Review - Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

Title: Plain Truth
Author: Jodi Picoult
Pages: 464
Release Date: October 25^th 2004
Format: Paperback
Buy it: Amazon
Add it: Goodreads
 
Synopsis: From the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm.
 
The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide -- and for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep inside the world of those who live "plain," Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. And as she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within -- to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past re-enters her life.
 
My Review: I originally read this book about 10 years ago and even though the plot is sad I enjoyed it.
 
Katie had been sneaking away from her Amish home with the help of her mother to visit her brother who had left the Amish community  and these she meets a boy and they grow close and do what any normal 18 year old does and they sleep together, this results in Katie getting pregnant but she doesn’t tell anyone about the pregnancy and pretends that it never happened.
 
One night she goes into labour and she sneaks off into the barn and gives birth but this baby does not survive and Katie hides the baby, this has the police getting involved and 18 year old Katie is charged with murdering her newborn baby and it is Ellie job to prove that Katie never killed her child.
 
Currently Reading: Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin
Read in 2022: 15/40

Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 Books I Enjoyed That Are Outside of My Comfort Zone (i.e., a genre you don’t typically read or subject matter you’re not usually drawn to)

1. Facing up to Fatherhood by Miranda Lee
2. Please Let Me Go by Caitlin Spencer
3. Girl Alone by Cathy Glass
4. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
5. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
6. The Reluctant Fiancee by Jacqueline Baird
7. Their Wedding Day by Emma Darcy
8. The Groom’s Daughter by Natalie Fox
9. Falling For The Doctor by Bobby Hutchinson
10. Daddy’s Little Secret by Tina Davis

Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 Books I’ve Read That I’d Like In My Personal Library (perhaps you checked it out, borrowed it from a friend, received it for review, etc. and want to own it yourself.) (Submitted by Annemieke @ A Dance with Books)

1. Heaven by V. C. Andrews (Mums)
2. Rain by V. C. Andrews (Library)
3. Willow by V. C. Andrews (Mums)
4. Kisses From Hell by Kristen Cast etel (Library)
5. Fae Queen by Lynn Landes (Library)
6. Girl Alone by Cathy Glass (Sisters)
7. Hunted by Mary Duke (Review)
8. Please, Let Me Go by Caitlin Spencer (Sisters)
9. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult (Tutors)
10. Falling For The Doctor by Bobby Hutchinson (Library)

Top 10 Tuesday

I didn't like this weeks Top 10 Tuesday topic so I turned it into a Top 10 Freebie: Books/Series I’m defiantly going to re-read.

1. Evermore by Alyson Noel
2. Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
3. Unremembered by Jessica Brody
4. The Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen
5. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
6. The Vampire Stalker by Allison Van Diepen
7. Die For Me by Amy Plum
8. Heist Society by Ally Carter
9. Firebird by Alice La Roux
10. Facing up to Fatherhood by Miranda Lee

Top 10 Tuesday

This weeks Top 10 Tuesday is a mix of both of these topics, Top Ten Book To Movie Adaptations I'm Looking Forward To or Ten Book To Movie Adaptations I Still Need To Watch

1. Saving Zoe - Alyson Noel
2. Immortal Series - Alyson Noel
3. Unremembered Series - Jessica Brody
4. 52 Reasons To Hate My Father - Jessica Brody
5. Wintercraft - Jenna Burtenshaw
6. Papertown - John Green
7. Fault in the Stars - John Green
8. If I Stay - Gayle Forman
9. The Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead
10. My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult

Monday's Movie Corner

Monday's Movie Corner is something I don't know if I have made it up or if someone else has has started it, it is going to be a weekly meme where I pick a book (it could be a movie already) and I list the book characters and then put who I would cast in that role as that character and what they have been in.

