Hard read for what Alice Seabold has been through but worthwhile.

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hmm it appears this book is still in my possession. I am going to release it into bookbox

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to be released into bookbox

received the book in a bookbox :)

I read "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold several years ago, and found it an incomparable and compelling work of fiction. I was not aware that "Lucky" is memoir, or I might have been interested in it earlier. This copy arrived in Jumiege's bio/memoir bookbox today, and I am "catching" it to read. Thanks for sending it along, Skruffykaz.

The candor and clarity of Alice Sebold's account of a very disturbing aspect of her personal history is staggering. I hope that many people, men and women, will gain an understanding of the nature of rape and its lasting impacts from this memoir, and that it will have a positive effect on rape prevention efforts and justice and healing for the victims of this crime.

It's hard to say much more than that.

Well worth reading.

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This is one of 21 books that arrived in a mailed bookbox from Springville, Tennessee. I won this box of books from a lottery of four book boxes that were offered by "bookstogive". My box arrived today, and I'm looking forward to sharing these books with others.

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This book has the word ICE in the author's name.

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I read this book in 2005. This is what I wrote about it after I read it...

Lucky is a nonfiction book detailing the author’s account of being sexually assaulted while a college student. She opens with the horrible rape scene and follows with the difficulty of falling back into step with life again in its aftermath. Battered by flashbacks and lacking real support from her odd family, the author shares with her reading public the difficulty of returning to the semblance of a “normal” life when others know more than they really needed to about her unfortunate situation.

I’m very glad I gave this author a second chance. I hated and could not finish her non-fiction book, The Lovely Bones, but I am mesmerized by Lucky. The book is amazingly good. Some of the writing is so beautiful. All of it is deeply felt and expressive of the author’s deepest thoughts. It must be very hard to bring these thoughts into words in a way in which the reader can feel what the author does. In it, she really bares her soul. The message is so important that I both started a bookray with it and gave it to my daughter (also a college student) to read.

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