I recently finished reading “Mercy” by Jodie Picoult. It is a great book, but it made me quite depressed because I chose the wrong time to read it. The book is about a man convicted of murder after the mercy killing of his wife who in in the last stages of cancer. It was on the top of my “book to read” pile which is why I read it. At the same time my father died of cancer, so it was all a bit close to home. I finished reading it and then looked at the next book on the pile. It was called “1001 Places to see before you die”. I have moved it down the pile.