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The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Start date: October 1, 2019

Finish date: October 31, 2019

Discussion: 2019 Monthly Challenge

Discussion leader: Lauren Oertel

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Apr 22, 2012 Beth Given rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: newbery

I had promised myself that, after Coraline (which was just too twisted for me to enjoy), I wasn't going to read any more Gaiman. But this one won the Newbery, so I thought I'd thought I'd give Gaiman a second chance.

Well, it took me about two weeks to read, and it shouldn't have taken me so long ... but to be fair, it could have been that I just haven't been reading much the past couple weeks. That said, about two-thirds of the way through I was really hooked and finished the remainder in one si ...more

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Nov 13, 2016 Debbie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

In the interests of full disclosure, I am a big Neil Gaiman fan. I've read most of his books, I push them on my students and my children, and I've seen him in person to speak (including reading the entirety of Coraline).

I truly enjoyed this book. If you know Gaiman's style, you know that there's some formality to the writing, with a decent amount of subtle humor, irony, and allusion thrown in to keep both kids and adults guessing. I loved Bod from the beginning and enjoyed the way he grew up fro ...more

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Feb 26, 2020 Amy Ellis rated it really liked it

This was a really sweet story about a living boy raised in a graveyard among ghosts, who teach, protect, and love him. I can’t believe it took me so long to read it! Neil Gaiman is such a good storyteller! There is some violence, but nothing that exceeds Harry Potter-level, so I am fine with my kids reading this.

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Nov 30, 2012 Lisa rated it liked it

Shelves: children-s-lit, ghosts

It took me an incredibly long time to get through such an easy, short book. Though it is a middle grade book it starts out through the eyes of a killer as he is killing a familly and attempting; yet failing; to kill the youngest, a baby boy who escapes and grows up in a graveyard with ghosts for parents and the not dead/not alive guardian Silas.
I suppose my indifference to this book is mostly due to timing. When violence, and evil rise to the surface in the real world you don't want to escape in ...more

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