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The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

Start date: August 1, 2011

Finish date: September 1, 2011

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May 16, 2011 Anne (Booklady) Molinarolo rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller-mystery, permanent-library, literary-fiction, classics, good-fiction, spring-2012

Already knowing the storylines in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, I chose to focus upon the vignette that actually opens the story while reading this wonderful book a second time.

Inside the snow globe on my father’s desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two us watched the snow fall gently arou ...more

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Aug 07, 2012 Tara-Jayne (♥ I Read, I Love ♥) Bell rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, read-2012

You cant help but cry during this book, i think i cried a little around 4 times throughout this book, its was so sad..but at same times.. i smiled a lot too :)

GREAT read :)

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Jul 13, 2010 Kathy rated it liked it · review of another edition

I found this book to be good, disturbing, strange, confusing at times, and interesting all wrapped into one. It was disturbing to see into the mind of a killer and thought provoking that this somehow could happen to you or someone you love. Her views on what heaven is like really gave the reader a different twist on a very complex topic.

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