Comments on: Booker Prize, Google Notebook & Alice Sebold http://writerunboxed.com/2007/10/17/booker-prize-google-notebook-alice-sebold/ About the craft and business of genre fiction Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:06:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Ann Marshall http://writerunboxed.com/2007/10/17/booker-prize-google-notebook-alice-sebold/#comment-45386 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:08:47 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/10/17/booker-prize-google-notebook-alice-sebold/#comment-45386 I recently finished Sebold's "The Almost Moon," and found it be great. This is my introduction to Alice Sebold. Today (12/09/07) I finished reading "Lucky." "Lucky" is a stunning book of her telling "her truth." Survivors of sexual abuse travel a continuum of healing forever. My own personal story of telling began 18 years ago. I seem to have a starting place of telling my story. I was sexually abused by friends and neighbors of my family. Incest included both my mother, father and only sibling, an older brother, and extended to include both sets of grandparents. Upon first ever telling someone about what memories I had always had, I began to get memories of Satanic abuse. I was raised in a Satanic cult, headed by my mother. At 63 yrs., if approached with something that triggers me, I will say that I was raised in a Satanic cult. MY TRUTH! I can't wait to read "The Lovely Bones." Alice Sebold is a terrific writer. THANK YOU ALICE. I recently finished Sebold’s “The Almost Moon,” and found it be great. This is my introduction to Alice Sebold. Today (12/09/07) I finished reading “Lucky.” “Lucky” is a stunning book of her telling “her truth.” Survivors of sexual abuse travel a continuum of healing forever. My own personal story of telling began 18 years ago. I seem to have a starting place of telling my story. I was sexually abused by friends and neighbors of my family. Incest included both my mother, father and only sibling, an older brother, and extended to include both sets of grandparents. Upon first ever telling someone about what memories I had always had, I began to get memories of Satanic abuse. I was raised in a Satanic cult, headed by my mother. At 63 yrs., if approached with something that triggers me, I will say that I was raised in a Satanic cult. MY TRUTH!
I can’t wait to read “The Lovely Bones.” Alice Sebold is a terrific writer. THANK YOU ALICE.

]]> by: maureen http://writerunboxed.com/2007/10/17/booker-prize-google-notebook-alice-sebold/#comment-34112 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:21:55 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/10/17/booker-prize-google-notebook-alice-sebold/#comment-34112 Lovely Bones kept me reading till the end and I finished in 2 hrs. It amazes me how gritty and intricate the story was and that it could be written by a woman. Now there's a mind I would like to explore. Good work, Alice. Reading the first few lines got me hooked and I am anxious to get to the nearest Barnes and Nobles. Lovely Bones kept me reading till the end and I finished in 2 hrs. It amazes me how gritty and intricate the story was and that it could be written by a woman. Now there’s a mind I would like to explore. Good work, Alice. Reading the first few lines got me hooked and I am anxious to get to the nearest Barnes and Nobles.

]]> by: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2007/10/17/booker-prize-google-notebook-alice-sebold/#comment-27696 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:46:34 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/10/17/booker-prize-google-notebook-alice-sebold/#comment-27696 More on this, for interested parties, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_en_ot/book_review_almost_moon" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>. "Helen was Seibold's Biggest Mistake." More on this, for interested parties, HERE. “Helen was Seibold’s Biggest Mistake.”

]]> by: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2007/10/17/booker-prize-google-notebook-alice-sebold/#comment-26325 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:41:36 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/10/17/booker-prize-google-notebook-alice-sebold/#comment-26325 Jeeze, wasn't Lovely Bones a murder-mystery that was pretty painful at times to read? I don't think Sebold would get this kind of s**t if she were a guy. I really don't. Disheartening is the word I'm thinking of. Jeeze, wasn’t Lovely Bones a murder-mystery that was pretty painful at times to read?

I don’t think Sebold would get this kind of s**t if she were a guy. I really don’t.

Disheartening is the word I’m thinking of.

]]> by: Robert http://writerunboxed.com/2007/10/17/booker-prize-google-notebook-alice-sebold/#comment-26320 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:58:30 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2007/10/17/booker-prize-google-notebook-alice-sebold/#comment-26320 I enjoyed *Lovely Bones* -- it was well-executed and kept me reading, something I wouldn't have expected from a book with the plot, as USA Today put it, "...narrated from heaven by a girl who is murdered by a serial killer." That said, I probably would not have sought out the next Sebold to read unless by accident. The snippets above, and particularly the interview portion, makes me want to read *The Almost Moon.* I enjoyed *Lovely Bones* — it was well-executed and kept me reading, something I wouldn’t have expected from a book with the plot, as USA Today put it, “…narrated from heaven by a girl who is murdered by a serial killer.” That said, I probably would not have sought out the next Sebold to read unless by accident.

The snippets above, and particularly the interview portion, makes me want to read *The Almost Moon.*

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