Life Changing Books
8 Books That Will Actually Change the Way You Think About Life
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"I read Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones when I was 12-years-old after stealing it off of my mom's bookshelf, and it was the first book that really shook me to my core. The themes within the novel are obviously as dark as it gets — a teenage girl is raped and murdered by her neighbour, and goes on to narrate the events that unfold for years afterward from her own version of heaven. It's a brutally sad story that still manages to find beauty within an unimaginable tragedy, and opened my eyes to a lot of things about womanhood, life, death, and grief that my pre-teen brain had yet to consider." — Quinn Keaney, editor, Entertainment