Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult

What would you do if one day your whole world was turned upside down? What would you do if you discovered you’d been lied to for the majority of your life by the person you trusted the most in the world? What would you do if you found out you weren’t really who you thought you were? These are just some of the questions that are touched upon in Jodi Picoult’s novel entitled “Vanishing Acts.” I’ve been gradually working my way through her collection of novels ever since reading one of her first ones back in the early summer. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every single one of her novels so far and I’m glad to say that this offering was no exception. The ...  Read the complete review

Jodi Picoult is particularly good at making readers ask themselves questions about morality. It's her hallmark, and one that she is very gifted at, exploring situations that others writers shy away from, or fail miserably at. She is amazing. When you read her books, you get to feel that apart from researching her subjects well, she has an uncanny knack of understanding human nature to the extent that the characters roll of the page as real people. Having read her more popular books that touched on subjects such as an infant being found dead in an Amish Barn and the moral questions that followed the event (Plain Truth), and a book about a young girl who was ...  Read the complete review

After reading 'The Pact' in high school, I have steadily gone through the majority of Jodi Picoult's books. Reading English at university, I found her novels a welcome reprieve from the heavier tomes I was assigned - not too complex, but also not too brain-dead. I liked how she incorporated legal and medical anomalies into each work, as it made me feel as though I was learning as I read - in an easy to digest kind of way! 'Vanishing Acts' is the most recent book of hers that I have read. It was a nice break from her 'medical case/Sophie's Choice'esque books, in the vein of 'My Sister's Keeper' and 'Handle With Care', but can definitely be classified with ...  Read the complete review

~ Story ~ It takes two people to make a lie work. The person who tells it and the one who believes it. Why would a man who loved his wife - so much that in the quarter century since her death, he hasn't found someone to take her place - why wouldn't he have a record of the life he'd had with her, of the baby they'd made? Raised in snowy New Hampshire by her widowed father, Delia Hopkins has led a wonderful life. Andrew Hopkins has been both a wonderful father and mother figure to Delia and they are closer than any father and daughter could be. With her perfect father, devoted fiancé, precious daughter, and a job she loves finding missing ...  Read the complete review

Jodi Picoult Vanishing Acts Delia Hopkins is the main character of this book by Jodi Picoult who works along side her search dog finding missing people and loved ones for people from all types of places. Living in the New Hampshire area Delia is happy with life as it is even though she still lives with her father and her relationship with Eric, the father of her child Sophie, is not as steady as she would like it to be a. Sophie however is the pride and joy of Delia’s life and she couldn’t imagine being without her. After a series of memory recalls of random things that simply couldn’t have taken place in Delia’s life she ...  Read the complete review