...and now for my book review...

The Lovely Bones

This book was suggested to me by my friend Rachel. I was telling her how the books I've been reading haven't been making me think or feel anything like I'd want a book to do. So she told me to read this one.

The story is about a 14 yr old girl who is raped and murdered by a neighbor. It is told from her perspective as she sits in her heaven and watches her family and friends deal with her death. After her death, she was granted the opportunity to experience some things she never got to on Earth. I found a similar element in this book as I found in watching the movie "What Dreams May Come". That is...the living cannot move on until the dead has let them go. and vice versa.

Well, I must thank Rachel in this because so far in my book reading (and i havent read many), I read this one the fastest. I just had to find out what was on the next page until I was done. The author, Alice Sebold, is definitely fearless in her storytelling. She kept on delivering all these series of events and thoughts of the characters that kept me wanting more. I find that books written by women tend to capture the beauty in things much more accurately. Or maybe I just relate to their description of it more easily...for obvious reasons.