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I‘ve put off reading this book for years. This copy was given to me by someone who said she buys this book at secondhand stores whenever she sees it and hands it out to people to read. I couldn‘t say no upon hearing that. I‘m glad I finally read it as distressing as the murder at the beginning is. It‘s really a book about grief and families. A really good read.

Finished this out on the deck and got choked up by the ending. Great read!

My next read is another re-read. I think I have a pretty good memory of this one, but we'll see! (Don't mind my phone charger in the way of the picture) #BookElevenOf2025

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Alice Sebold

#CoverStories #jewelry

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

🌳Suburbs
🦴Tagged - movie filming was in our area

@TheSpineView #two4tuesday

Kim suggest‘s another book that also has a movie on Book Interrupted‘s Manuscript Monday.
https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-the-lovely-bones

#bookinterrupted #ManuscriptMonday #bookrecommendations #bookreview #bookswithmovies #bookstoread #bookclub #thelovelybones

This book was Amazing! I remember the film too bc Stanley Tucci was in it. Aside from that, it was good but the book is better.

#Bones

#AutumnPlease!

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/the-tortured-bond-of-alice-sebold-...

#OminousOctober
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#Bones ☠

#bones #ominousoctober @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Book one down for #Scarathlon2022
I was really disappointed by this book. It was so boring but felt like it was leading up to something and then it never came.
#TeamMonsterMash #Scarathlon2022
@StayCurious

The first book that came to mind for #Victim narrated by a murdered girl.

#ScarathlonDailyPrompts #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash

My first book I'm picking up for the #Scarathlon2022 also my #scarathlondailyprompts day 3 Killer. #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious

read: july 31-august 24, 2022

i wanted to love this book. i really did. however beautiful the beginning and end were, what filled the middle section of the novel moved at such an odd pace i found myself often bored and uninterested. alice sebold is able to connect heaven and earth in such a unique fashion, which is fun to read about. however, i wasn‘t a fan of sebold‘s vernacular and use of run-on sentences, as they left me often confused.

“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections… that happened after I was gone.”

- Chapter 23, Page 320

“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”

- Chapter 14

#Alphabetgames
#LetterL

Lovely bones - a psychedelic film with a heartbreaking ending.
Lady killer's - Absolutely loved the history of woman killer's.
Last night at the viper room - drugs, celebrities and lies

I opened this book to find out the main character was murdered on my birthday, so that was fun! This book reminded me of Ask Again, Yes and The Last Romantics - it was a story about people living their lives. This book was about Susie‘s family and how they dealt with her murder as she watches them from above. I thought it would be a bit more of a thriller/mystery, but I still liked reading it.

A moving novel about growing up, loss, justice, and not giving up.

👌

In this book, fourteen year old Susie Salmon is raped and murdered. She spends majority of the book ‘living‘ in heaven and she is adjusting to life up there. Meanwhile, her family and friends are dealing with loss and tragedy down on earth. Susie watches her family, friends, and even murderer, continue their lives on earth, after that terrible day, as they learn to grieve and move on.

Last book of #wintergames2021 was a full out therapy session. The first chapters start of as graphic as any K Slaughter novel, then moves in to a wonderful agnostic view of the afterlife and a case study on how people deal with grief and loss. It‘s a lot, and you‘re always wanting more for everyone. Frustrating. Realistic. Haunting. A perspective on serial killers tales, even almost 20 yrs since it‘s publish, that‘s quite unique.

Thank god that‘s over! It‘s times like these I wish I was the type of person who could bail on books. It started off good for maybe the first 10 pages, then it turned into an utter snooze fest with added cringe. So glad to be done

Very sad because of the subject matter, but I also found it thought-provoking and beautiful. Been on my shelf forever - glad I finally read it.

#bookspinbingo

#two4tuesday

1. Tagged. I just started it today.
2. I‘m not very far into it (and I haven‘t seen the movie) but so far I like the author‘s take on Heaven.

If you want to play, consider yourself tagged! 🤗

hey guys !
i've just created a new instagram ( bookstagram ), I don't have many friends who enjoy reading as much as I do. So, I decided to make an account for other book lovers like me. go follow my new account or comment yours below !
it's @ justtwomorechapters

#Movie2BookRecs #susansarandon 31. I made it! Finished the whole challenge. I really didn‘t like this book, so I never watched the movie. I can‘t think of a book that is similar that I could recommend 🤷🏻‍♀️

I finally finished The Lovely Bones after a few months of reading. It‘s beautifully written, but because of the subject matter, I had to take lots of breaks. I was thinking as I read that I knew someone who read this book in school in about 8th grade. As an educator, it seems a little heavy to teach for 8th grade. Anyone else read it in middle/high school? I‘m curious to know! Maybe I‘m just overly sensitive.

Very touching story...I wonder if thats how Heaven really is like?

Have you ever had a book sit, you pick it up and then you ask yourself why you waited so long to take this journey? Well, that happened with my #bookspin book my first month of BINGO 🤯🥰 Told in an atmospheric way from the perspective of the victim, this poignant and transformational psychological journey is the retelling of grief, loss, hope and moving on. I do wish the killer suffered more because he made me 😡. #recentlyread @TheAromaofBooks

A very sad and thought provoking tale. Loved the little insights into heaven. Just wish the culprit had been arrested, convicted and had a horrible time of it in prison. He seemed to get away too lightly.

Just about to start this. It‘s my book group‘s choice.

I feel like this book had a great build up and fizzled out at the end. Like I understand what the author was trying to do, but it was just anticlimactic for me. #BookSpinBingo

Oh so that‘s the reason 🤐

I kind of like this theology of heaven 😅

Day 10 #oppositeday Prompt: Soft. Let me explain my response for this prompt. Before this book, I was a hard core reader of violence. I could nearly handle anything. Then this book came along about 22 years ago... at the same time I was pregnant with my first. I remember sitting in the living room with the legs tucked under me leaning on a pillow. ⬇️

“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.”
#FirstLineFridays

Reread one of my all time favorites! 💔

Here is my first #bookspin list for the year 2021. I have had a bit of a hiatus when it comes to reading, so I really want to pick it back up this year. Hope everyone has a great start to their year! @TheAromaofBooks

The tagged book had me crying. Like a baby. I cannot think of another book that has made me so emotional.

Thanks @Megabooks for the tag.
Want to play? @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @iread2much

@Cuilin

this book has been on my TBR for a while, part of a huge thriftbooks haul circa 💸 stimulus check 💸

plenty of reading time in store since i‘m waking up at 3am every morning trying (and failing) to kennel train my canine friend 🥱😴
#thelovelybones #latenightreads #puppy

Okay, I‘m copying @wanderinglynn (hope you don‘t mind...)

The top #3books made me cry
The bottom #3books made me laugh

Pretty, sad, sweet, and endearing

As a mother, this was difficult to read. For every time it made me hurt though, it made me smile. Alice found a way to do that. I loved imagining Susie in her special heaven. I think I may forever forward imagine heaven in this sense: your own special brand; where things change as you desire. Lovely. My heart bled for her parents, and in the next beat it recovered with Susie‘s peace. Alice, what a gift to the grieving you have made. ❤️

What a neat way to think. I 💕 this