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My Tragic Right Hip (Free subscription) | 27/12/2008
I finished up The Almost Moon , Alice Sebold's second novel, this morning. Having read most of this book in a fluish fever, I'm not really sure what to write. Overall? I'd say that the story remains utterly unconvincing from start to finish because I didn't sympathize in any way with main character, Helen Knightly. The novel starts off with a very strong first sentence: "When all is said and done,...
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Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
Brian Eno will provide an original score for Peter Jackson's adaptation of the bestselling novel, The Lovely Bones. The talented and legendary musician/producer doesn't score many films, but he should. From The Playlist article about the announcement: Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" takes place, or part of it at least, in heaven, so who better to provide that blissful and...
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Hello, My Name Is Alice (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
The Almost Moon By Alice Sebold Publisher: Picador Published: 2007 ISBN-13: 9780330451376 291 pages Page 133: "Mom's different, right?" I asked. […] "I like to think that your mother is almost whole," he said. "So much in life is about almosts, not quites." "Like the moon," I said. There it hung, a thin slice still low in the sky. "Right," he said. "The moon is whole all the time, but we can't always...
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Joystory (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
The Lovely Bones A Novel by Alice Sebold (c) 2002 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pages: 352 In preparing to write my own review of The Lovely Bones, I went looking online for reminders of the character's names and plot events etc because it's been weeks since I finished the novel and I've read several more since then. I noticed a pattern in that the ones most likely to appear in 'respectable' publications...
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Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
THE ALMOST MOON BY ALICE SEBOLD (Picador, £7.99)
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ysmarko (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
The Almost Moon , by Alice Sebold having deeply enjoyed this author’s book the lovely bones, i was looking forward to diving into this book. and, while i did finish the book, and did find things about it that were worthwhile, i had a hard time. it’s just such a completely depressing story! holy cow. it’s interesting: i read this book just after finishing howard dully’s non-fiction autobiography, my...
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http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Stuff A small group of select media in London has been given a sneak preview of scenes from Peter Jackson's next movie The Lovely Bones. The film, based on the novel by Alice Sebold about the aftermath… Read the full article here
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Ace and Hoser Blook (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold Literature This is a very troubling book. It all takes place in the span of 24 hours after Helen murders her mother. Helen's mother, Clair is mentally ill and very demanding on her daughter. She also suffers from agoraphobia, the fear of leaving your own home. When a neighbour calls Helen to tell her that her mother does not even recognize her, Helen goes over to find...
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Jennifer Saylor, Freelance Writer (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
“It’s very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.” - Alice Sebold According to the Writer’s Almanac, novelist Alice Sebold was raped as a young woman and spent the next 15 years struggling to have relationships with others [...]
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Quixotical (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
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 [...]
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JournalHome.com Free Blog Host (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
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...
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Reading matters (Free subscription) | 22/12/2007
... 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...
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/Film (Free subscription) | 05/12/2007
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
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Times Online - Guest contributors (Free subscription) | 20/11/2007
We shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but for the hardback book I'll make an exception. Overhyped, overpriced and now, thank heaven, oh so over. Picador, purveyors of fine fiction from Alan Hollinghurst, Graham Swift, Helen Fielding and Alice Sebold, have announced the end of this “moribund format” from next year.
