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The Book of Two Ways

By: Jodi Picoult
Narrated by: Patti Murin
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Dawn thinks she knows everything there is to know about dying. As a death doula, she helps her clients fix what is left undone so they can peacefully make the final transition. But when her plane plummets from the sky and she thinks she is experiencing the last moments of her life, she is shocked to find that she isn't thinking of her husband or teenage daughter - but of a road she strayed from 15 years earlier, when she turned her back on her PhD studies.

Against all odds, Dawn survives, and the airline gives her a free ticket to wherever she needs to get to. In alternating chapters, we see possible choices: land - returning to her husband, a quantum physicist who studies the possibilities of parallel universes, she is faced with a test to her marriage and a daughter who is struggling with self-image issues. And water: returning to her studies and the archaeological site she worked on 15 years earlier, where the man she abandoned is about to make the discovery of a lifetime.

But time may not be as straightforward as we think. As Dawn explores her possible futures, she is finding out what a well-lived life means, what we leave behind of ourselves when we leave the earth, and who she might have been....

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Some interesting bits but mostly boring. Would have returned the book but wanted to give it a chance. I wish I hadn't bothered.

not Jodi Picoult"s best

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The American was ‘too American’ her English accent irritating to the extreme. It was hard to get past the narration to enjoy the plot.
I’m usually a huge fan of Ms Picoults work, but couldn’t really engage in this one. The fact that the main character found two men to love her so completely, when she was so bland and one dimensional was hard to swallow.
I enjoyed the lessons in Egyptology.

The Narrator ruined it!

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I have the paperback but because I have severe fatigue I often also listen to audio books alongside when I can't read, I love the book but , I'm sorry to the narrator, I found her voice quite irritating, not too much when she spoke in her own accent but when she was doing the English accent, I found it grating and wish she had just stuck to her own accent, I'm now going back to the paperback ...

Interesting

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I love Egypt and found that part of the book fascinating but I found it impossible to actually like or care about, any of the characters .. Dawn is simply insufferable and I think the book could have been several hours shorter ..I got so tired of her constant arguments.On the plus side the story had a great plot, and the writer obviously knows her stuff . The male British accent was awful, which didnt help to make Wyatt more likeable. But the book really did make me think ..

Fascinating in parts

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English accent though could do with finessing. Quite annoying. The narrators voice however is lovely. Overall really enjoyed it

Very good.

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