The Lovely Bones Lib/E (Audiobook)

from karriethelibrarian

Rarely do you get to read a book where the protagonist is dead and looking down on the life she has just left, but that's just what happens in the Lovely Bones. As I read this book I was transported to 1973 which was my 14th year -- the same year that Susie Salmon is raped and killed. There were ...

from jolerie

How do you describe in words a violation done against you that rips your soul from your body? How do you put yourself back together after your heart, body, and spirit have been ravaged? The answer - you don't. Susie Salmon is caught in between heaven and earth, and from there she shares with us h...

from Suuze

I absolutely LOVED this book. The writing is superb, especially considering the topic. So well planned, so thoughtful, so intelligently written - very impressive.I thought it would be depressing, or sad, but it absolutely was not..at all. Sure I cried, because it was so touching and emotional - b...

from Clurb

Overrated and sappy. I didn't hate this but then again there was absolutely nothing that I liked about it. What other people had described to me as an insightful and original take on a story of love and death, I found terribly labourious. I had a hard time suspending my disbelief with this one.

from Raven

The plot is simple. In 1973, Susie Salmon, aged fourteen, is murdered one winter's afternoon by a neigbour. Her body is never found. Nevertheless, she narrates the story from her version of a heaven, a strange seventies hybrid of high school and paradise, watching her family falling apart below. ...