Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold



This book came highly recommended by a friend but it took me forever to get around to reading it. My sister started it before me and called to tell me how great it was. She says she cried through the first 20 pages or so. I didn't have quite the same reaction. It was good, but not enough to make it to my favorites list. The writing style is a bit dreamy and flowing, but maybe a bit too dreamy. It does have sex scenes, but without details, somewhere between PG and PG13. I did keep reading just because I wanted so desperately to see what happened to the bad guy (I was a bit disappointed at how he was handled). There were some very poignant thoughts about grief and healing, if there ever can be after losing a loved-one.

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