The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - Book Review!
The Lovely Bones - is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold.Hello, my beautiful friends! Thanks for coming again! Today I am going to talk about the book called The Lovely Bones!
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This book is hugely emotion-packed. But this book was interestingly written because it's from a girl who was murdered. The book made me wonder about those who have lost a loved one. I just can't imagine how people cope with such horror. That they could go through something like that and survive.
You follow the life that this young girl once had as she tells you about the memories she had, the things learned, and the people she loved. Susie also talks about her "heaven." In her heaven, Susie does not let her family and friends go. She follows them through the years, watching her younger sister Lindsey does everything that she would have done if she was alive. Susie can't let her family go, and they see her everywhere; in the valley where she was killed; in her father's workroom. We understand the murder through her eyes after she is killed. Susie narrates her story from heaven, a place like I'd not before imagined. Her sky begins as her school playground. Slowly it grows to become more. Susie merely longs for something she misses from the earth, and it appears, except, of course, the living. Although she can watch her loved ones, know what they are doing, thinking, and feeling, she cannot be with them, or they with her.
Susie watches her friends whisper about her at school. She watches as her younger sister, Lindsey, hardens to stone. Her four-year-old brother, Buckley, is passed from neighbor to neighbor, having sleepovers, told his sister has just gone away for a bit. She listens to the detective, Len, say to her parents the inevitable, that they are now investigating her disappearance as a murder. Her family slowly begins to crumble, and Susie can do nothing to help. Alice Sebold creates clear visuals in your head of what it was that Susie saw, and what she felt like being dead. You envision her family members and the environment that Susie had once been in. Her characters are entirely amazing individuals, but not unreal or impossible. The way she wrote the book, from Suzie's viewpoint, was terrific.
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“Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, a penguin was wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little, my father would pull me into 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 snowfall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.”
It makes you value your family when you read about the devastation they were left with. If you are in the mood for reading a depressing story, then this book is definitely for you.
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External Links:
・ The Lovely Bones - Wikipedia
・ The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - Goodreads
・ Amazon.com: The Lovely Bones: Alice Sebold: Books
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