Quixotical (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
This is an odd one. I read The Lovely Bones last year and absolutely loved it. The Almost Moon however, I’m not completely sure about. The subject is similarly difficult and thought provoking, but somehow it doesn’t have the soul of The Lovely Bones. The story opens with the narrator - Helen Knightly, a middle aged [...]
this ain't livin' (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
copyright meloukhia I picked this book up because I like Alice Sebold, so I thought it might be interesting, and I discovered, as we so often do, that second novels often lack the excellent of first novels, as though an author has to get into the swing of things before a third novel can be [...]
All About My Movies (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
The Lovely Bones. I was so busy celebrating the end of the exams that I nearly forgot to read, which would have been quite a crap way to start the “A book a day” campaign! Anyway. Today, I opted for a book I’ve read before and didn’t love – critical darling The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - to see whether my opinion of it would change in time for the 2009 release of the Peter Jackson directed film....
JournalHome.com Free Blog Host (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Book: The Almost Moon Author: Alice Sebold Review: This was an interesting read. The book takes place within twenty-four hours, if you don't count the lifetime of flashbacks. The main character, Helen, is called to her mother's house by her neighbor. Her Mother has been housebound for years, it is later revealed that she was agoraphobic. Helen's mother is obviously going downhill, and when it becomes...
Lover of Books (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
Clair and Helen Knightly have a complex mother/daughter relationship. Frustrated with looking after her mother, she ends up crossing a line she never thought possible. She kills her mother. She didn’t plan it but it takes care of an unconscious desire to be free of her. Over the next twenty-four hours, she must confront the freedom she never thought possible. Ms. Sebold can write such haunting fiction....
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
More challenges every day. Sigh. Including YA books that include the “n-word” and that paragon of artless smut …. Alice Sebold? A long-running bestseller, “The Lovely Bones,” tells the story of a 14-year-old girl who was raped and killed by a neighbor. The book remains popular in local libraries and soon will be made into a [...]
Trashionista (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Alice Sebold's memoir of the brutal rape and beating she suffered as an eighteen-year-old college student is something I have been meaning to read for a long time. Knowing it was going to be tough, I kept putting it off, but I am so glad I got round to it in the end... Yes, it is very hard to read in places, but the majority of the book is about Sebold's (interesting - and a little crazy) family and...
Library Stuff (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
Boston Globe - "A novel by Alice Sebold kept in the John W. McDevitt Middle School library will remain there, despite a request from a parent to remove it." Interesting headline...a bit one sided.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
WALTHAM - A novel by Alice Sebold kept in the John W. McDevitt Middle School library will remain there, despite a request from a parent to remove it.
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 01/15/2008
Don't want to read these books? Now you don't have to! THE ALMOST MOON by Alice Sebold – The narrator kills herself. THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini – The main character kills her husband with a shovel, and the Taliban executes her. A LICK OF FROST by Laurell K. Hamilton – Princess Meredith earns the throne and [...]
PaperCuts (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Five years after the smash hit The Lovely Bones hit shelves, Alice Sebold fans have been itching for her sophomore novel. FINALLY The Almost Moon came out a few months ago and sadly I was underwhelmed.The premise is a good...
a peek inside the fish bowl (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It has been keeping me awake at night. Share This
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 12/22/2007
... an interview with crime fiction writer Sophie Hannah. ... a review of Alice Sebold's new book The Almost Moon. (The reviewer is not impressed. I haven't read the book myself, but I wasn't impressed by the reading and Q&A session that Sebold gave at the Barnes & Noble Union Square store in New York last October. I was in the audience, and thought her answers weren't particularly elaborate or very...
/Film (Free subscription) | 12/05/2007
Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold best-selling novel The Lovely Bones is preparing to shoot in the MacDade Mall in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania. (...) Comment on this now or read more at slashfilm.com . Tags: Peter Jackson , The Lovely Bones
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 12/05/2007
Here's one more picture from Reykjavik's BMM bookstore that I think the more literary-inclined among you might enjoy: Alice Sebold's...
