Jodi Picoult: Nineteen minutes

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, colour your hair, watch a third of a hockey game, order a pizza and get it delivered, read a story to your child or have your oil changed. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge. - Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens – until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting....

Another interesting story of Jodi Picoult's! I found it very difficult at first to get myself to read it, as it was upsetting to face up to all the taunting and bullying that goes on in schools and that the victims of bullying might one day get revenge. However, once the story unfolded it became clear that not all was as clear-cut as would have been expected from the beginning. Although the moral take of the story is great, the actual ending to the novel was slightly disappointing....