The Lovely Bones

Oh yes, oh yes! I can't wait for the movie. I loved the book. One can easily assume by reading the back panel of the book that it's depressing, but it isn't because the voice of the narrator is not melancholy at all. Reading the book is like having a rural 1970's neighborhood and heaven come alive in your head. Sebold could take you to heaven and back with how she coined each word. And there are a lot of good lines from the book, here are some of my fave:


"When the dead are done with the living, the living can do on to other things, "Franny said. "Whay about the dead", I asked, "Where do we go?"

"I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it."

"How to commit the perfect murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away."

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent - that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”

Read the plot of the book here!

Trivia: Alice Sebold draws personal experience from when she was raped in college.