Hey bloggerverse!
I've started a second blog, all about my battle with the bulge! Don't worry, I won't be abandoning this one, I can write both!
So, take a look if you fancy it:
Stay happy!
WG x
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
The Lovely Bones, Alice Seabold
Synopsis: 'My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.'
This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet ...
My Thoughts: This is the second time that I’ve read Seabold’s beautiful and eloquent look at grief and death and is has only underlined what I believed the first time; this is a novel that is as close to perfect as you will ever find.
The prose is sparse but never lacking and flows in a way that makes the reader want to follow Susie as she guides the reader from one chapter to the next.
Susie herself is deliberately ‘the girl next door’ to drive home the horrible truth that the violence that she suffers could happen to everyone but she is never dull. The reader gets incredibly close-up to her and we experience her wants as she watches her family deal with the aftermath of her murder.
I particularly liked that Seabold has shied away from the stereotypical idea of Heaven being full of winged people and white lights, instead creating a Heaven in which each person can be as individual in death as they are in life.
Overall, Seabold’s novel is a sad but ultimately uplifting look at the darker side of life and how, with a little time and some patience, it is possible to see the light.
*****
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Tumble with me!
No, not like that - get your mind out of the gutter!
I've got a Tumblr account which I use to post pictures that interest me, quotes that I like and any other random junk that I fancy!
If you want to take a look then head to: http://writergirluk.tumblr.com/
Stay happy!
Writer Girl xxx
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