Lovely Bones

So the main thing that happened is that Lindsey now is trying to find proof that Mr. Harvey is the killer, to help her dad. She sneaks into his house one day and finds his sketchbook in his room and finds a blueprint of the little underground hole that Susie was killed in. She steals it but Mr. Harvey comes home, hears creaks in his room and goes upstairs. She jumps out the window and runs home but Mr. Harvey knows its her. I wonder what that would mean to the future events in the story and what Mr. Harvey is gonna do.


My favorite part of the book, even though it was really short, was when Susie was up in heaven. She was there and Franny showed her a map to a place in her heaven. Susie followed the map and found a girl named Leah Hernandez. Earlier in the story it told you that Leah was one of the people Mr. Harvey killed when she was just 12 years old. And there in that part of heaven, everyone else who was killed by Mr. Harvey came and they shared thier stories. Here's a quote:

"Our heartache poured into one another like water from cup to cup. Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain."

And another:

"Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained"

So now in my book they go into a lot about Susie's family and their reactions.

Susie had a little brother and little sister. Her brother was about 4 years old and his name is Buckley and her little sister was 13 (just a year younger) and her name is Lindsey. This part about the book is really sad. At first, when the police told them about the elbow and blood, they didn't tell the children. Then Lindsey found out and what she did was basically numb herself so she wouldn't feel. She wouldn't care about anyone else and didn't want their sympathy. There was a part in the book where the mother wanted the Lindsey to come swim with her but Lindsey shouted "I would rather die!" and the mother ran into her room and started to cry. It was so sad.And the dad has a hobby of making ships in the glass bottles and Susie was the only one who shared his interest so when she died, he went in his den and broke all of his ships (there was A LOT). The mother and father avoid each other now basically, and the saddest part was when the father tried to explain what happened to Susie to 4 year old Buckley.

They were playing monopoly and the father was talking to Buckley. He was saying that Susie always played with the shoe so susie was the shoe now and all the other pieces were his family and friends and the board was the world. So they set up the game and his father said "Susie is dead, do you knw what that means?" and Buckley covered the shoe with his hand. Then the dad said "You won't see Susie anymore, none of us will" and started to cry.

So I lost Pride and Predjudice so I'm reading a new booknow...

I'm reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and it is about a girl named Susie who was murdered and is now telling a story from heaven. She was 14 when she was murdered walking home from school one day. Her neighbor, Mr. Harvey invited her to see something really cool and it was kind of like an underground hideout. She has pitied him, like most of the people in the neighboorhood did, because he was lonely and his wife died, but then she started to feel uncomfortable there and wanted to leave but he wouldn't let her. He raped her and then took a knife and killed her. When I read this I was thinking (THIS DUDE IS SICK!!!!) and it was so sad too, and I hate the guy now because even though hes an evil, heartless loser he's still extremely smart (which makes me angry) because he takes time to think about EVERYTHING when he killed her (she wasn't the first person he killed), like to make sure it rained the day after (to erase evidence) and he dumped her body in a sinkhole. The only part of her they found was an elbow that one of the neighboorhood dogs found, and a lot of blood in the earth.So anyway now she's in heaven and in the heaven you get everything you desire (sort of) and you see other people if they desire the same things. Susie's heaven has a high school that she always used to admire and wanted to go to (she was in junior high) and she has a roomate named Holly and a sort of counselor named Franny who is actually one of her desires (because both her and Holly want their mom's and Franny is the closest thing.

I really like this book so far and this is all I'm going to write for now.