Reading Material

I discovered a new author this month, and that always makes me happy.

Actually, Jodi Picoult isn't a new author at all; she's written ten novels, but she's new to me. I was wandering through Barnes & Noble a month or two ago and the title "The Pact" caught my eye. I pulled it off the shelf, flipped to the back cover, read the description, and was psyched to take it home and start reading it. Then I looked at the cover and saw that it had a circle on it proclaiming "Soon to be a Lifetime Movie."

That was almost enough to put me off it.

Lifetime for Women is not my favorite television viewing - given a chance, in fact, it's not my viewing at all. But what the hell, the back of the book sounded promising, so I bought it anyway.

Loved it. Absolutely loved it. Long story short, I've since read two other books by Picoult and bought another, and I'm thoroughly enjoying her material and her writing style. And that means I will no doubt be tearing through the rest of her stuff in short order.

And it all just goes to show you that you can't judge a book by its cover just because somebody at the Lifetime Channel screwed up and finally bought something decent to make a movie out of. That said, the movie'll probably suck.