My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. This is the opener to Alice Sebold's top selling novel, The Lovely Bones. The novel begins when fourteen year old Susie Salmon is murdered by her next door neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Trust me I'm not spoiling anything by telling you that. You are taken on an adventure with the Salmon family, Susie's murderer, and the police men trying to solve her case. As you read this you feel as if you know Susie and you experienced her death with her family. Sebold has a way with words to say the least. You feel more and more connected to these characters the more you read. I read this in four days flat. You may already know that this book was adapted into a film last year starring Mark Wahlberg and Susan Sarandon. Some people who have read the book and then seen the movie have said that the movie was awful. I have to disagree with that. I always go into the theater with an open mind especially when its an adapted novel. The Lovely Bones is 465 pages and set over a ten year time span obviously a movie could never dream of including all of the events of a four hundred page book unless you want to watch a seven hour movie. I feel like Peter Jackson and his crew did a great job in adapting this novel. After reading The Lovely Bones I immediately read Sebold's other books; Lucky and The Almost Moon which are also wonderful.
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