When I Should Be Studying

Reasons For Reading This Book: I have liked a Jodi Picoult book in the past  Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult , and was looking for another book by her when I came across Small Great Things under her book list. I read the description and was intrigued. I happened to read this during Black History Month in 2024, but that was not intentional. Midway through reading it I mentioned to my mom that I was reading it and she told me she stopped reading it before she finished. I was liking it so far and personally had no reason to stop so I did not. Content of This Book: Ruth Jefferson has been labor and delivery nurse at the same hospital for twenty years. She is a widow and mother to a gifted teenage son. Her life is flipped upside down when she becomes the center of a criminal case relating to the death of a baby who was a patient at the hospital she works at. Per the parents request Ruth is removed from the care of baby Davis because of her race. Due to the lack or lack thereof ...

Reasons For Reading This Book: On the book and reading social media accounts that I follow I saw the cover of Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult circling around a while back and when I saw it at the local book sale I picked it up. I have had it on the shelf for months now and chose to read it to check it off my list, because I was traveling and did not want to take a library book with me and to be honest because I was too exhausted to think about looking, choosing, and picking up another book from the library. With this book I did not read the summary and had no idea what it was about when I started reading it. I dove, pun intended, head first into it.   Content of This Book: Diana has always had a plan for her life and has never really straid from it until she becomes stranded on the Glapolos Islands during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Back in New York City her boyfriend has left his role as a surgical resident to meet the demand of COVID patients in the ICU. He’s stuck in the thick of...