"Handle With Care" by Jodi Picoult

Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Disturbing but good, thought provoking like most of Picoult's books. I loved how she took recipes and used that terminology to relate to life. For example:

"Tempering: to heat slowly and gradually. Most of the time when we talk about a temper, we mean a qwuickness to anger. In cooking, though, tempering is about making something stronger by taking your time. You temper eggs by adding a hot liquid in small increments. The idea is to raise their temperature without causing them to curdle. The result is a stirred custard that can be used as a dessert sauce or incorporated into a complex dessert. Here's something interesting: the consistency of the finished product has nothing to do with the type of liquid used to heat it. The more eggs you use, the thicker and richer the final product will be. Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome."

I like also how she wordsmithed the first chapter -

"Things break all the time. Glass, and dishes, and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever."I don't believe I've ever thought of the word breaks in all those different waves.

I've told you a little about the book without really telling you anything. It is a story about choices, and how those choices affect our lives and the lives of others. About priorities, and are yours and mine in the right places. If you read it, call me up so we can talk about it!

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