I finished The Mysterious Benedict Society, The Lovely Bones and The Actor and The Housewife. Go me!
The point of this post, though, is mostly to talk about The Lovely Bones. I held out reading it because I knew it was about the rape and murder of a teenage girl and I felt like I had to read it at the right time. Considering my stress levels this week, I don't know what possessed me to read it now, but I did and I loved it. It's a new top ten favorite. I love the characters and the story and the writing and everything. It could have gone to weird places, but it didn't really. There were a few overly supernatural parts, but I actually liked having them there because it tied up loose ends I desperately wanted to be tied up and thought would be left undone. It was heartbreaking and beautiful and even though I've been reading a lot of emotionally heavy books lately (The Book Thief, The Wednesday Letters, even The Glass Castle and, surprisingly, The Actor and The Housewife), this one just seemed to speak to me more than the others. I love the Salmon family and how broken they are. I guess the best word for it is that it's honest. It's a terrible story to tell, but everyone reacts the way real people do.
The strangest part about the book, though, was definitely the fact that the two sisters are named Susie and Lindsey, both names that belong to me. Haha. It just took a little bit more work to look past.
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I've been avoiding this one too. I started it a few months ago and got an idea of how depressing it was going to be, and then I saw how creepy the movie trailers were, and I just haven't gotten back to it yet.
Oh, and also, yay for The Mysterious Benedict Society! Where did you hear about that one? I looove those books, they're so great.
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I really loved the Lovely Bones until the end and I feel like the pacing was all wrong. I was really upset when it ended because I felt justice wasn't served...even though it was...? I don't know. Actor and the Housewife was another one I was a **little** disappointed with. I love Shannon Hale and really enjoyed the book but I felt a little tossed about with the way it ended. Both great books though, just left me a little unsatisfied.
Miri - Read Lovely Bones. It's worth it. And I found The Mysterious Benedict Society when I was shopping for my nephew last Christmas. I went back and got my own copy.
Melissa - I was actually really happy with the end because the entire time I was reading it, I just kept telling myself that things probably wouldn't get resolved and then they were. I would have preferred things end differently in some cases, but at least they were tied up somehow.
I was also a little disappointed with The Actor and The Housewife and it's ending...not what I wanted to happen, but it was well written and I enjoyed the banter between the two of them.
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