With beautifully crafted words and uniquely real characters in seventeen skillfully written fiction novels, Jodi Picoult has definitely deserved all her success.
While her journey began at Princeton, where she studied creative writing, she published two short stories in Seventeen magazine. Jodi worked numerous jobs after graduation, ranging from technical writing for a Wall Street brokerage firm to teaching eighth grade students.
Jodi then married Tim Van, whom she met at Princeton, and then preceded to craft, Songs of the Humpback Whale. This first novel was created while she was pregnant with her first child and was only the beginning of her very thriving writing career.
Throughout her years as a novelist, Jodi has won several awards including: the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association, the Book Browse Diamond Award, a lifetime achievement award for fiction from the Romance Writers of America, Cosmo’s Fearless Fiction Award 2007, Waterstone’s Author of the Year in the UK, a Vermont Green Mountain Book Award, a Virginia Reader’s Choice Award, the Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award, and a Maryland Black-Eyes Susan Award. Along with her seventeen novels, she also wrote five issues of Wonder Woman for DC Comics, and her novel My Sister’s Keeper was made into a movie by New Line Cinema. The Pact, Plain Truth, and The Tenth Circle, were also adapted into television movies.
Jodi Picoult knew her desire of writing and followed that dream all through college and beyond. Now look at all she has accomplished. Her story proves that a solid college education can certainly go a long way!http://www.jodipicoult.com/
When you find your perfect match, life can’t get any better. You fit so well together that you share most of the same views and ideas of the world. Then naturally you would fall deeply and madly in love, plan a wedding, and then start a family. That’s the way it always works.
In Emily Giffin’s Baby Proof, this is exactly what happened to Claudia Parr. She met her perfect match, Ben, on a blind date, no less. What made him even more perfect was the fact that he shared the same views on children as she did. Neither one of them wanted any.
Two years after Claudia and Ben’s marriage, when they are on a ski trip with their mutual friends, Annie and Ray, Annie announces that she is eight months pregnant. Even though Claudia should be happy for her friends, she can’t help feeling betrayed knowing that they had felt the same way about children, and now, here they are, having a child of their own.
Ben, on the other hand, couldn’t be happier for them. Then he talks to Claudia about having a baby. That throws Claudia for a loop and she asks him if he wants to be her husband more than he wants a baby. The look in his eyes tells her that he really wants a baby. Slowly, their marriage falls apart.
The two go their separate ways in divorce, Ben with his new girlfriend and Claudia with Richard, her boss.
Despite Claudia trying to move on and deal with the fact that Ben has found another woman already, she can’t shake the depression that creeps up on her every once in a while. She knows she still does not want children whatsoever. But she misses her Ben.
Although Richard is handsome, wealthy and perfect in most women’s eyes, to Claudia, he is no Ben, and they will never work out. She can’t help thinking that maybe she made the wrong decision, and she can’t stop worrying about Ben’s new female friend.
Baby Proof is entertaining, heartfelt, and thought-provoking. Emily Giffin’s characters are so realistic and Claudia is the ideal heroine. This novel is definitely appropriate anyone who has ever loved and had to make sacrifices for that love.
With beautifully crafted words and uniquely real characters in seventeen skillfully written fiction novels, Jodi Picoult has definitely deserved all her success.
