[Nicholas S. Folsom]

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

I really, really hope this is done WELL by Peter Jackson, his wife Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens. This is one of the most beautiful books ever written. By that I mean about the afterlife... Simply amazing. My eyes tear at the thought of it.

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life." – Susie, page 320.