Sing You Home (↑)

Wow is all I can say. I really can't expect anything less from Jodi Picoult honestly, but this book amazes me.  It brings up two extremely sensitive topics: gay rights and religion. This book is Sing You Home the newest book by Jodi Picoult. It was able to make me angry by the religious views expressed. It allows one to realize how the Bible really can be interpreted any way a person wants if they read it a certain way. It's frustrating though that people can't seem to accept that people who are homosexual are born that way, and that they don't have a choice who they fall in love with, and that although they need help to reproduce they can raise 'normal' children, and that no amount of influence can make a child a homosexual or heterosexual. But of course, these are the same people who don't believe in evolution and that scientists planted the dinosaur bones to 'prove' that theory. But anyway...

This novel is about a couple who went through fertility treatments, and unfortunately were not able to conceive a child. The last time they tried, it ended tragically, and the husband decided he had had enough and wanted a divorce. It proceeded from there where the wife fell in love with a female school counsellor and they got married. They decided they wanted children, and when they went to gain the consent of the ex-husband, to their detriment he said no. The husband had joined a church and 'got religion', and a lawsuit ensued. This novel follows the lawsuit, and the reasons why and why not the homosexual couple should have the embryos. Of course there's a twist at the end, and I suppose it is what you're expecting, but still a twist nonetheless.

This book is definitely worth the read! Anyway not sure what I'll be reading next, but until then, Happy Reading!

Stuck in the Middle (↓)

This book took me forever to finish, not because it was a hard read, but rather because I a) didn't have much time to read and b) I really wasn't interested in reading it. The book I finished is: Stuck in the Middle by Virginia Smith. I thought it would be just a normal chick-lit book, a story of a woman 'finding herself and some romance along the way'. It was like that, however, a lot of religion was thrown in there too. She discovered how God works in mysterious ways, etc. It's a fluff book, and honestly, I don't think it really deserves a full synopsis only because I'll never read it again haha. As long as I have it written down somewhere that I read it, that's all I care about.

So, if you're interested in chick-lit religion reads, choose this one, but other than that, it was a blah read. I'm going to be reading a Jodi Picoult book next, so until then, happy reading!