““Cats don’t have names,” it said. “No?” said Coraline. “No,” said the…” — Coraline 📚 log(book)

I'm currently behind on reviews, so don't be surprised if the recent reviews are a bit sparse.

“Cats don’t have names,” it said.
“No?” said Coraline.
“No,” said the cat. “Now you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.”

Cover of Coraline.

Coraline

by Neil Gaiman · published 2002 · read 2003-02-01

★★★★★

Coraline is a wonderful book. Terrifying, too. Coraline and her parents move to a new place, where there's nothing apart from the other (strange!) people living in the house. Her parents are busy all day, and she's just left to her own devices. So she wanders around and eventually finds a mirror world, where everything is duplicated, only uncanny and weird – and where she finds parents who love her and have time for her. Now if only they were human.