My Sisters Keeper is being made into a movie: (I haven't seen the movie yet as I loved the book to much and I know that the ending is different in the movie so it makes me want to watch it less but I do know that none of these characters are in the movie cast)

Anna (Main character) - Paige Hyland from Dance Moms
Kate (Anna's sister) - Bridget Mendler from Lemonade Mouth
Sarah (Anna's mum) - Melissa Joan Hart from Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Melissa and Joey
Brian (Anna's dad) - James Thornton from Emmerdale
Jesse (Anna's brother) - Ross Lynch from Austen and Ally
Campbell Alexander (Anna's Lawyer) - Andrew Keegan from 10 Things I Hate About You
Julia Romano (Anna's Guardian Ad Litem) - Camilla Arfwedson from Holby City
Zanne (Anna's Aunt) - Marnette Patterson from Charmed
Dr. Chance (Kate's Doctor) - Alfonso Ribeiro from The Fresh Prince
Judge Desalvo (The Judge) - Amanda Donohoe from L.A Law
Taylor Ambrose (Kate's Crush) - Cody Sprouse from The Suite Life of Zac and Cody

Top 10 Tuesday

Hosted by Broke and the Bookish

Top Eight Books That Will Make You Cry

1. Facing Up To Fatherhood - Miranda Lee
2. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
3. Charlotte's Web - E.B.White
4. Goodnight Mr. Tom - Michelle Magorian
5. The Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
6. Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter
7. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
8. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis

Top 10 Tuesday

Hosted by Broke and the Bookish

This Weeks Top 10 Tuesday is Top 10 books I would Love to see as a movie or T.V. show

1. Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
2. Unremembered by Jessica Brody
3. Immortal Series by Alyson Noel
4. Revenants by Amy Plum
5. Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen
6. Evernight by Claudia Gray
7. Heist Society by Ally Carter
8. Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter
9. Plain Truth Jodi Picoult
10. 52 Reasons to Hate my Father by Jessica Brody

Top 10 Tuesday

Hosted by Broke and the Bookish

This weeks Top 10 is Top 10 books that I wish were taught in schools.

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2. Lady Macbeth's Daughter by Lisa M. Klein
3. The Prime of Miss Jean Brody by Murial Sparks
4. Charlotte's Webb by E. B. White
5. Matilda by Roald Dahl
6. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
7. The Karma Club by Jessica Brody
8. The Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
9. The Fault in are Stars by John Green
10. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

Top 10 Tuesday

This weeks Top 10 Tuesday is book's to movie adaptations

1. Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia
2. My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult
3. The Hunger Games - Susanne Collins
4. Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
5. Twilight Saga - Stephanie Meyer
6. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
7. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronté
8. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
9. Tilly Trotter - Catherine Cookson
10. Snow White and The Huntsman - Lily Blake

Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 books to be read in a day.

1. The whole series of Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
2. The whole series of Riley Bloom by Alyson Noel
3. Matilda by Roald Dahl
4. 52 Reasons to Hate my Father by Jessica Brody
5. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
6. The Vampire Stalker by Allison Van Diepen
7. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
8. Facing up to Fatherhood by Miranda Lee
9. Ash by Malinda Lo
10. Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen

Top 10 Tuesday

This weeks top 10 is top 10 books to TV or Movies adaptations

1. Twilight Saga - Stephanie Meyer 
2. Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling 
3. My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult 
4. Nikki Heat series - Richard Castle 
5. The Vampire Diaries - L. J. Smith 
6. Snow White and the Huntsman - Lily Blake
7. The Worst Witch - Jill Murphy
8. The Sleepover Club - Rose Impey
9. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
10. The Hunger Games - Susanne Collins

I haven't read half of these but I have seen the TV series or the movies and the books are on my to read eventually list if I haven't read them yet.

Top 10 Tuesday

Today's topic is Top 10 Books I plan on re-reading one day:
(If a book is a part of a series I'm just picking my favourite book from that series)

1. Wintercraft: Blackwatch by Jenna Burtenshaw
2. Immortal Series: Evermore by Alyson Noel (Very hard choice)
3. Unremembered by Jessica Brody
4. A Vampire Stalker by Allison Van Diepen
5. Heat Wave by Richard Castle
6. The Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen
7. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
8. Facing up to Fatherhood by Miranda Lee
9. Evernight by Claudia Gray
10. Rain by V. C. Andrews

In My Mailbox January 2013

This month I have been busy buying books and I got myself a few Kindle books.

