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As a novel: 4 stars
audiobook: 3.5 stars
Sorry Neil Gaiman, your narration of this didn't engage me as I'd hoped. I like the voices in my head better.
This is an enjoyable story. Bod/Nobody is a smart, curious caring boy whose origins are shrouded in mystery. At least for him. We know the truth. Or at least...part of it.
I liked the mystery of this. There is some good world building. I loved the characters of the graveyard ghosts and other creatures that are there. Some good adventure elements and I ...more
audiobook: 3.5 stars
Sorry Neil Gaiman, your narration of this didn't engage me as I'd hoped. I like the voices in my head better.
This is an enjoyable story. Bod/Nobody is a smart, curious caring boy whose origins are shrouded in mystery. At least for him. We know the truth. Or at least...part of it.
I liked the mystery of this. There is some good world building. I loved the characters of the graveyard ghosts and other creatures that are there. Some good adventure elements and I ...more
This book is just wonderfully creepy. If Goodreads had a 4.5 rating, that's what I would have given this novel.
The Graveyard book tells the story of Nobody Owens (Bod for short), a boy growing up in a graveyard among the ghosts after the murder of his family. The story is sequential, but hops around from one event to another in Bod's life. Each little tale is accompanied by beautiful illustrations. This is definitely a book to own a hard copy of, and not an e-version. All of the short episodes ...more
The Graveyard book tells the story of Nobody Owens (Bod for short), a boy growing up in a graveyard among the ghosts after the murder of his family. The story is sequential, but hops around from one event to another in Bod's life. Each little tale is accompanied by beautiful illustrations. This is definitely a book to own a hard copy of, and not an e-version. All of the short episodes ...more
Nobody Owens grew up in a graveyard for the reason that his family was murdered by a guy name Jack. In the graveyard he can see and chatter with the dead people and there he found his new parents and a guardian. The inhabitants of the graveyard decided that he ought to stay until he is a grown-up and can handle to take care of himself alone, also the fact that there’s a killer looking for him. While staying in the graveyard compound he learned a lot of things that nobody can ever learn inside sc
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“Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?”
Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. “He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We could call him Marcus.”
Josiah Worthington said, “He looks more like my head gardener, Stebbins. Not that I’m suggesting Stebbins as a name. The man drank like a fish.”
“He looks like my nephew Harry,” said Mother Slaughter…
“He looks like nobody but himself,” said Mrs.Owens, firmly. “He looks like nobody.”
“Then Nobody it is,” said Silas. “Nobody Owens.”
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