Book Review: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

A book review? I hear you ask.... Yes. A book review. Hey, I don't read many these days. Hmm...wonder why not.

I have always been an avid reader, and it's only been in the last year that my paperback consumption has decreased sharply due to p0rn other reading materials.

However, when spending one's Easter long weekend with extended family, it's not exactly socially acceptable (around here anyway) to be glued to one's laptop or iPhone constantly. So, I read a book this weekend.

This was not just any book. This book consumed me. Since the Twilight Saga, I have read the Hunger Games and Water for Elephants. That's about it. And this book is as all-consuming as they were:

"This stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love."

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I highly recommend this book. It will make you smile, gasp, cry - and in parts, put your fingers over your eyes and read through the cracks. It is beautifully written and cryptic. I have been talking about it (and been buried in it so much) that I have had two other people write down it's details and promise to read it also this weekend.

If you're looking for something to read, to come down off your WFE high, go for it. You won't regret it.

I hope you all had a lovely Easter long weekend. Or just a lovely weekend, depending on where you are :-)