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The Almost Moon

Alice Sebold

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The Almost Moon Alice Sebold "I wanted to read The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold mainly because I thought that The Lovely Bones was one of the most beautifully written pieces of contemporary literature. The Almost Moon is about this woman named Helen who, in the opening sequence of the book, kills here elderly mother; and the book kind of then will go back into the past and show Helen as she was growing up with her mom and kind of almost try to redeem Helen by showing what a miserable childhood she had. I actually didn't like much about the book, but I oddly did feel -- I kept reading it because of feeling a connection with Helen. One of the -- the center of the book was her mom being agoraphobic as she was growing up, and that's sort of this affliction that seems to hit the women in my family; and I remember years when I was growing up that my mom wouldn't leave the house. So I completely could sympathize with the main character, so I kept reading, but there was really nothing I liked about the book. I just kept hoping for it to get better. Instead of giving this character some much needed redemption and maybe sympathy, you just kept seeing how this woman would just go and continue to destroy other people's lives. I passed this book along to a friend just because I wanted to make sure that this was a horrible book, but I actually wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I especially would tell anyone who read and loved The Lovely Bones just don't read this book. I would give the book two stars, and I'm giving it two just because I did continue to read it."