Continuing with Lovely Bones

There are absolutely no happy pages in this book to read, not even the very first one. As I continue with The Lovely Bones, the Salmon family starts to feel the effect of Susie being gone. Of course, when a family member passes away that is well known around your community, you get treated and looked at differently in school. When Lindsey gets called down to the principal's office to have the "talk" about loss, she doesn't even know what she's lost! She's oblivious until Mr. Caden basically threw all of the "Salmon girls" business on her. He deliberately put her on the spot and then immediately went on to another subject. He could of easily went a different way, but he didn't. Then, Lindsey breaks down hard and hysterically cries until that part of the chapter is over. In chapter 4, Mr. Salmon meets Mr. Harvey-the killer--without even knowing he was the killer! Weird. However, Mr. Salmon does become suspicious of where Mr. Harvey builds their tent, and how he responds to "You know something". Mr. Harvey says, "Go home, I can't help you". After becoming extremely suspicious, he calls Len, the detective, and asks him to get on the case. That's all I have gotten to this week. Hopefully it gets happier :)!!

Back to Lovely Bones!

Oh my, it's been a while. Anyway, I was totally right-Susie was definitely raped by that creepy old guy who lives in her neighborhood. Reading the several pages that described her rape was extremely grotesque (vocab word!!) because it went into such great detail. However, when the chapter ends, she is finally dead and talks about going to heaven and having "different heavens" than anybody else. Meaning, that if you desire the same thing as a certain person, like reading, you all will go to a library and read while others may be playing volleyball in a different heaven. It's very cool, and Susie can observe the living whenever she wants (not like another book I read called Elsewhere). Throughout the tidbits of heaven, Sebold goes back and forth with Earth as well and the investigation of Susie's body. Slowly but surely, cops continue to show up at the Salmon's household. Her mother in utter disbelief, her father being the peacekeeper in the house, and her sister slowly taking it all in. Her sister is dead, and there is investigation to find her body. They get word her elbow shows up in a field somewhere, her notes from "To Kill a Mockingbird". Meanwhile, Susie's crush Ray Singh is devastated as well immediately returning home right after school everyday, social suicide. Hopefully, the investigation continues! Maybe she'll find a way to communicate with her family? I really have no idea. I'm really excited to read the rest of this book.