The pain of breaks.

Some of you might already know that I'm a pain freak. I have pain phobia. Not only I'm afraid of myself being in pain, but witnessing the pain of others can also affect me greatly.

That's why Handle with Care is really disturbing to me.

There are pains almost every where, throughout the book. It is full of pain. I can feel my own imaginary pain merely from reading it. And it's not only physical, but also emotional. There were breaks every where.

I kept praying that the little girl won't break, but that's obviously impossible. Willow, the 5 year old girl, has osteogenesis imperfecta, which means her bones can break very easily, sometimes even when she sneezes. Every time she fell and had a break, I had to skip the paragraph, which makes me skim through like, almost 20% of the book (I tried my best!). What kind of reading is this? T___T I feel like cheating, or being cheated T_T

And is it the reason why I found the characters' reactions all too extreme and irrational? I kept asking "can't you see what you are doing? wake up will ya?" I cannot feel the sympathy I had with My sister keeper anymore. People are stubborn and weird and determined to break their lives in pieces. Family, friendship, parenthood, love... everything was out of control.

Well, at least it's got a coherent and concise writing style. The prose in some parts is quite powerful, I'd say. I like the way she describe parent's love.

And here comes my favourite quote in this book:

"You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like."
— Jodi Picoult (Handle with Care)

Well, at least the book is not boring :P