Handle With Care

This book is driving me crazy! With Willow having OI, Events are stopped in their tracks at any moment! Meaning, anything can take a turn for the worse at a moment's notice. But, hey, I guess that's what happens when you're child has OI. Luckily, her family loves her the way she is and wouldn't have her be any other way. Willow, besides having OI, is a smart girl who has a pretty advanced brain at her age.
Recently in the Jodi Picout's Handle with Care , Charlotte and Sean (the parents) have taken their children to Disney land. This in itself was a major risks, for the rides could easily injure Willow, but they went anyways because they wanted their children to feel like regular kids. Unfortunately, Willow manages to break half her body slipping on a napkin at a restaurant. This leads to the family skipping their vacation and getting rushed to the hospital. And to make things worse, the parents are stuck in jail because the hospital there thinks Willow broke her bones because of child abuse, and Charlotte is placed in a foster home!
Now you must understand why this book simply tears me apart... something seems to always happen as soon as you put your guard down. Like right now, Charlotte is trying to let Willow experience ice skating! That situation right there is a recipe for disaster.... One of the reasons why is that Willow is as fragile as glass, and, well, putting her on ice isn't exactly the safest thing, don't you think?

Handle With Care

I've started a new book this quarter after finishing "Rebecca"--which by the way took a dramatic turn toward the end, revealing that Rebecca was not drowned, but murdered by her husband Maxim. Anyway, the new book is Jodi Picoult's "Handle With Care".
"Handle With Care" is about the struggles of a family with a daughter diagnosed with OI--osteogenesis imperfecta-- resulting in her having brittle bones that are extremely fragile. I could only imagine the kind of devotion this family gives their daughter with her having this problem. Luckily, the family has some pretty great friends for support. On the bright side, the daughter, Willow, is a perfectly normal girl otherwise, but I predict soon, something will occur that'll challenge this family's faith and unity. I only predict this because Jodi Picoult puts some sort of twist on each one of her stories... therefore, we'll soon be finding out.

SECOND QUARTER POSTS

Rebecca... a reading in progress

Right now in Rebecca , our heroine is about to leave the hotel she is staying in in England to accompany her employer on a trip to New York (possibly.... That is, I predict this trip for her will not take place). As she speaks of this new route her life is about to take , she goes on a tangent about change. Change is something different. For her, it's moving from place to place; whether it's from one room to another, or one country to another, change is change! But, what she says is that no matter how long you're there and why you're there, the moment you share with that place is yours to keep: no matter how significant or insignificant. This idea of change reminds me of The Catcher in the Rye . Holden being scared of change and trying to hold on(Holden's name is like "hold on") to all that is familiar and innocent to him. This change that Holden is going through is adolescence, and the change the main character emphasizes in the story is change from one place to another, when in reality, she is describing the change she is going through from being a school girl to becoming a real, sophisticated woman. Talk about coincidences! It seems change is a popular topic to write about on the account that everyone goes through it and it is easy for no one.
Well, hopefully our heroine will not have to really go through this unhappy change if Mr. De Winter has any feelings toward her (which I think he does). Will her pursuit for happiness succeed? We will soon find out!