I’ve found this tonite on the Belmont Filmhouse Café’s - Official BookCrossing Zone - bookshelf unregistered, so now its registered and ready to travel the world with a BookCrossing (BC) identifying number and a jolly BC bookplate and some lovely BC labels. A good call, from the original reader, for a BookCrossing themed release, as this book was made into a FILM.
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THE LOVELY BONES by ALICE SEBOLD (2002)
ISBN: 0330457721 / 9780330457729 (UK PB)
Publisher: Picador (2009 - pages 336)

From Fantastic Fiction: My name was Salmon, like the fish, first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer'

This is Susie Salmon, speaking to us from heaven. It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. There are counsellors to help newcomers to adjust, and friends to room with. Everything she wants appears as soon as she thinks of it - except the thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on earth.

From heaven, Susie watches. She sees her happy suburban family implode after her death, as each member tries to come to terms with the terrible loss. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet.

The Lovely Bones is a luminous and astonishing novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting. It is, above all, a novel which finds light in the darkest of places, and shows how even when that light seems to be utterly extinguished, it is still there, waiting to be rekindled.

Joining in on a BookCrossing book ring I read a different publishers copy of THE LOVELY BONES in 2004, gave it a rating of 9 out of 10 and rustled up the following notes which I’ve copied here:
“Sitting here wondering how to journal this, the tricky issue being, sorting out how I really feel. OK… I think it’s really stunning! It treads very lightly but took me really deeply into a story that otherwise I would have had the greatest of difficulty bearing with. It makes disturbing reading but thankfully there’s a pervading sense of calmness that pulled me through it. An extremely moving and quite haunting portrayal of hurt, loss and grief. Emotions numbed, yet by the end of the book the idea that life fortunately moves on and good things can occur broke through like a snowdrop in the snow. Wow.

I loved the cover of this Picador copy because the translucent ice blues and the crisp white type seemed to me to echo the mood, with the thin warm orange type [for me signifying Susie Salmon] not completely overwhelmed by all that blue.”

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Dropped into the Belmont - as one does - and liberated this book. Will see it gets a good home in a distant land.

Picked up today at King O'Malley's pub.

Will be released at the monthly meet-up of Canberra bookcrossers - at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.

Picked up from the BC get-together at the National Portrait Gallery Café, in Parkes, ACT. Thank you.

I tried to like this story, but about a third of the way through the book I began to skim. I disliked the perspective the story took. Were the observations from Susie’s point of view or not? I thought they were, but if they were the perspective was distorted. One moment it was her observation, the next it appeared to be someone else’s, as though looking at life through a distorted lens. Or was it supposed to be that way? If it was the effect was lost on me.
I also find it strange in these stories that keep the dead the age they died at. In other words, to be a good looking (young) ghost don’t grow old before you die, or you will be old for eternity.
The writing is okay, that’s the only reason I’m scoring it as high as four.
DEAD boring!!

Released on a bench in a park, Bordertown, SA, in front of the mural.
S 36° 18.603 E 140° 46.402

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