Lori M. (lormac) reviewed on 4/3/2011 + 120 more book reviews

Another book club winner insofar as we actually talked about the book all night and it will still come up in conversation. This book will haunt you, whether you are a parent or not. An interesting fact: The author wrote this book while she was trying to decide whether she wanted to have a child. She was interested in the fact that much of the commentary about the Columbine massacre involved blaming the parents. Her point was that when you have a child, you open the door of your life to a total stranger and that door will never be closed - your life is entwined with the life of an individual who you do not know at all when you forge this lifelong bond. She decided that having a child involves a leap of faith she did not want to make. This book loses the final star for me because the narrative pace is irregular - it starts off extrenely slow and by the end, it almost moves too fast. It is hard to keep picking up for the first third and then becomes impossible to put down.

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