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The Graveyard Book
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Avigail
Dec 30, 2022 rated it really liked it
The Graveyard Book is the second Neil Gaiman book I read. I liked it better than my first read, and I believe the full-cast audiobook bumped up the rating.
The plot's premise is interesting; I would give this book to more mature middle-grade children to read because some scenes are difficult to swallow.
The idea of naming our main character Nobody brings a little bit of the myth from the Odyssey on the island of the cyclopes, where Odysseus tells the blind Cyclopes his name is Nobody. So the J
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Beth
Dec 06, 2014 rated it really liked it
Fun book. Shame about the author.

I’d be a bit worried about handing it to a sensitive under-7 kid because of the murder in the first chapter.
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