It is about a 14 year old girl who is murdered and watches her family from her “heaven” as they struggle with coping with her death and then find their own ways to move ahead with their lives. Much of the part of the story about her family is believable and brought back painful memories as to how my life was when my brother first died as opposed to what my life is now 6 ½ years later. It is amazing what death can do to a family, especially one so tragic as the murder of a 14 year old girl or a sudden death of a young person. Some families pull together and cling to one another and others are torn apart.
What I have a hard time with is that she watches them, misses them, visits them, tries to talk to them and on occasion reveals herself to them. I am not sure if I believe that is what Heaven is all about. Overall it was a good story and that is exactly what I took it for, a story. I guess that it could give some comfort to know that their loved ones are looking down on them from heaven but I would rather believe that my loved ones are up there having a good old time and not being sad or missing those that they left behind on earth. I wouldn’t want them to long for me or the rest of my family.
If you have read this book I would love to know your thoughts on it
ummm girl, you have thin mints in your midst and haven't wolfed them down yet?? ohhhhh, willpower of STEEL, i tell ya!
ReplyDeletelovely bones.
read it many years ago. liked the book, but had to read it just as a reader, not as a christian.
sometimes to have to wedge something written by an unbeliever (and i'm just assuming she is not one) into my christian worldview is unfair and just ruins it.she does not share my perception of heaven, but i'm okay with that. it's fiction, and i don't really think she has any kind of agenda to sway the reader's belief system.
i hope that makes sense.
as for the movie, esp after just having read the book, i heard it is super disappointing.
if you end up seeing it, lemme know.
I am putting that on my list. I know that the previews for the movie look really interesting. I think I need to do some shopping on Amazon!
ReplyDeleteI really loved this book. I don't share the same view of heaven as in this book but I read it as a story. Boy did it make me cry.
ReplyDeleteI'm hesitant about seeing the movie after hearing some bad reviews. I'll probably wait for the DVD.
Sonya, My Daughter has read the book and she just saw the movie too. She said the book was better. They left off a part that was in the book that would have been good in the movie.
ReplyDeleteHave missed you. How are you feeling?