Review: The Lovely Bones — the movie
The Lovely Bones is a haunting novel. I was excited to see that it had been made into a movie and curious what it would turn out to be. I reviewed Lovely Bones in 2008. I finally watched it (Thank You Netflix). It was a tiny bit different from the book, but not in a [...]
Finish That Bad Book?
Most book lovers feel compelled to finish reading a book no matter how boring, uninteresting, dense, or otherwise unlikeable it may be. I feel that way and have rarely just scrapped reading a book because I was struggling through it. Why? I think maybe it goes back to when we were being taught how to [...]
Review: The Almost Moon — Alice Sebold
Shop Indie Bookstores I read Lovely Bones and Lucky in 2008. Sebold’s first two books had some similarities but were quite different in many ways. I really enjoyed them both, though Lovely Bones was my favorite of the two. I was excited when I found The Almost Moon on Glyde.com for under $5. I won’t [...]
Review: Lucky — Alice Sebold
Shop Indie Bookstores In the early 1980s Alice Sebold attended Syracuse University. While a freshman at SU, she was brutally attacked and raped at night, by a stranger. That attack is where the memoir Lucky begins. Her description of the rape is a detailed, play by play that she worked to etch in her memory. [...]
Review: Lovely Bones — Alice Sebold
Shop Indie BookstoresI found it interesting, after reading an interview with Alice Sebold in the back of Lucky, that she wrote the begining of The Lovely Bones before starting Lucky. She said she didn’t want the narrator, Suzie Salmon’s story to be infused with her own, so she put it down. She wrote Lucky. Then [...]
