50bookchallenge, 15000pages
Book #81 -- Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, 337 pages.
I think this is the first time I've read a book by Neil Gaiman aimed specifically at Young Adults. The plot of the young orphan boy raised in a graveyard by ghosts is a really quite macabre version of the 'it takes a village to raise a child' idea, and the whole book is quite fun, but being Neil Gaiman he has to do one better by brining in all kinds of notions about the nature of Life and Death and Change and Growth. I may even have to buy a copy of the official release when it comes out, because the cover says "with Illustrations by Dave McKean", but of course the ARC doesn't include the illustrations, and I'd love to see what McKean does with some of the characters.
Progress toward goals: 207/366 = 56.6%
Books: 54.0%
Pages: 22052/50000 = 44.1%
2008 Book List
cross-posted to 15000pages, 50bookchallenge, and gwynraven
I think this is the first time I've read a book by Neil Gaiman aimed specifically at Young Adults. The plot of the young orphan boy raised in a graveyard by ghosts is a really quite macabre version of the 'it takes a village to raise a child' idea, and the whole book is quite fun, but being Neil Gaiman he has to do one better by brining in all kinds of notions about the nature of Life and Death and Change and Growth. I may even have to buy a copy of the official release when it comes out, because the cover says "with Illustrations by Dave McKean", but of course the ARC doesn't include the illustrations, and I'd love to see what McKean does with some of the characters.
Progress toward goals: 207/366 = 56.6%
Books: 54.0%
Pages: 22052/50000 = 44.1%
2008 Book List
cross-posted to 15000pages, 50bookchallenge, and gwynraven