THE LOVELY BONES

"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 lifeless body had been my life."

These are the words of one of the books that touched me the most; it's a somehow unusual plot as it is narrated by a dead girl. She was murdered, and from heaven (yes, from heaven) she watches her family being torn apart after her unexpected demise.

Turns out this book, first novel by Alice Sebold and quite an acclaimed one by critics, is turning into a movie, probably coming out next year. The cast is dreamy: Rachel Weisz (The constant Gardener), Mark Wahlberg (The departed, Planet of the Apes-wow came a long way Marky Mark), and Susan Sarandon (Thelma&Louise and a zillion more). Best thing: director is Peter Jackson so I expect nothing less than a masterpiece!

Will be eagerly waiting for this one. Really. Really really.

Still dwelling on the same subject (masterpiece books being adapted into usually crappy films), not to miss out the adaptation of Blindness by Saramago. Directed by the hype Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, and casting talents like Gael Garcia Benal and Julianne Moore.