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The Graveyard Book
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Start date
May 1, 2014
Finish date
May 31, 2014
Why we're reading this
Chosen as May BOTM

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Catsalive
Feb 24, 2015 rated it liked it
Shelves: 2015
A lovely book. I enjoyed Bod's story. I'm a bit disappointed in the ending. After all, although we leave childhood behind as we head into the adult world, we never lose it completely.

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Heather
Nov 16, 2022 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Fantastic! I can't believe I waited so long to get to this one. The audiobook is fully dramatized with a voice actor for each role, music, sound effects... it's immersive, dazzling. A story that begins in murder and horror but continues with such heart, such tenderness, such whimsy even... this book is an absolute treasure!

I absolutely adore it from beginning to end and I'll be listening to it again and again for years to come. Amazing world building, honestly, I'd love to see some sort of sequ
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Trisha
Sep 22, 2010 rated it liked it
10/16 Mother/daughter book club 10am

a book that takes an very light note of a very very tough and (what could be) very violent themes. I thought it handled it well and it made you think. The girls in our book club had lots to talk about!
Chris
May 12, 2009 rated it liked it
Shelves: fiction, ya-fiction
Enid S.
Jul 01, 2009 rated it really liked it
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Jul 31, 2009 rated it it was amazing
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Jul 15, 2010 marked it as to-read
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Nov 06, 2010 rated it it was amazing
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Sep 22, 2011 rated it it was ok
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Dec 05, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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Feb 14, 2012 rated it really liked it
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Andreas Payer
Jan 06, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Jacqueline
Apr 14, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2015
KC
Jul 27, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Amber
Mar 07, 2023 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition