Showing posts with label alice sebold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alice sebold. Show all posts

Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold


OK. I gave it 2 stars and it only got such a high mark from me because I liked the concept. The story was horrible. I hated so much of it and I really wanted to throw the book across the room but the kiddies were asleep and I didn't want to wake them but I threw it in the morning when they were awake!.
The book dragged and there was a lot of unnecessary content. I got kinda excited when Lindsey broke into Harvey's house but for what? Nothing happened thereafter! ARGH!! I also hated the whole Ray thing. I liked that they had a little cutesy romance but the whole "Ghost" story just pissed me off. I think that's what did it for me! After reading that I just couldn't believe the garbage!
A lot of my friends said that they cried and it was such a beautiful story...Why did I wanna bash my skull in? ARGH!!!! OK. I am done with this review. It only makes me more angry that I wasted 2 1/2 days in reading it.

I also had to put House of Leaves away for awhile. I just wasn't getting into it. I am sure it's a great read in all, but I am just not in the mood. I am reading Push now by Sapphire. I should be done by the end of the day (I love those one day reads!). It is quite interesting and heartbreaking. Thereafter, I don't know what else to read. I won two books on Goodreads: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer and Hummingbirds: A Novel by Joshua Gaylord. I will read them as soon as they arrive. I may just read a YA just cause it's a quick read (either People of Sparks or Rebel Angels, they are both parts 2's of previous books I've read.
Oh well, stay tuned for my review of Push.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

the Almost Moon

Well I just finished reading The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold and I gave it 2 of 5 stars on http://www.goodreads.com/. I just didn't really care for it. I know Lovely Bones and Lucky were faves of many people and Lovely Bones was a #1 Bestseller but I have yet to read them. I guess that is a good thing considering if I read a great book by an author just to get my hopes up on another one they may have wrote just to find it to be crap! I mean, well, I just didn't like it. I felt it was a waste of a story. I will still attempt to read The Lovely Bones simply out of curiosity and also because I got a copy of it at a Yard sale.



I am now going to start to read Loving Frank by Nany Horan. I hear great thinga bout this book. It is also a New York Times Bestseller.


I posted a link from Random House above this just to give you an idea of what it is about. It is def much different from what I just read.