The Lovely Bones

I just finished reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold again, because it has been a couple of years since I read it and the movie is coming out soon. This is such a beautiful story dealing with a very difficult topic. I had forgotten a lot of it - there is some activity with Ray and Ruth near the end that I had totally blanked on.


I am looking forward to the movie. Susie is played by the girl who played the 13-year-old Briony in Atonement, who I think is a fabulous young actress. And I am looking forward to see how they create Susie's heaven.

I think that is my favorite part of the story - Sebold's idea of what heaven is like. That it's different for everyone, but that your heaven will intersect at some point with that of your loved ones. For anyone who has had a loved one die too young, it gives you a kind of hopefulness about where they are, what they're doing, and when you will see them again. At least that's what it did for me.