How to Save a Life

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I enjoyed the ending but I did find the final conflict was wrapped up a bit too easily and conveniently! I also liked how this gave you actual CPR tips throughout. I was completely swept away by How To Save A Life which truly is a salve for the soul. It’s a beautiful book, full of drama, passion and truth: you’ll remember Joel, Kerry and Tim long after you finish reading their story'

All in all I couldn’t recommend this book more. I cared, I laughed and read the last few chapters with baited breath. Brilliant read. Although it was not what I expected, I really enjoyed the read. My expectation was an insider look but it was really a compilation of quotes for past and present cast and crew members. It was very interesting to see which cast member participated in the book, and who did not. I was a bit concerned that there might be other things left out when I realized that there were vital cast members not included in the list at the beginning, but Lynette Rice did a really good job at balancing a lot of different information and it did not feel like anything vital was left out. Iar pentru Joe, acest fapt îl face să simtă ca viața lui s-a sfârșit exact la finele anului 1999, "viața fără fotbal înseamnă moarte" A heart-stopping, heart-wrenching and heart-warming story that kept me reading well into the night. I loved it' How To Save A Life is a beautiful, poignant novel that is based on life and death decisions, and how being brave isn't always about the stuff that happens at that moment but often dealing with the aftermath.

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Atunci când o să am nouăzeci de ani și o să fiu cu un picior în groapă, cineva o să trebuiască să oprească aparatul ăsta sau o să-mi tot aplice șocuri să mă readucă la viață." A tip of the hat to Sara Zarr. She took a ridiculous premise and made me forget it. A woman and her high school daughter have just lost their husband/dad to a car accident and seek to complete his joint wish to adopt. Only instead of getting a baby from the adoption agency, they get the teen mom-to-be in the last weeks of her pregnancy. She's expected to have the baby, hand it over, then leave. Who does that? No one that I've ever heard of (not that I'm savvy on adoption practices). But I overlooked it. Or eventually forgot it. Jill and Mandy’s respective style and tone of narration are indicative of the type of people they are, often revealing more through implication than explicit “telling”. In this sense, both Jill and Mandy felt very real, and I cared about them and their situations. Even at Jill’s most thorny and closed off, her most deliberate slamming of figurative doors in the face of those who would reach out to her in her grief, I felt for her. Even at Mandy’s most conflicted and (seemingly) obtuse, my heart ached for her and I wanted her to find the love and life she deserved. Tim nel suo egoismo è detestabile (anche se non è cattivo), Kerry è la classica buona che viene calpestata (anche se non è sempre colpa sua), Joel è il figlio unico viziato che non viene punito abbastanza, ma sempre perdonato (pure lui non è mai volontariamente cattivo). I was completely hooked right from the very beginning and flew through it on only three days! It was emotional, heart-wrenching, yet beautiful.

I struggled with finding a song for this because it’s such a complex story and it’s not an easy one to pin down (as you can tell by this haphazard review). The cover makes me want to bundle up even though we are having a HOT fall day down here is Georgia (seriously, it was 80 degrees today). everyone in the main cast had some messy stuff going on here except for sandra oh, love that for her. and love that she got out on her own terms, with a happy ending for crisitna and followed this up with more successes. ellen could never relate. As the lives of these two girls blend, they are faced with new challenges and discover new things like the fear the future holds and the strength and support that comes from family.This isn’t really a low point but I couldn’t really think of one so I’m clutching right now. The ending was a little predictable but I think I would have been angry/upset if it hadn’t ended like that. Because? Because of the characterization. Zarr knows her way around a gray area, and the two "battling" girls -- pregnant Mandy and distrustful Jill -- are no treat, either of them. Which makes them a treat. If that makes sense. Does it?