I just started reading
The Lovely Bones by
Alice Sebold, and I'm liking it a lot. It's a quirky, sad, and funny novel, told from the perspective of a 14-year old girl who's been murdered, and who's looking down from her own personal heaven on the lives of the people she loves. And that's about as far as I've gotten. I picked it up by chance in the bookstore, and ended up reading the entire first chapter before heading over to the cash register to pay for it. Yes, it was
that engaging. I love finding books that I've never heard of, purely by accident, and telling others about it. So consider yourselves told. It's a recommended read.