Nineteen Minutes
#48: Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult.
I remember hearing that this book had a controversial topic when it first came out, but by the time I started reading it (more than a year later), I had forgotten. I just knew that I wanted to read it. I have yet to read a book by Jodi Picoult that I did not like, and Nineteen Minutes did not disappoint in that respect.
Nineteen Minutes is about a school shooting in New Hampshire. What makes a high school student decide to take guns to school and kill ten people in the span of nineteen minutes? What would it have taken to stop him? Who is to blame? What will happen afterward? All of these questions are asked throughout the course of the book - though not all are answered.
Naturally, there is a twist near the end. When it comes to a book by Jodi Picoult, there is always a twist.
I remember hearing that this book had a controversial topic when it first came out, but by the time I started reading it (more than a year later), I had forgotten. I just knew that I wanted to read it. I have yet to read a book by Jodi Picoult that I did not like, and Nineteen Minutes did not disappoint in that respect.
Nineteen Minutes is about a school shooting in New Hampshire. What makes a high school student decide to take guns to school and kill ten people in the span of nineteen minutes? What would it have taken to stop him? Who is to blame? What will happen afterward? All of these questions are asked throughout the course of the book - though not all are answered.
Naturally, there is a twist near the end. When it comes to a book by Jodi Picoult, there is always a twist.
