The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

I just started the book "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold and it immediately started off with excitement. The main character Suzie Salmon is narrating the book from her prospective, in heaven. She can see everything that is happening on earth too. The first thing we find out is that she was murder on the way home from school. The description of her murder was so vivid I felt like I was there. I don't want to give it away, but it made me feel sick inside, to think that a human could do something so inhuman. As her murder kills her she slips into heaven and she as said before sees everything down on earth. I'm not too far into the story but there has been an investigation going on. The police can't find the place where she was murdered because it was in a storage place underground. What they do find however, is a body part. When Suzie sees this from heaven she is surprisngly happy because that would lead the police to finding her entire body. The story hasn't unraveled yet but I love the suspense. We also hear Suzies prospective from heaven and she describes that she has basically a utopia. Its everything she could have asked for at earth, except she's all alone. She does have a roommate but she is still scared. Can't wait to read how the investigation unwinds.

Finished Comfort Food!

I just finished the book Comfort Food and it was so good! It was a very easy read, and was extremely realistic. The way Gus was described made me feel as if I knew her. The story line seemed like a tv show that I had been watching for years. It was drama filled and had twists and turns but I really enjoyed it. Gus's show ends up getting canceled but is later joined with her neighbor Carmen to host a new show. Gus brings her family into the show to help keep her show "fresh". I thought that was really good because it could happen in real life. I didn't like how stuck up Gus was about the show, because she really wanted to do it alone. She just couldn't accept the fact that she was getting old and insisted on keeping the show to her self. Everything works out in the end and it was an appropriate ending for the book. I would recommend this book for, basically someone who loves comfort food. I feel like it was a bit too mature for me because of the difficult language it was written in. It felt a little dragged out and got kind of boring towards the middle but the ending did not disappoint :)