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Book Review of Nineteen Minutes

Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Focus on school shooting, of course life changing for all. Technique: intricate flashbacks and 1st person examination of the minutiae of the peoples' challenges living life and coping with real or perceived hardships. Very long in the middle. Some characters (like real people) very self absorbed, with "poor pitiful me" attitudes and few coping skills (like real people). But I got tired of reading about it. Way too much drama. I skipped about 100 pages and picked up the last 20 and feel like I only missed filler. Maybe I've moved on from Picoult as this flashback technique seems to be her main writing style, and it can become tedious.