I would have loved this book as a child, and I still love it as a grownup (Gaiman tends to write like that). It is paced well, written wonderfully and rings true (in a very similar way American Gods does, but a bit toned-down to the way children see the world). Technically it is a coming-of-age story. I spent a long afternoon reading it and feel a lot better for the time spent.
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The Graveyard Book
| author: | Neil Gaiman (2008) |
|---|---|
| date added: | 2015-04-08 |
| date read: | 2015-04-15 |
| pages: | 320 |
| author: | gender:male, origin:british |
| awards: | hugo-award, hugo-award-nominees, world-fantasy-award-nominees |
| genre: | fantasy |
| themes: | learning-the-arts |
| rating: | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ |
Quotes
Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure…
Face your life
Its pain,
Its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.
Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind,
Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,
Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,
Above, beneath, betwixt, between.
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