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The Lovely Bones is a Best-seller novel (easy to read novel for a non-English speaker) by Alice Sebold, with around 300 pages. It is about a 14-year-old young woman who after being murder stays in her own heaven waiting for justice and watch how her family and friends deal with her death. The main storyline is how life goes by after Susie’s death, not her murder. The whole story is from Susie Salmon point of view, which I think makes the novel stand out from any other.

I read this book on November 2005, after an internet friend used it as inspiration for one of her on-line stories. Took me one week to finish the book, I just could not stop reading!. I want to make emphasis on how easy was for me to read Alice Sebold’s book, her use of common words and the easy way the story goes, makes The Lovely Bone an easy-to-read book for newbie.

When I visited London on the last weekend of January, I saw the poster from The Lovely Bone (Film) and I could not believe it! I was in my way to the next tube when there it was, the big poster, Next February 16th.

This is the second time, a book I have read comes out as a Film.

I liked the movie but there were too many scenarios missing which I think are keystones in the novel.  I guess because of the certification (PG-13) of the film those scenes were not added to the film. I don’t want to give any spoilers about the movie instead I recommend you to read the book after watching the movie, then you will realize that Peter Jackson (director of the film) lost the essence of the novel between trying to keep the movie PG and make it fit in fewer than 135 min.