Post #2

*Do not read this if you want to read My Sister's Keeper in the future.

For my second entry, I decided to write about My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. I read this book last year, but I am currently rereading it. It is interesting to read the book and know what will happen, because everything is thrown into a different light. At times it is easier to understand, like in the beginning when it switches from character to character, because you already know the way that the separate characters talk and how they feel. I'm not at the end yet, but I am predicting that it will be less interesting and suspenseful because I know that Kate is the one to ask Anna not to donate the kidney and that Anna will die in the car crash. This book makes me genuinely sad when I read it, because there are so many decisions (moral and logical) to make and all of them are extremely difficult.

I can relate somewhat to the book, because when I was three my mom was hospitalized for 6 months and it changed all of my families' lives. I don't think any member of my family has ever had to donate anything, so in that aspect I can't imagine how difficult Anna's life must have been. I hate hospitals, personally, and I would never want to spend the amount of time she had to in them. I do know about having to make sacrifices though, helping out with my mom having to be in a wheelchair. Not a day goes by where I don't pray for her to get better so that she can walk on her own, because I want the best for her. (Just like Kate's family wants the best for her.)

Overall, I love this book!

Stacey