Jennifer's review
Coraline (P.S.) by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author!)
This book is delightfully creepy with a young heroine that I found very empowering. Each time I finish a book geared for younger readers I'm reminded of just how much elasticity we lose as we age. In Coraline, at one point a child easily accepts and adapts to an abrupt shift into a two-dimensional world, whereas an adult would feel more than a little insane suspending logic and flexibly adjusting to previously unreal circumstances. Somewhere throughout the years we do away with "could be" and settle firmly into what "is". What I love about reading Gaiman is that the "is" and "could be" of his worlds are interchangeable. What is, rarely is, and what could be, is.
Of interest are the "special features" included at the book'e end. I normally find these tedious since most of the time I'm not interested enough in the author to sift through all the pages and paragraphs devoted to themselves. I crave the magical creation s...more
Of interest are the "special features" included at the book'e end. I normally find these tedious since most of the time I'm not interested enough in the author to sift through all the pages and paragraphs devoted to themselves. I crave the magical creation s...more
