YA Buddy Readers' Corner ♥ discussion

For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty-- they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born.

So when midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There's a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris took from his father's cabinet-- a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris has described.

Excited to start! I've just got to get a copy from Half-Price Books first.

Haha haven't even bought it yet.

Mine's sitting on my shelf still.

I got a crapton of Jodi Picoult books at a used bookstore for super cheap.

I just read The Storyteller by her and loved it. It would be neat to read all of her books. I think I've read 12 of them so far.

Yeah I've got a lot too XD Maybe we should do a few of them?

I own My Sister's Keeper
19 Minutes
The Storyteller
House Rules
Handle With Care
Sing You Home
Between the Lines
Off the Page
Second Glance
Picture Perfect

I only have Vanishing Acts,
The Storyteller,
Plain Truth,
and Small Great Things with me.
Sing You Home,
19 Minutes,
My Sister's Keeper,
and Handle With Care are at my parents' house but if you guys wanted to read those i'd get them from the library. I've also read Mercy,
House Rules,
The Tenth Circle,
and Salem Falls.

I won't be able to read them until late August/September XD But if you guys wanted to do one of the ones I don't have then that'd be appreciated :p

Maddison wrote: "I won't be able to read them until late August/September XD But if you guys wanted to do one of the ones I don't have then that'd be appreciated :p"

Sounds good. Maybe Songs of the Humpback Whale or Change of Heart or Second Glance?

I think I've already read Change of Heart and Second Glance. I really can't remember them though XD

How about Songs of the Humpback Whale? I'm just asking early so I can try to get it when I buy The Pact.

I'm not going to read it with you, because I don't own it, and don't have time to fit in another book this big before September XD

Alright, no worries.

Thanks XD I've just got so much reading to do.

Still starting today?

Up to you :p

I'm behind on my buddy reads, but I'll read this as soon as I can.

Haha I'm behind too, so there's no rush at all :p

Let's all just read when we can to make it easier on everyone.

Haha if we all wait around for me I'll never get it read :p I'm totally fine with this taking a long time though, like really spreading it out, just so that we can actually read it.

I read at others' pace, so when you start I'll start, and I'll stop when you do.

Reading when we can sounds good!

As long as you guys post a lot of updates about where you're up to, then I can try and keep up :D

I'm doing pretty well at keeping up for now XD Just got a few pages of all of my buddy reads to do. Hopefully I can do all of those today!

My problem is that I just got a hold of a book for a BR that started on the first. And it's 700 pages!

So you want to put this one off? I can wait for you to start Abby :) No problems there! Definitely lowers my stress levels!

Because this book isn't exactly short.

We don't need to. I'll get to it when I can.

Awesome :) I'll get to it when you do haha.

I'll start whenever you guys do. I'm dividing my attention between two books now anyways.

Sweet.

Part I: (view spoiler)[It's really sad that Emily's death is tearing these two families apart. And is Chris telling the truth about this pact? Because it doesn't seem like he actually wanted to die. (hide spoiler)]

Also, I noticed that Jordan McAfee is a character across multiple Picoult novels. Cool easter egg!

Oh really? So the all kind of connect?

Wow you read fast.

43%: (view spoiler)[You can never truly know how somebody ended up in jail until they open up. So sad that what Stephen did was in accident. (hide spoiler)]

End of Part II: (view spoiler)[Oh poor Kate... she feels ignored and should,
since her parents completely forgot Christmas! (hide spoiler)]

Okay I have no idea when/if I'll even read this one yet :/

Maddison wrote: "Okay I have no idea when/if I'll even read this one yet :/"

Sometimes we just can't get to every book. I know I get overly ambitious some months. It's a great one though, so definitely read it when you do get the chance.

Yeah I know, all of her books are amazing.

Finished: (view spoiler)[I honestly find it a bit unbelievable that Chris was found not guilty. He should at least have been found guilty for assisting suicide. (hide spoiler)]