The Lovely Bones
Registered by monnibo of Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on 9/25/2016
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ABOUT THE BOOK
The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. Upsetting, you say? Remarkably, first-time novelist Alice Sebold takes this difficult material and delivers a compelling and accomplished exploration of a fractured family's need for peace and closure.
The details of the crime are laid out in the first few pages: from her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by the murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously, we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished.
Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive -- and then some. But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. To her great credit, Sebold has shaped one of the most loving and sympathetic fathers in contemporary literature.
The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. Upsetting, you say? Remarkably, first-time novelist Alice Sebold takes this difficult material and delivers a compelling and accomplished exploration of a fractured family's need for peace and closure.
The details of the crime are laid out in the first few pages: from her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by the murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously, we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished.
Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive -- and then some. But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. To her great credit, Sebold has shaped one of the most loving and sympathetic fathers in contemporary literature.
I read in in two days because it was just so gripping, and so sad too. Amazingly written, but I don’t think I’ve ever cried that much in a book.
It’s just so touching to hear it from Susie’s point of view. She watches her family from her heaven after her brutal rape and murder; only her elbow was ever found. She watches her little sister Lindsey become the woman she never would be, she watches her father become consumed with revenge, and her mother torn from her family, and her little brother grow up without her.
If you can handle sad books, I would definitely recommend it.
It’s just so touching to hear it from Susie’s point of view. She watches her family from her heaven after her brutal rape and murder; only her elbow was ever found. She watches her little sister Lindsey become the woman she never would be, she watches her father become consumed with revenge, and her mother torn from her family, and her little brother grow up without her.
If you can handle sad books, I would definitely recommend it.
Journal Entry 3 by monnibo at Word Vancouver (book & magazine festival) in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Sunday, September 25, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (9/25/2016 UTC) at Word Vancouver (book & magazine festival) in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
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The Lower Mainland BookCrossing Meetup Group will be participating in Word Vancouver 2016
Date: Sunday, September 25, 2016.
Location: Library Square, 350 Georgia Street, Vancouver
The Lower Mainland Bookcrossing Meetup Group is a free gathering of book lovers. Join us at Word Vancouver 2016 - Table P16. Learn more about us at www.meetup.com/bcbooks and the festival at www.wordvancouver.ca
Date: Sunday, September 25, 2016.
Location: Library Square, 350 Georgia Street, Vancouver
The Lower Mainland Bookcrossing Meetup Group is a free gathering of book lovers. Join us at Word Vancouver 2016 - Table P16. Learn more about us at www.meetup.com/bcbooks and the festival at www.wordvancouver.ca
