“This one may have to go in my "unable to finish" pile.”
“Let me get this out of the way up front: Alice Sebold is an extraordinary author. As a fellow writer, I learned a lot from both of her novels just walking through how she handles a scene, or a flashback, or a set of dialog. Let me also get this out of the way: her subject matter bothers me on levels that I can barely describe. The Lovely Bones was extremely well-written, but, as a mother with two daughters, it brought a parent's nightmares to the page. The Almost Moon comes at you from a different tragic perspective, from a middle-aged mother who murders her dementia inflicted invalid mother. This was to much. I didn't want to finish it.”
