"The Memory Keeper's Daughter"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

I've just started reading this one, and even though I've only read three chapters, I am enthralled!

It's a first novel by Kim Edwards...

I highly recommend it...


Edit to add: Have any of you read it? If so, your comments!

[Qanisqineq]

1. I read it

but unfortunately I don't remember much right now (too much stress lately). I did like it though!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. The doctor, his wife, the good baby boy...

And the defective daughter...

I am really captured by this one!

Sorry about all your stress...

[China_cat]

3. Yes, I've read it.

If you've started it, I'm surprised you haven't finished it. It was one of 'those' books for me.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I was able to put it down since it was late at night!

I've gotten more disciplined about getting my sleep these days...

[Mz Pip]

5. We're reading it

for our book club this month. I have it but haven't started it yet. Glad to hear it's hard to put down. I love books like that!

Mz Pip
:dem:

[latebloomer]

6. Everyone seems to love it

but I didn't enjoy it-- found it depressing.

[PassingFair]

12. I hated it. But I saw the "Lifetime" movie adaptation first....

It sucked mightily.

Maybe I would have enjoyed the book if
the movie had sucked less.

[Wheezy]

7. I'm anxious to hear how you liked it once you were done

I haven't read it but I'm very curious about it, Peggy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I have just today finished reading this...

And I have to say that I loved it.

The last 1/3 of the book, I just had to finish in one long stretch...

It is a very densely written, hugely colorful narrative!

It went places I had never imagined, and really took me out of myself...

It stretched my mind and soul as I had not expected...

There are several main characters, and the story weaves back and forth between them.

Very satisfying!

It is not an entirely happy story, but it is much like 'real life' in that way...

I was correct in my OP...highest recommendation!

[Mz Pip]

9. I finished it a couple of days ago

and I loved it. I was afraid it would be depressing but it really wasn't. I found it uplifting in that it shows that very few things in life are completely irreversible.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. My dear Mz Pip...

Yes, I got that message too...

And what a hopeful one it is!

[KC]

11. It was a wonderful

book.
I'm reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult right now and so far it is
really good too.

KC

[LibraLiz1973]

13. I read it

And I loved it.
So many layers to it... really wonderful