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This week’s read – The lovely bones

The Lovely Bone by Alice Sebold is one of those books that the English department love to recommend to the Int2 girls.  ”It’s really sad”, they say, “you’ll love it”.

They are right is is sad, though not in as depressing a way as might be expected given the narrator is a murdered 14 year old girl – Susie Salmon.

I can see why the english teachers like it – lots of character development and relationships to discuss plus the narration perspective. I did like it, it was easy to read and I wanted to know what happened. Despite the fact that ultimately not much did happen – life just carried on.

I was slightly disappointed with the ending – Sebold tried to wrap everything up at the end but I didn’t like the way she closed the Ruth and Ray characters relationship with Susie.

Light and easy to read but I’d recommend a box of tissues on hand.