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This was a very quick read for me and while I enjoyed it I wish there was more. Gaiman shows us how we never truly leave our childhood behind but we do camouflage some of our harshest memories. The terrifying common thread we all share is our inability to control much of anything when we are young, especially that instinct we have as children for seeing a bad person that fools all the adults. He is a haunted man that never truly forgot the witches at the end of the lane, just tucked the memories
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When a man comes home to attend a funeral, he is drawn back to where he grew up. Even though his house no longer exists, he's drawn to the farmhouse at the end of the lane. It holds memories of a traumatic experience that set in motion a relationship with Lettie Hempstock, a magical young girl who was full of surprises. Neil Gaiman is a master at taking us into the mind of a child. Part reality, park fantasy, he weaves a wonderful story of what it is to be a 7 year old boy living through these l
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I loved this book. My feelings are summed up in the epigraph. It reminds me of our closeness to the Otherworld, of the danger of Natural forces, of the Triple Goddess and veils. And I am reminded in the elegance of simplicity. It is quintessential Gaiman.
"Nobody came to my seventh birthday party....Books were safer than other people anyway." [p. 9]
"Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; er hasp it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find spaces between fences." [p.56] ...more
"Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; er hasp it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find spaces between fences." [p.56] ...more
A beautiful marriage of our childhood and adulthood joy, fear, death and anguish blended so eloquently with the perfect amount of truth, magic, wonder and our memories of their existence! I did not want it to end but it did, of course, and im left savoring every magical moment!
I love how creative this was. A quick read yet so easy to buy into the characters.
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