The Lovely Bones

If you didn't read it, this was a pretty touching book with some very interesting and surprising choices made, from who narrates the book, to its description of the afterlife ... It's quite good and had I had a blog when I read it, I would have put a big recommendation behind it.

Anyway, the reason I mention it is that is being adapted into a film. By the same director who did Lord of the Rings and King Kong. Peter Jackson has proved he can do the big epics with sprawling stories. But little stories about a family?

I suspect he chose this one not only for its quality but for the opportunity for a wide array of special effects needed to tell it. So it will be very interesting to see what he comes up with when it's released next year.