Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Reviews

When on holiday I like to take a few books with me to read as it is one of my favourite activities. A few weeks ago I had read all of my books so I decided to read one of the books my daughter had brought on holiday with her which happened to be The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. First off this is not a book that you can read hoping to ...

Charming and whimsical are two words which are overused when it comes to books and films which don't fit into any neat genre, or defy our expectations. Yet, in the case of The Lovely Bones, it's entirely appropriate to use them. The unusual story follows a young girl who is brutally murdered by a neighbour and gets to observe her ...

Suzie Salmon was only 14 years old when George Harvey raped and murdered her in a room he dug out under the frozen cornfields. Alice Sebold's novel "Lovely Bones" is Suzie's observations of life on earth, after she's dead and is in heaven. Yes, I know this sounds a bit strange, and could easily have been very morbid or ...

When we are directed towards a particular book, and have platitudes of "sensational" and "it'll change your life" rammed down our throats I think we have a tendency to raise our expectations enormously and become hyper critical and unforgiving. I remind myself of this as I write this review because I am fully aware ...

I have wanted to read the lovely bones for a while and on a recent visit to my second family I found it among my best friend's book shelf! So here's a quick look into my experience of this book. One evening on the way home from school Susie Salmon is murdered, by someone she knows and it shocks her whole neighbourhood. Who could have ...

The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold This is the first novel by Alice Sebold, and is published by Picador. UK retail price is £7.99, and the ISBN is 0330485385. A story of hope. I came to this book by recommendation. A friend of mine had read it and said how moving, how important it was. How it ...

"Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red and white striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me onto his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. ...

This book recahed top sellers lists everywhere and therefore I felt compelled to read it. However after I picked it up in a shop I didn't think it was my sort of book so I decided not to buy it. However still as intrigued as ever, I decided to get the book from my school library. Part of me is glad I did, yet a bigger part wishes I ...

This book is written from the afterlife perspective of fourteen year old Susie Salmon who is murdered by a neighbour. The language and choice of words is so apt you can virtually hear Susie talking to you. The storyline is both heart rending and gripping as she tries to lead her family to her killer and watches their despair following her ...

My big sister had bought this book ages ago and it had been lying in our book case for months, long after she'd finished reading it. It hadn't appealed to me, so I'd left it lying there, but a few days ago I decided I needed a little break from studying for exams. I'm not the kind of person to go for much 'light reading'. My book case is full of ...

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon is raped and murdered in a cornfield on her way home from school. Most of her body is never found but there is sufficient evidence for her family – mother, father, brother and sister – to accept that she is dead. Her murderer is a neighbour and serial killer. Susie’s mother had admired his flower border and her ...

I saw this book a while ago and wanted it straight away. The wording on the back was enough to convince me. ‘My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighbourhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about ...

The Lovely Bones. Upon seeing the title of this book i couldn't help but wonder what it would be about. I had seen it splashed over magazines for weeks, in the topsellers list and photgraphs of celebrities reading it as they relaxed on the beach. And whats good enough for the rich and famous is good enough for me. So for weeks i kept ...

This was a really good book. It made me think about it long after I stopped reading, and I really liked the way it was more about her sister and her family than her. My friend Becky would really enjoy this book as she likes this kind of thing. I wasnt sure bout near the end but I think it just about got away with it and made it semibelieveable. ...

I despair sometimes, I really do. Our bookshops are crammed to bursting with juicy tomes. All those tasty classics and meaty fictions nestled side by side, shelves stretching out dripping with words and imagery. And then there is the ?Bestsellers? section. In my recent drought of things to read I wandered around Ottakers filling ...

This is the first published novel of Alice Sebold. For a first novel this is original and captivating and I should certainly be interested to see her later contributions to the literary world. THE PLOT Susie Salmon was fourteen when she was raped and murdered by a neighbour. This is not the end but only the beginning of our ...

I missed my train because of this book. I'm not a great reader of books, but bought this as it was on offer at Waterstones. It is about a deceased girl looking down from heaven, talking about her experiences when she was alive and how her friends and family change during the years. This book pulls you into the story, you want to know ...