My book review on The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

[Sparx]

I love Lovely Bones and Lucky. Alice is an amazing writer.

 

[janette]

I really liked the book, I'm the mother of girls and I do thing that made it rougher but the writing style kept me going. Loved the ending, just so right.

Another book that really should have a warning label as not for Moms of girls is "My Sister's Keeper". I've never cried so much about a book, I felt that ending physically.

 

[cats7494]

I have a 12 year old daughter and I found it to be a very rough book to get through. I can not say I enjoyed reading it - but I could not put it down either.
I do not enjoy reading books that make me bawl...there is enough pain in the world daily to deal with.

 

[Fionasmommy]

I liked the book, but as a mother it was a difficult read for me.

 

[HoneyPooh]

I loved it. I thought it was beautifully written. Hard to read but well worth the effort. My reading tastes go all over the spectrum

 

[twinmomplus2new]

Is my Sisters keeper the one where the older sister runs away and describes all the sex abuse and etcc...

That book as well was very tough for me to read.

I am with a prior poster.. I threw Lovely Bones, Sisters keeper, and 2 others away. One was the john Wayne Gacy story, and the last was about the killer on the cape. (with the girl in the dunes) can not remember the name of it though???

 

[BratTink]

This is the only book I read that actually made me cry. I was alone on an airplane going to a business meeting crying. Couldn't put it down. I read Lucky too and didn't like it as much because it was a very difficult read.

 

[Jillpie]

Can someone give me the jist of this book and is it fiction? As a Mom of 3 boys, would I enjoy it? I love a good page turner.

 

[janette]

Can someone give me the jist of this book and is it fiction? As a Mom of 3 boys, would I enjoy it? I love a good page turner.

It is the story of a young girl that is murdered and the effect on her family. Told from her point of view, very different. It is fiction, IMO a page turner.

Is my Sisters keeper the one where the older sister runs away and describes all the sex abuse and etcc...

That book as well was very tough for me to read.

No, it deals with a family where the older sister has cancer and the younger one is a donor for her. Touches on controversial medical procedures and how a critical illness changes the family dynamic.

 

[NookOfTheNorth]

I think the previous poster has the wrong plot for My Sister's Keeper; it is a novel by the author Jodi Piccoult and definitely not about rape.

Rather, it is about a girl (13, I think) who was conceived to be a donor (marrow, kidney, etc) for her ill sister; in the book, she says she will no longer be a donor for her sister. It literally had me in tears when I read it; we were on the way to a graduation party about 3 hours aways and I sobbed for the last part hour of the drive. It is not sappy at all and has several pretty shocking twists. I've recommended it before, as well as many other books by Jodi Piccoult.

By the way, I too enjoyed both books by Alice Sebold and look forward to her next novel.

OT--in sticking with this theme of women authors, The Secret Life of Bees is really good as well.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Can someone give me the jist of this book and is it fiction? As a Mom of 3 boys, would I enjoy it? I love a good page turner.

The book is written in the 1st person by a 14yo girl who was raped and murdered. She is in heaven when we meet her, and learn of her death through her story. She watches over her family. Watches what the unbearable grief does to their marriage. Dances around in delight as she watches her little sister fall in love.....her heaven is pretty cool, too.

If you don't mind a tear jerker, then you will like it. I have been crying since page 4.

As for it being a page turner, it is a 400 page book I plan on finishing tonight. I started it yesterday afternoon.

 

[Mickeyluver37]

I've read this book twice. It is very good, but like everyone else said, it is horrifying.

I've never read Lucky, I want to read that one someday...

I personally didn't like the end of the book. Everyone's opinion is different, though...

I completely agree. I thought it was a great book, an awesome view on heaven....then I got to the end...way too farfetched and ruined it for me.

 

[twinmomplus2new]

I wasn't sure if I had the correct title for Sisters Keeper.

It was an oprahs selection awhile back, I couldn't put it down But it sure was disturbing to read.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

OK, I finished it last night. I was not too impressed with the heaven part. Some people here, and my sister think that part was great. It upset me, really. She had to choose between the people on Earth, or seeing her granddaddy? Not my idea of heaven. I would like to think that when I get there, my family will be waiting for me. She never seemed to accept being dead. She missed earth too much. I hope that is not the real heaven.

I agree with others about the end. Far fetched.

I am not sure this book would comfort someone who has lost a child. It upset me that Susie was so obsessed with her family and missing them. If I, God forbid, ever lost a child, I would be devastated if they missed me like she missed her family.

It was a page turner, that is for sure, but I would not put it in any "greats" catagory.

 

[Deb in IA]

OT--in sticking with this theme of women authors, The Secret Life of Bees is really good as well.

I'm reading this one now; it reminds me a bit of "To Kill a Mockingbird".

 

[goofy's friends]

OK, I finished it last night. I was not too impressed with the heaven part. Some people here, and my sister think that part was great. It upset me, really. She had to choose between the people on Earth, or seeing her granddaddy? Not my idea of heaven. I would like to think that when I get there, my family will be waiting for me. She never seemed to accept being dead. She missed earth too much. I hope that is not the real heaven.

I agree with others about the end. Far fetched.

I am not sure this book would comfort someone who has lost a child. It upset me that Susie was so obsessed with her family and missing them. If I, God forbid, ever lost a child, I would be devastated if they missed me like she missed her family.

It was a page turner, that is for sure, but I would not put it in any "greats" catagory.

Yup. That's what I thought!

 

[okeydokey]

Who do you think should play Susie in the movie?

I'm usually disappointed in movies made from books that I love (Deep End of the Ocean and White Oleander come to mind).

 

[Christine]

Who do you think should play Susie in the movie?

I'm usually disappointed in movies made from books that I love (Deep End of the Ocean and White Oleander come to mind).

Lindsey Lohan, of course!

 

[Jillpie]

Thanks for those descriptions. I'm not sure about this one. I'm so ready to start reading again, haven't done any serious reading for years and miss it. Kids got in the way! This sounds a little too melancholy for me, now give me some James Patterson, that I would like, a true escape.

 

[Deb in IA]

Lindsey Lohan, of course!

No way she could play a 14 year old . . .