Harvesting the Heart: A Novel | Jodi Picoult | Very Enjoyable--Although Some Issues Regarding Kids

Harvesting the Heart: A Novel | Jodi Picoult | Strongly recommended!

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	Harvesting the Heart: A Novel Jodi Picoult Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 95 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Very Enjoyable--Although Some Issues Regarding Kids

I really loved this book...as I have loved all of Jodi Picoult's novels. Paige and Nicholas are both great characters whom one can imagine knowing in real life. However, I had a few issues with the book regarding Paige's painful breastfeeding (NB: when breastfeeding hurts, it means you're doing it wrong... speak to the La Leche person--don't just say everything is O.K.). The author also has Max eating solids at 3 months--which is about 3 months too early. Another issue I found was of timing. Paige meets and married Nicholas during his third year of medical school. The major part of the book takes place when they've been married 8 years... and he is now acting director of cardiothoracic surgery. He wouldn't have even finished his residency and fellowship by then. (1 more year of med school + 5 year surgical residency + 2-1/2 yr cardiothoracic residency + 1 yr transplant fellowship). With all of this, still loved the book a lot.... just worried that women who haven't had kids yet would assume that breastfeeding is really painful--which it isn't (or shouldn't be).

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Strongly recommended!

Another well-written, emotionally-engaging book by Jodi Picoult. Although slow moving in the beginning, the tempo picked up considerably as the story moved forward. Paige was a likeable protagonist, and I related closely to how overwhelmed she felt after the birth of her son, especially with a husband who was so clueless and unsympathetic. Without giving the ending away, I truly appreciated the way the situation played out and resolved itself.

heartache

I thought that this book was very good. It described the loneliness and confusion of not knowing and understanding oneself and one's origin. It is about love and forgivness; patience and acceptance; and loving oneself fully. I liked how the book focused on many diverse issues, such as socioeconomic class, gender roles, separation and divorce, and the life cycle of a marriage and a family. I did not like the ending as much. I thought that the ending could have been more descriptive of the chracters' lives, but instead, it seemed to have stopped abruptly.

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another great Jodi Picoult novel

I discovered Jodi Picoult a few months ago and have been systematically reading all her novels. Harvesting the Heart is one of her earlier works and doesn't have the "punch" at the end like many of her later novels do but I found this book another one that I couldn't put down with characters that "move" into your heart and head and stay awhile. A great read.

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