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 whch 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,

Thanks Santa. I was naughty and I opened this a couple of days before Christmas and read it straight away. I really enjoyed it and now I can't wait to see the movie.

Lifeline Canberra Bookfairs

These Bookfairs raise a major portion of the funding needed to keep the Lifeline Canberra telephone counselling lines available to the community.

Our main Spring and Autumn Bookfairs offer around 200,000 donated items for sale. We have a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books, including rare books and collectables, children's books and foreign language books. You'll also find magazines and pamphlets, comics, maps and atlases, audio tapes and talking books, records and CDs, videos and DVDs, games and jigsaws.

Entry to the Lifeline Canberra Bookfairs is by gold coin donation. You can pay for your purchases with cash, cheque, credit card (Mastercard or Visa) or EFTPOS.
Autumn 2011 Bookfair

When?
Friday 25 March 10am-6pm
Saturday 26 March 10am-5pm
Sunday 27 March 10am-4pm

Where?
Budawang Building
Exhibition Park
Flemington Road, Mitchell

Greta read - sad story.

Picked up at our monthly BookCrossing meet held this time at King O'Malley's Pub in Civic, ACT. Thank you beli-jg.

I once did a quick read of this book in less than two hours. I thought the opening was great, but I did not think much of the rest of the book. But a two hour read is hardly a fair way to judge a book and I have heard so much praise in favour of this book that I thought I should give it a slower more respectful read. It will be interesting if when I read the book at normal speed I have a different opinion.

I tried to like this story and read it more slowly this time, but about a third of the way through the book I began to skim. I’m afraid I liked it no more this time reading it more carefully than I did when I read it fast several years ago. 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!!

I saw in a magazine there is a group of new statues in Civic called "Bush Pack", which are several dingoes (wild dogs). So I thought what a great place to release this book and hopped on my bicycle and pedalled to Civic and gave the dogs, "The Lovely Bones". May whoever finds this book enjoy it more than I did. This book divides readers, some really love it, others can't stand it.

While in Civic I briefly visited King O'Malley's Pub to check out the BC books left there and selected three. A member sometimes wild releases there. On the way back I passed the 'Bush Pack' and this book was gone. Happy reading.

This book is released:
In memory of Megi53’s mother
2011 Keep Them Moving Challenge
2011 Theme Releases


To the finder, enjoy, and I hope you will write a journal entry so that previous readers will know that this book has been found (even anonymously). It is always a joy to find where it has gone. Once you've read this book, pass it on to a friend, or set it out "in the wild" for someone else to find as you did.
You can remain anonymous but if you are interested in joining please consider using - Goldenwattle as your referrer.
When you pass this book along, please make a release note to let others know where you left it. Thank you.