Ksenija,
You were and are missed! I think you lived in a particularly cool area of Tucson, perhaps this is just a temporary place while you figure out a sweet place for you to actually enjoy living in. I have videos on my flickr account. We'll have to do one just for Joe.
I read the book last night in one foul swoop. While it kept me reading, I must admit I felt very much the same as you with regard to the Hollywood nature of the story line and the inclusion of the Campbell/Julia thing. I wasn't surprised by the Kate request of Anna to let her die, nor by the epilepsy. Although now you mention it, I doubt that with the sort of seizure history that Campbell had he would have been allowed to drive. I used to have to get my neurologist to sign off on my driving every year for years after my seizures. So that doesn't make sense that he would be driving legally. We discussed the lack of voice that Kate has in the narrative other than at the beginning. How Anna's narrative was much more mature, not realistic for a 13 year old, than her talking.
I agree about Sara. I think it would be easy to become tunnel visioned about the one sick child in that situation and it rather seemed like a slippery rock, once they were willing to conceive for the cord blood, which I could definitely see doing, it was just one poke here, one poke there, one procedure and then another until they or at least she couldn't see the difference.
What was the deal with Jesse and the arson? I was sure his homeless buddy was going to turn him in. It seemed like the partial development of another story.
"Why is it that no one ever gave up on Kate, yet they let Anna go so fast? How were they sure that they couldn't do anything for her?"
It was more cut and dry? It wasn't their decision, but Campbell's?
It was Bridget, Erin, Annalise (spelling?) and myself with our respective children.
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Thanks for the response! So I went to the bookstore and read the plots of all her other books, and they are mostly courtroom dramas, murder-suicides and the like. This, oddly, made me feel better. As I mentioned once, to me, books are real life. When Anna died in the book, she was a cool girl I knew who was dead. But when I discovered that this woman kills off people in every book, somehow it wasn't as real any more. Still, I admire what she does, writing about controversial topics and all. I just realized yesterday that she doesn't get into a debate about stem cell research at all, doesn't bring religion or science into it at all, but just tells a story, which is admirable, I think.
Anyway, I hope you all had a good time!
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