<![CDATA[Coraline]]>

false <![CDATA[Coraline]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255716870m/17061.jpg 17061 55 Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a house so huge that other people live in it, too... round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ("We trod the boards, luvvy") and the mustachioed old man under the roof ("'The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,' said the man upstairs, 'is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.'") Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a little rain she becomes bored--so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that--sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks--opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. Now, if you're thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious. What's on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of... people who pronounce her name correctly (not "Caroline"), delicious meals (not like her father's overblown "recipes"), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents, her "other mother" and her "other father"--people who look just like her own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin... and a keen desire to keep her on their side of the door. To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended. (Ages 11 and older) --Karin Snelson 2834844 book 2002 Coraline total:20945|5:379|4:507|3:285|2:91|1:28| 20945 82341 29724 3084 4 28 false false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Jan 21 08:27:11 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 08:27:11 -0800 2008
I'm not exactly sure what to say about this minor gem. It's a kids' book, but not really a kids' book. It's a fantasy/horror novel, but not a fantasy/horror novel. It has minor similarities to about a hundred books to be found over the ages, both childre...more...]]> 5 19 false false Fri Nov 28 19:02:34 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 19:05:08 -0800 2008 1
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Hmmm...Bella reads the book, then I r...more...]]> 4 6 false false Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 20:03:32 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 12 20:03:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 5 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 19:01:15 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 08:56:13 -0800 2009 Coraline one night on my train-ride home from the city, and found myself immediately sucked into the story. My only prior exposure to Gaiman's work had been through the first installment of his Sandman comic-book series, which I thought mediocre at best, so I approached his children's novel ...more...]]> 2 6 false false Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 17:14:34 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 07:23:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 12:09:36 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 09:15:34 -0700 2007 Coraline, at one point a child easily accepts and adapts to an abrupt shift into a two-dimensional...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue May 29 07:15:39 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 07:15:59 -0700 2007
I really enjoyed this clever little novella, but then again, I enjoy mostly everything from Gaiman. This is a story of young Coraline (though often mistakenly, and to her despair, called Caroline) – a bored and curious gi...more...]]> 3 3 true false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 11:09:36 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 11:12:58 -0700 2007
Coraline makes her way through a door in her family's drawing room that leads to another version of her apartment including an alternate reality of her parents and neighbor...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 30 09:07:07 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 10:08:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 06 22:31:25 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 22:32:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 20:15:39 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 20:00:39 -0700 2008 Di bandi...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Dec 19 12:27:06 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 12:28:38 -0800 2007 Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite authors, I finally checked this YA novel out from the library and finished it in an hour or so.

A dark fairy-tale about Coraline, an adventurous & very bored girl who feels ignored by her parents an...more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Sep 18 16:56:23 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 16:14:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 22:34:42 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 22:35:20 -0700 2007
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