The Lovely Bones
I've stepped up my reading rate, hoping it will help prepare me for the writing of my next (fifth) novel which I want to be much better than the others. This is one of the contemporary novels I chose to read:
The Lovely Bones
By Alice Sebold
Its a fascinating novel told from the point of view of a murdered child. Very unique! The child explained how she'd been victimized and spent much of her time watching her family and friends as they reacted to and then attempted to cope with the horrible news of what happened to her.
In the end I felt the greatest benefit of this novel, for me, was to help me empathize with the extreme suffering the parents of murdered children go through. I had no idea how bad it was, and this book took me there and made me feel a glimmering of their pain.
Thank you for that, Alice!
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