book post written in post-finishing-book consternation

[jade_sabre_301]

The Graveyard Book, by Neil GaimanA baby arrives at a graveyard. Mrs. Owens, one of the graveyard's inhabitants, sees the ghost of the baby's mother, and promises to take care of the dead woman's son. He is assigned to the guardianship of a graveyard denizen with the ability to step into the outside world, and spends his days learning from ghosts

Comments

[queercherry]

I cannot read this entry because it's about two books that I have been meaning to read for forever and haven't gotten around to yet.
:c

[raptor1313]

I think that people should certainly read All Quiet on the Western Front, but I'm with you on the whole 'background' thing. You don't get much out of a work like that without understanding the historical context; WWI was a bad example of how to be a gracious winner (with the sequel of WWII and angry Germans as a bit of a case-in-point) but again just 'Yeah, the Germans, They Lost' is not enough

[nessismore]

Clearly I should have looked through your books tag before I posted my "book suggestions post." Am going through right now and tabbing which ones I want to read.