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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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Mar 07, 2013 jess rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobook-d, yaf, 2013

This book starts out with a giant knife and keeps moving briskly. It's simple enough for children to follow, but it isn't too dumb for grown-ups. The peripheral characters in the graveyard are kind of amazing - Bod's living friend Scarlett, Liza the witch, Nehemiah Trot, a dead poet full of advice, Old Mother Slaughter whose gravestone is so worn it only reads "LAUGH." Everything is very charmingly macabre and creepy. I liked that there were big, very scary conflicts in addition to the constant, ...more

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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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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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