a review of a new lablit

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Interesting review of Picoult's book Lone Wolf by Stephen Caplan http://www.lablit.com/article/738

I'll admit that I haven't been a fan of Picoult's books that I've read (maybe because I feel the urge to do some fact checking about some of the diseases/things she writes about?) but this makes me think that maybe I should give it a go again... Stephen writes very convincing

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It's a very interesting book! I know nothing about wolves, and I think that Ms. Picoult did a lot of research in order to be able to make so many observations and comparison between wolves and humans. I've discovered that she wrote a lablit book as far back as 1992, called "Songs of the Humpback Whale," about an oceanographer and his family. I'm about tpo begin it tonight!

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huh, looking forward hearing about that one too. I read My sister's Keeper and The tenth circle; the first is about kidney transplant/ethics of making a baby with the same genetic makeup as sibling, the second is more finicky to describe... I might have picked "the wrong ones to read" or maybe it was linked to the book club discussions afterwards? Or that I got a similar feeling as reading The pilot's wife <- Oprah's book club.... Dunno, I'll see if Lone Wolf is available on Kindle (my new toy, also known as "saving the world and my house from more books and paper - now only for those books I know I want to have in the bookcase" )

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For the record, "The Pilot's Wife" is Anita Shreve, not Jodi Picoult. And I happen to agree--generally I love Shreve's novels, but didn't care for "The Pilot's Wife."

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I should've added that, both The pilot's wife and Tenth circle were chosed for Oprah's book club .... that's why I made a connection in my thinking. I knew it wasn't Picoult, thanks for the real name of the author. Have to admit I haven't tried anything else by Shreve, I thought that book was her "genre" but I may be a little harsh in my judgement.

For now I'm anxiously awaiting the postman delivery of "The American Plague" by Molly Caldwell Crosby, about the Yellow Fever epidemic (main focus on Memphis in 1878) and the future and evolution of the virus. Looks very promising!!