Drink Milk. (Calcium…Mmm)

I began reading The Lovely Bones (by Alice Sebold) sometime on Tuesday. Although undoubtedly a feminine read (aka, chick lit) this novel pushes those boundaries and has a androgynous, unsentimental feel. So far, a teenage girl is ruthlessly murdered by a neighbor, Mr. Harvey. She “floats” to heaven and proceeds to tell what happens after her death on earth as well as inside her lonely little heaven.

Highlights (so far) include

-Dog finding her elbow

-Mr.Harvey sticking her body in a safe and removing that in a sinkhole

-Me losing my page

-Me spilling something sticky on book

-Her father smashing boat in a bottle

I know that the synthesis blog site (woot woot!) doesn’t usually cover books. However, Sebold has written an inversed novel. I mean, heaven is made to be a dark place and the murder was described as an art. Maybe some 21st century female Edgar Allen Poe type thing? I’ll keep you posted.

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