Lovely Bones

So the main thing that happened is that Lindsey now is trying to find proof that Mr. Harvey is the killer, to help her dad. She sneaks into his house one day and finds his sketchbook in his room and finds a blueprint of the little underground hole that Susie was killed in. She steals it but Mr. Harvey comes home, hears creaks in his room and goes upstairs. She jumps out the window and runs home but Mr. Harvey knows its her. I wonder what that would mean to the future events in the story and what Mr. Harvey is gonna do.


My favorite part of the book, even though it was really short, was when Susie was up in heaven. She was there and Franny showed her a map to a place in her heaven. Susie followed the map and found a girl named Leah Hernandez. Earlier in the story it told you that Leah was one of the people Mr. Harvey killed when she was just 12 years old. And there in that part of heaven, everyone else who was killed by Mr. Harvey came and they shared thier stories. Here's a quote:

"Our heartache poured into one another like water from cup to cup. Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain."

And another:

"Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained"

So now in my book they go into a lot about Susie's family and their reactions.

Susie had a little brother and little sister. Her brother was about 4 years old and his name is Buckley and her little sister was 13 (just a year younger) and her name is Lindsey. This part about the book is really sad. At first, when the police told them about the elbow and blood, they didn't tell the children. Then Lindsey found out and what she did was basically numb herself so she wouldn't feel. She wouldn't care about anyone else and didn't want their sympathy. There was a part in the book where the mother wanted the Lindsey to come swim with her but Lindsey shouted "I would rather die!" and the mother ran into her room and started to cry. It was so sad.And the dad has a hobby of making ships in the glass bottles and Susie was the only one who shared his interest so when she died, he went in his den and broke all of his ships (there was A LOT). The mother and father avoid each other now basically, and the saddest part was when the father tried to explain what happened to Susie to 4 year old Buckley.

They were playing monopoly and the father was talking to Buckley. He was saying that Susie always played with the shoe so susie was the shoe now and all the other pieces were his family and friends and the board was the world. So they set up the game and his father said "Susie is dead, do you knw what that means?" and Buckley covered the shoe with his hand. Then the dad said "You won't see Susie anymore, none of us will" and started to cry.

So I lost Pride and Predjudice so I'm reading a new booknow...

I'm reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and it is about a girl named Susie who was murdered and is now telling a story from heaven. She was 14 when she was murdered walking home from school one day. Her neighbor, Mr. Harvey invited her to see something really cool and it was kind of like an underground hideout. She has pitied him, like most of the people in the neighboorhood did, because he was lonely and his wife died, but then she started to feel uncomfortable there and wanted to leave but he wouldn't let her. He raped her and then took a knife and killed her. When I read this I was thinking (THIS DUDE IS SICK!!!!) and it was so sad too, and I hate the guy now because even though hes an evil, heartless loser he's still extremely smart (which makes me angry) because he takes time to think about EVERYTHING when he killed her (she wasn't the first person he killed), like to make sure it rained the day after (to erase evidence) and he dumped her body in a sinkhole. The only part of her they found was an elbow that one of the neighboorhood dogs found, and a lot of blood in the earth.So anyway now she's in heaven and in the heaven you get everything you desire (sort of) and you see other people if they desire the same things. Susie's heaven has a high school that she always used to admire and wanted to go to (she was in junior high) and she has a roomate named Holly and a sort of counselor named Franny who is actually one of her desires (because both her and Holly want their mom's and Franny is the closest thing.

I really like this book so far and this is all I'm going to write for now.

Pride and Prejudice

Now I'm reading the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. So far, the book is moving a little slow but interesting. I like the fact that you get to know the characters before or at the time anything really happens. I'm also beginning to see why Jane Austen is such a famous writer because I already like her style of writing although it is a little confusing sometimes. In the book so far, a character named Mr. Bingley moves into the town where the Bennet's stay and Mrs. Bennet wants one of her daughters to marry him because he is handsome and rich. He seems to admire Jane who is the eldest daughter. Mr. Bingley's friend, Mr. Darcy, who they said was proud and arrogant, doesn't like one of the daughters (Elizabeth) at first, but now admires her. It should be interesting to see what happens next.

Finished with Prep!

I finished my book Prep and well...I don't like it that much.
Most of the second half of the book is when Lee is a senior and in her senior year, she does some pretty stupid stuff. She's interviewed for the New York Times about her school and pretty much trashes it, so now everyone's mad at her.

Her best friend Martha becomes prefect and can't even be happy for her, which I don't get because I would be happy for my friends. In the book, this is what it said when Martha became prefect:
"My fear of what was to come next - her giddy disbelief, the welling nakedness of her feelings. Also how I might have to reassure her that she did deserve this. Or worst of all - that maybe she'd just be happy."
I don't understand Lee. To me, this make her a horrible friend. She doesn't want her best friend to be happy because she herself isn't happy. She also felt Martha didn't deserve it and that some girl Aspeth did just because Aspeth was basically the popular girl everyone knew?? It's so sad because she doesn't even like Aspeth.
Also, on her math final, she doesn't even bother doing it and Martha ends up doing it which she hates to do.

Something finally happens between her and her crush, Cross Sugarman who she's crushed on since freshman year...but I don't want to spoil it.
I just really don't like Lee so it makes it really hard for me to like this book.

This book reminded me of another book called Revenge of the Wannabes by Lisi Harrison so for anyone who liked Prep or is interested in it, you might want to read this book too.

The Book So Far

The book is okay so far. I don't really like the main character, Lee. I read pretty far into the book already and I find Lee to be very insecure and she her self-esteem was always very low. One thing I can like about her though, is her honesty and how observant she is.
Also, the book is a little rushed. This can be good and bad at times. I can expect that it's going so fast, considering she goes through all four years of high school in this book, but the transistions from grade to grade confuse me sometimes. I didn't realize it at all when she became a sophomore or a junior.

The book turned out to be the opposite of what I thought. It's not easy to relate to the characters in the book, and Lee is so different from me.

Prep

The book I chose to read was Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. The reason why was because I didn't find anything else that interested me, or maybe I did but didn't want to read it. I chose this one because I knew it probably wouldn't be so depressing. It's about a girl going through high school, which is another reason why I chose it because I figurerd it would be easy to relate to. The main character though, Lee Fiora, goes to a boarding school in Massachusetts.