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The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Start date: July 4, 2011

Finish date: July 4, 2011

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For someone who loves cemetaries and graveyards, this was a charming book. You need to read a YA book every now and again, to feel what it likes to have the world and all it's adventure open to you.

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Jun 26, 2011 Babs rated it really liked it

Do you like graveyards? I do. On vacation, I always make it a point to take in at least one historical cemetery. In a world composed of furious nanosecond sound bytes, a cemetary offers peace, reflection, and literary pause.

If you are of like mind, and/or perhaps had or have an imaginary friend (you are whimsical), and you have a nice rainy Sunday to tuck in...please read "The Graveyard Book."

This read is worth it alone for the catalog of tombstone epithets that the author uses to introduce cha ...more

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