• .

  • did not stop

  • 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.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― Beeridgett said on Mar 29, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

• 1 of 2 people find this helpful

  • 

  • 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

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― SheReads said on Mar 5, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

Passionately embraced by booksellers, reviewers, and readers throughout America (and around the world), THE LOVELY BONES is a work at once compelling and startlingly fresh-a novel that builds out of a family's grief the most hopeful and joyful of stories.

Groups with this in collection

50 Book Challenge! (275)

Eclectic Book Club (74)

bookcrossing (975)

• FicciónFictionEn InglésEnglish VersionhardbacknovelUS literature 米國文學Literature & Fiction 文學小說readswapped
• See all (32)