Leaving Time (with Bonus Novella Larger Than Life)

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If a psychic reading brings someone comfort or helps them grieve, do you think it matters if the message is faked? She contacts Serenity, a once renowned but now disgraced psychic, and Virgil, a former police detective who originally investigated the tragic incident at the elephant sanctuary. There are a couple of anomalies that bothered me a little, but as I can’t describe them without giving away some critical plot points I had better leave them alone. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. Alice says that 98 percent of science is quantifiable, leaving 2 percent “that can’t be measured or explained.

Did you know they are one of the few animals that can recognize that the reflection they see as themselves? At The Elephant Sanctuary in TN, an elephant named Jenny was living peacefully when a new elephant, Shirley, arrived.

Because I promise you – once you read LEAVING TIME, you’re never going to think about elephants quite the same way. I wasn’t too moved by this analogy as in spite of being a caring mother, Alice was also careless and irresponsible in some ways.

you can “adopt” an elephant, or make a donation in memory of an animal lover, or feed all the elephants for one day —no amount is too small, and all are so greatly appreciated. What you may NOT know about elephants is that they have an incredibly complex brain, capable of communicating, learning, remembering, and experiencing fear, pain and loss. Virgil was just the pick-me-up the book needed, and Jenna helped him to pick himself up out of his drunken stupor too.Jodi Picoult shows us the complexity of elephant society, especially in relation to how the females of the species care for themselves, their offspring and each other. Avoid this mess of a book, which was about elephants, psychics, and who knows what else, because I got to page 170 and threw the thing across the room. There were no zoos near where we lived in Connecticut, but the Forest Park Zoo in Springfield, Massachusetts had a real, live elephant—and we were going to see her. I recommend Leaving Time to fans of Jodi Picoult who want to try something a little different; instead of a court case, Picoult includes elephants and the supernatural world.