The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebolt

My friend Jenna loned me a book to read while here at the beach. The book is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. This was a different kind of book than my usual read, but I did enjoy it. Jenna thought that I could gain something by reading this book and I think that I did. This book is about a girl that was murdered and killed. She is narrating the book from Heaven. It is about the way that her family deals with her death and learning to go on without her. It is about grief, coping, family, and growing. What I got out of it was that no one who knew the girl wanted to move forward from the time in their life when Susie was killed. They didn't want to go on with their lives because then they might forget about Susie. Eventually, life does go on and good things happen and that's okay. Even though life becomes less focused on the person lost, you can still remember the person together. There are several quotes from the book that I want to share but I don't have the book with me right now so I will share them later. I could talk about this book for awhile...so, if you read it, let me know and I would love to discuss it with you. Now, I am reading The Saving Graces and I am halfway through it. I hope to finish it on the beach today.