Jodi Albert

Jodi Picoult is a prolific writer who does a great deal of research on the often-controversial subjects she deals with in her novels. First introduced to me with The Pact: A Love Story , Jodi quickly became my favorite author and has not let me down, publishing a new book every year. All of her books are written with unbelievable depth and feature characters who are very well developed and who readers can easily relate to or identify with. My personal favorite from her long list of titles has to be Nineteen Minutes , a book I could not put down once I started ... Read Full Story

Posted on Wednesday~March 18, 2009 I met Jodi Picoult . Yup, here's proof, right here in this picture. That's me on your left. Jodi Picoult is right there in the middle. And The Amazing Auntie Kay is on your right. (My Aunt, not Jodi's.) I'd like to tell you that I had a very eloquent exchange with Jodi P., like the one I had planned. In that daydream, the one I had while I was standing in line, I said, "You rock!" And she responded excitedly with, " Why, thank you!!! " (See? Totally eloquent.) But no, that's not what happened. Instead, I just ... Read Full Story

Jodi Albert (born 22 July 1983 in Chingford, London) is an English actress and sometime Glamour model. She is probably best known for playing Debbie Dean in the British soap opera Hollyoaks, on Channel 4 from 2002 to 2004. At the age of ten, Jodi played the part of Young Cosette in Les Misérables at London's Palace Theatre. She was also in the short-lived British girlband Girl Thing, who had a top ten hit in the United Kingdom in 2000 with the song Last One Standing. In 2005, Albert won the British Soap Award for Sexiest female for her role in Hollyoaks and appeared ... Read Full Story

Jodi Picoult: Award Winning Author Famous for exploring the darker side of life, Jodi Picoult – second only to JK Rowling in the bestseller list – has turned the spotlight on the children for whom just a sneeze or a cuddle could crush their fragile bones. Things break all the time. "You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and even prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence and fever," so says Charlotte, as she recalls the night her daughter Willow was born. ... Read Full Story

Handle with Care: A Novel Jodi Picoult has been steadily releasing books, nearly annually, since 1992. Picoult has said that, for her, the creation of a novel is much like the development of a baby in that it takes nine months. For the many authors who release books quickly, it can be said that oftentimes the hastiness of finishing the novel detracts from the quality of the work. However, Picoult's 16th novel, Handle with Care is no less poignant than her others. Although many of her previous novels have been bestsellers, Picoult's fame skyrocketed with her 2003 novel, My Sister's Keeper. It has managed ... Read Full Story