Books I bought this month:

1. Hot Blooded - Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie
2. The Iron King - Julie Kagawa
3. Insatiable - Meg Cabot
4. The Selection - Kiera Cass
5. Unremembered (ARC) - Jessica Brody
6. Love Aubrey - Suzanne LaFleur
7. Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
8. Cinder - Marissa Meyer
9. The Salem Witch Society - K. N. Shields
10. Fateful - Claudia Gray
11. My Soul to Take - Rachel Vincent
12. My Soul to Keep - Rachel Vincent
13. Wake - Amanda Hocking
14. Lullaby - Amanda Hocking
15. Blue Angel - Logan Belle
16. Fallen Angel - Logan Belle
17. Naked Angel - Logan Belle

Books I got for the Kindle:

1. Her Mr Perfect Christmas - Melissa Jolley
2. The Proposal - Diane Craver
3. The Snow Globe - Kristin Harmel
4. Third Time Lucky - Deborah Cooke
5. Double Trouble - Deborah Cooke
6. One More Time - Deborah Cooke
7. All or Nothing - Deborah Cooke
8. The Pink Rose: Secret Love and Betrayal - Alicia Roberts
9. Christmas In Venice - Meadow Taylor
10. Compel - Penelope Fletcher
11. Enchant - Penelope Fletcher
12. Summon - Penelope Fletcher
13. Darkness Falls - Jessica Sorensen
14. Shadowmagic - John Lenahan
15. Wait for Me - Elisabeth Naughton
16. Before the Rose Petal Beach - Dorothy Koomson
17. The witches of Santa Anna (1 - 7) Lauren Barnholdt

I bought a ton of books this month and there is probably 3/4 on the whole list that I will actually read this year. I NEED to stop buying books.

Top 10 Tuesday

This weeks Top 10 Tuesday is: Top 10 authors I'm thankful for and why.

This is a really hard one because I have many favourite authors and I like them all for different reasons.

1. Jenna Burtenshaw - I am thankful for Jenna because her book Wintercraft was the reason I decided to start my blog so if it wasn't for Jenna I would have never  made my blog. Jenna was also the first author I interviewed for my blog (Read interview here), and the Wintercraft series was the first series that I have ever finished. I am also thankful because she didn't kill Silas Dane in the Wintercraft series (THANK YOU FOR THAT) even though in some places I was sure she was going to and because we both love Castle for one haha. - I am Currently waiting for Jenna's new book (wish it would hurry up because I am DYING to read it (read about it here))
2. Alyson Noel - I am thankful for Alyson because she brought me Damon and Ever - love them - (even though the series didn't quest end the way I hoped), and she also brought me the second and third series I read. If it wasn't for Alyson's Immortal series and Riley Bloom series, I think I would probably wouldn't be reading as much as I do now. (Read interview here). I'm sad that there is not more Damon and Ever but glad I have her new series to keep me occupied and I am sure I will fall in love with Dace and Daire like it did with Ever and Damon.
3. Jessica Brody - I am thankful for Jessica because her books always make me laugh (except UNREMEMBERED it made me scream because of how it ended and knowing I have to wait a REALLY long time before I can read book 2 :p), I also interviewed Jessica (Read interview here).
4. Rose Impey - Rose wrote one of the first books I ever read and really truly appreciated and loved (The Sleepover Club) I was also lucky enough to interview Rose (Read interview here).
5. E.B. White - Charlotte's Web need I say more.
6. C. S. Lewis - C. S Lewis brought us the Chronicles of Narnia one of the best books ever written and films ever made I Love Aslan.
7. Dorothy Edwards - Dorothy wrote the first books I ever read (My Naughty Little Sister) over and over and over again which is why I am thankful of her.
8. Jodi Picoult - I am thankful for Jodi because she wrote the first book that ever made me stay up till late just to finish the book (I stayed up until 3am reading My Sisters Keeper just because I refused to sleep until I found out if Anna got what she wanted) and it was the first proper book to make me cry. (By proper I mean not Charlotte's Web which is the only other book to make me cry)
9. V. C. Andrews -  I am thankful for Virginia because her books are fab and her series Willow was the first series I ever read (never completed though I only read the first three and half books). I have read a few of her first in the series books but when I read them I wasn't as big a reader as I am now so I didn't want to read the rest of the series but eventually I will read the whole series of them all from the start.
10. Claudia Gray - Claudia wrote the first vampire series I have read, yet again Evernight is the only series about vampires I have read, even though I have yet to finish the series but Evernight was amazing and because this year is dedicated to reading books in series or finishing a series I have started I will get to finish reading them.

