jodi picoult has been one of my favourite author, when i picked up one of his international best- selling book My Sister's Keeper (i've lost that book..i remembered i lent it to someone, but it never come back). it is a very good book. in fact, for me, every book written by jodi picoult is good, hehe, because i like her style of writing.all of her books are fiction, and yet, the story-line are things that happened in our daily lives.
recently, i finished reading another of her book.. Nineteen Minutes.
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it..
that's how she starts the book..
and in nineteen minutes, something can happen and change the rest of your life..good or bad..
the part that makes me think..
When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like. (page 169)
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