Picoult, Jodi. Nineteen Minutes. Washington Square Press: New York, 2007
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult begins with a girl named Josie Cormier going to school on a normal day, to then realize it would be a day that would change the rest of her life. A boy named Peter Houghton who had been picked on since grade school, was finally fed up with all of the bullying and went to school with four guns, planning to gun down the ones who had given him such a hard time. Throughout the story, Picoult goes back and forth from before the shooting and after it. Peter is on trial for ten counts of murder and nineteen counts of attempted murder, and his attorney Jordan McAfee is there to try and win over the jury to prove that Peter’s actions were due to something similar to post traumatic stress disorder- in terms of bullying.
Compared to Picoult’s other stories written, Nineteen Minutes seems to convey a very good message, but it was a lot more harder to get into rather than some of the other page turners she has written. It is interesting how Picoult manages to fit in almost two whole stories other than the school shooting. Josie Cormier deals with her first love and all of the fights and make-ups that come along with first love, and how to deal with her mother who typically works all the time, now wanting to cater to her every need since the shooting occurred. I would recommend this book to only a certain sum of people, but if you are an easily bored reader, I’d look for something a little more action filled.
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This book seems like it would be a good book to read. I like the way that you described the book's plot without giving away the ending. And i like how you let people know that its slow at first and warned the certain few who wouldnt like it! Good job!
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