bit. Which, if I'm right about that, would mean according to the laws of Picoultdynamics that Jacob couldn't have done it (in his mind, remember, he "hurt" her when he dragged her body down the stairs), and maybe Kat was right all along and it was Theo... or Jess actually did just die of a fall, which is where I'm leaning now. So yes, you read that right: a last-minute change in my PPCSTE prediction. I hope I don't come to regret it.
And now if you'll excuse me there's this really important trial going on on my end table and I have to go pay attention to it.
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