Review of Rachel Getting Married Movie - 4 out of 5 Stars

Even though this movie was different (original topic/original storyline) ... I really liked it. What it meant to me: what matters in life is your family. No matter how crazy and dysfunctional life is or family members are or family situations are - you are there for each other through thick and thin. If a tough situation comes up - you get through it and your honest with each other the whole way. I liked that it brought out the fact that no family is perfect and no relationship between siblings or parents/children is perfect - but you get through the hard times because you love each other, and well, in order to survive (and there's nothing that makes your relationships stronger than getting through the hard times).

Also - you have to forgive people (especially family), and you have to forgive yourself... no matter how hard it is.

The Lovely Bones Book Review

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
You know, for someone as open as I am to a lot of things, you are all probably going to be surprised when I say I thought the ending of the book was a little odd and over the top. I mean.... I just didn't think it fit with the rest of the book for some reason. I really liked the book until a bunch of body/soul swamping occurred and I still think that overall, the book was good, but .... I just couldn't stomach the ending.

I really liked the main girl and I felt that I could relate to her a lot. I specifically loved this quote: "I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture. When they were spent, I took the cubed four-corner flashbulbs and passed them from hand to hand until they cooled. The broken filaments of the flash would turn a molten marble blue or sometimes smoke the thing glass black. I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found a way to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it." This to me, explained every reason I love photography.... the experimentation, the trapping of time.... loved that quote and I found that there were a lot of hidden jewels like this within the book.

I wish I would have read this book with my book club because there were some really interesting discussion questions in the back of the book. One of the questions asked if the family went through a harder time dealing with her death than she did - I do think they had a harder time with it than she did and it made me think about the times in my life that I've had to deal with death... maybe sometimes it's just better to let go and move on. I know that sometimes this is impossible, but if we hold on to the past - how can we live in the future?

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