Lucky

So on Monday, I left my Harry Potter at home, so while I dropped by the library that morning I asked Ms. Newman if she had any good nonfiction for me to read. She stopped whatever she was in the middle of doing and headed towards the biography/memoir section. She browsed the shelfs and handed me about six books that she thought would interest me. I chose three out of the six to check out.

The first one from my library stack is Lucky by Alice Sebold. I orginally chose it because I wanted to eventually read The Lovely Bones by Sebold. But I thought I'd read this anyways since it was available. And since I obviously need more nonfiction than fiction. After having it for about two days I've almost made it to 100 pages.

Lucky is about Sebold's rape and how she and those around were effected by it and dealt with it. I feel as if the tone of this book is very like that of In Cold Blood, though not a brutal and only told from the perspective of one person, Sebold. The book however, like In Cold Blood has that mysterious aura that I've loved since the days of Cam Jansen, Mary-Kate and Ashley and Nancy Drew mystery series.

Lucky also has a dysfunctional family angle like that of The Glass Castle and Running with Scissors. Her mother has fits, or "flaps" as Sebold and her sister Mary call them. Her mother has also dealt with alcoholism and a Valium addiction. Her father is an intellectual type, belonging to the faculty of the University of Pensylvannia, an expert in 18th century Spanish literature like Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha.

I am looking forward to see how this book is as a whole. I'm definitely intrigued by it, but I don't have a definite opinion of it yet.