If it wasn't for most of these authors (mainly Jenna, Jessica and Alyson) I don't think my blog would have gone anywhere.

Top 10 Tuesday

This weeks topic is Top 10 books I believe everyone should read:

1. Evermore Series - Alyson Noel
2. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
3. My Life Undecided - Jessica Brody
4. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
7. Matilda - Roald Dahl
8. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
9. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
10. Wintercraft Series - Jenna Burtenshaw

Festive Literary Tag

From Loaded Shelves who got it from Misty

1. Name 5 books on your Christmas wishlist.
Ascend - Amanda Hocking
Hollowland - Amanda Hocking
Forbidden - Jana Oliver
Balthazar - Claudia Gray
Frozen Heat - Richard Castle

2. A book you like to read/would like to read for the holiday season
The Dinosaur who pooped Christmas - Tom and Dougie from Mcfly

3. Favourite Christmas book as a child
The Chronicles of Narnia

4. Which literary character do you think would give the best gifts?
Damen (before Everlasting) because he could conjure anything I wanted

5. If you could choose 3 literary characters to bestow gifts upon, who would they be, what would you give them.
Damen and Stefan Salvatore - The Vampire Diaries - I owuld give Damen Kathrine so Stefan can have Elena.
Peter, Susan, Edmond and Lucy - Narnia - The chance to go back to Narnia as many times as they would like.
Rosalee Hale - Twilight Saga - Her human life back :)
Found this hard I knew who I wanted to give to but could not decide what to give so I made up gifts that I thought they would all like.

6. If you could give one character a lump of coal for being bad, who would it be?
Roman from the Immortal Series

7. Which Scrooge-like character do you think would be the biggest downer during the holiday season?
Scrooge

8. Invite 5 authors and 5 characters to a festive season party!
Authors - Alyson Noel, Jenna Burtenshaw, Jessica Brody,Jodi Picoult and Danielle Steel
Characters - Stefan Salvatore (Vampire Diaries), Silas Dane (Wintercraft), Aslan (Narnia), Matilda and Lexi (52 Reasons)

Top 10 Tuesday

This weeks Top 10 Tuesday topic is Top 10 books I wish I could read again for the first time.

1. Evermore - Alyson Noel (review)
2. 52 Reasons - Jessica Brody (review)
3. Matilda - Roald Dahl
4. Wintercraft - Jenna Burtenshaw (review)
5. Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
6. The Sleepover Club series - Rose Impey
7. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
8. My Naughty Little Sister - Dorothy Edwards (review)
9. My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult
10. Facing Up To Fatherhood - Miranda Lee (review)

As always these are in no particular order.

Desert Island Books

I got this of my cousins blog it was a lot of fun and I’d love to know what you would take to a desert island. Please leave comments and let me know!

A book that you have read before and would like to re-read?

My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult

This book was the book that got me back into reading again and it was amazing. I have a huge to read pile and I started uni today so I wont have much time for reading.

A book you have never read but would like to read

Twilight 

I know, I know, I should have read it already but I look at all them pages and think oh my god. I also haven't read them yet because I have seen the films and I don't want to be disappointed in the films because the books are better or the other way round.

A childhood book you would want

Charlotte's Webb

A series that you would like to have

The Immortal Series by Alyson Noel or The Wintercraft Series by Jenna Burtenshaw

I love both series for different reasons so if I was stuck on a desert island I would like to have either of these series

Random selection

Jessica Brody's 52 Reasons to Hate my Father

I have just finished reading this book and I loved it I couldn't put it down

Top 10 Tuesday

This Weeks Top 10 Tuesday's topic is My Top 10 Favourite Books I Have Ever Read:

1. My Naughtly Little Sister - Dorothy Edwards
2. The Vampire Stalker - Allison Van Diepen (review here)
3. Matilda - Roald Dahl
4. Evermore - Alyson Noel (review here)
5. Wintercraft - Jenna Burtenshaw (review here)
6. My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult
7. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
8. 52 Reasons to Hate My Father - Jessica Brody (review here)
9. Willow - Virginia Andrews
10. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis