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... Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
32. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
33. Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
34. The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
35. Change Of Heart by Jodi Picoult
36. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
37. Pretty Things by Sarra Manning
3 ... ... For One More Day by Mitch Albom
32. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
33. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
34. The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
35. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
36. I've Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark
37. The Archivist by Martha C ... ... and misanthropy all the lit teachers played down when teaching him in undergrad. I'm guessing it's the latter!
82. The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Meh. It was no The Lovely Bones, although I sympathize with the sophomore slump. Sebold focuses too much on interesting anecdotes ... ... trademark magical realism, I can see how it might not work for you.
The last book I abandoned was Alice Sebold's The Almost Moon. I really enjoyed The Lovely Bones and Lucky, but I couldn't make it past page 50...it was just bad. ... So that novels that once would have been labelled "crime" or "thriller" are now just considered "literary fiction". The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold, Church of the Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, to name just a few, are all genre ... Ok, I've just posted The Almost Moon in hardcover in my inventory, available exclusively to you lot for seven days. My BookMooch ID is kayhardtmann I finished The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Truly, I could not recommend this book. 20. The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Unliked Sebold's previous books, I really could not recommend this one.
She did the same thing in this book as she did in The Lovely Bones--concluded with a real weird ending! Yikes ... Still life with elephant– Judy Reene Singer
02/16/08 The perks of being a wallflower –Stephen Chbosky
02/17/08 The almost moon – Alice Sebold.
02/20/08 Love warps the mind a little – John Dufresne
02/21/98 Rape: a love story – Joyce Carol Oates
02/22/08 Walking ... Thanks for affirming my decision to skip reading The Almost Moon. I was "on the fence" for awhile, but didn't want to waste my time with so many really good books out there. I'm also new to this group. ... Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
6.) Night by Elie Wiesel
7.) I Am America (and so can you!) by Stephen Colbert
8.) The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
9.) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
10.) Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
11.) Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
... ... m/wishlist/jhedlund
Currently reading: Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
Just Finished: The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
... and "witches," then check out this book!
When I went to the library earlier this week, I checked out Thornyhold, Almost Moon by Alice Sebold, The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan and Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. Instead of Lost in a Good Book, I wanted to get The ... ... Shut by David Rosenfelt
This character is a smartass (pardon my french) and very funny. I wish I were this funny!
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
A good effort by Alice, but I didn't love it as much as I loved The Lovely Bones but it was still hauntingly compelling.
Sex, Drug ... I'm reading The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold. I'm having trouble getting through it, but don't like to give up on any book. 5) Almost Moon by Alice Sebold it's a shame she only wrote one good book and this wasn't it. ... read it in high school. But I didn't have to, and that makes a world of difference.
I am in the beginning of two books, Almost Moon and Out Stealing Horses. Both are interesting so far. Both were picked up after discussion on LT. #68 - I thought The Almost Moon was a very good book, although it was disturbing. Also, I think The Patron Saint of Liars is my favorite Ann Patchett book.
I am currently reading What Maisie Knew by Henry James and enjoying it. A Civil Action is very good. I think you will enjoy it marianV. I just read The Almost Moon, which just really reached me since my grandmother has finally been diagnoised with dementia. Currently reading The Patron Saint of Liars and I am finding it to be very enjoyable. I finished The Almost Moon yesterday and quickly started Blaze soon after. I received 21 books for Christmas (I have trained everyone quite well) so I have many I am looking forward to reading. Happy New Year! For those loving Atonement - It is such a wonderful book. Thanks for making me think of it again.
I read The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold yesterday. I know many found this book horrifying, and I certainly didn't find it uplifting, but I thought it was really very, very good. It presented ... I started two books this week. I started Almost Moon by Alice Seabold. I read 37 pages and just could not do it. She kills her elderly mother. My own mother is elderly, but unlike the mother in the book she is not senile. I just could not read it. Maybe some other time.
I then started Bl ... ... In my top 10 books of all time. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
I too am very disappointed w/ reviews on The Almost Moon. It's also in my TBR pile and seems to be getting poor reviews all around. But I think I will still read for myself and make my own decision.
Just finished The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold. Sadly, the book doesn't measure up to her earlier work, The Lovely Bones.
I just put down The Almost Moon because I found it very disturbing.... but in the interest of full disclosure, I also put down The Lovely Bones back when it first came out and I tried to read it, and I know a lot of people really liked that. I just couldn't do it. So, maybe it's me... I just finished Behind the Smile by Marie Osmond What a sense of Humor!
I started Almost Moon by Alice Sebold. I just couldn't do it. I have read and liked her other two books Lucky and The Lovely Bones.
I am going to start Blind Instinct by Robert W. Walker.
#55 Wise ... Just finished The Almost Moon by Alice Seebold. If written by any other author, I would have logged it as "good." But having placed Seebold's The Lovely Bones on my Top 10 list in the past several years, her most recent work was a disappointment. Hope all is well. ... Economy by Bill McKibben
4. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama (to be published in Sept.)
5.The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (to be published in Sept.)
can't limit myself to 5 -
6. One Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini The Almost Moon was horrific. It was genuinly horrible. the first 50 pages were this:
1. a middle aged woman killed her 90 year old senile and sick mother by smothering her.
2. cleans the corpse.
3. calls her ex-lover to help her dispose of the corpse.
THAT'S IT! I was horrible ... to work my way through them. My best so far has been Away: a novel and my least favorite was the new Alice Sebold, The Almost Moon. Anyone else found anything exciting/disappointing? ... even more disconcerting.
As for me, 'm working through several of the galleys I picked up at BEA. I just finished The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold, and am sad to say that I didn't enjoy one word of it. It sets your skin crawling from the first page, and never redeems itself or gives ...
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