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  • This is the only novel i have ever read cover to cover in one sitting. I remember the night very well. I had borrowed it from my little sister a few days prior, and i was lying awake in bed, couldn't sleep. I picked it up, hoping it would be boring and lull me into dreamland. I had to work in th ... Continue

    This is the only novel i have ever read cover to cover in one sitting. I remember the night very well. I had borrowed it from my little sister a few days prior, and i was lying awake in bed, couldn't sleep. I picked it up, hoping it would be boring and lull me into dreamland. I had to work in the morning, and i needed rest. I think i only got an hour of sleep that morning. I started reading and could NOT stop. I kept thinking "this chapter would be a stopping point", but it never was. I just wanted more and more. and i also cried and cried and cried! Very sad, but quite meaningful and touching, especially if you have had to grieve from a death in your family. I recommend it for someone who has a few hours to kill, and doesn't mind getting swept up in an emotional journey of two sisters, one whom is dead, but not quite gone from the earth.

    The only reason i don't give it a "love it" rating was because it emotionally effected me so much. I think i had a couple nightmares over the weeks following reading it. Lovely Bones does have a bit of a 'horror' part to it.

    

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  • I liked Susie's perspective on death. She seemed to have a sense of humor about the whole situation. The thing that kept me turning the page--finding out if her family finds out who murdered her. We actually did this one for the high school book club I mediate in March 2005

    

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When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didnt happen. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death, and her own adjustment to the strange new place she finds herself. (It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swingset.) With love, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie watches her family as they cope with their griefher father embarks on a search for the killer, her sister undertakes a feat of amazing daring, her little brother builds a fort in her honorand begin the difficult process of healing. In the hands of a brilliant new novelist, and through the eyes of her winning young heroine, this story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful, touching, even funny novel about family, memory, love, heaven, and living.

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