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The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Start date: December 21, 2011

Finish date: December 30, 2011

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May 18, 2011 Andrew rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Ok I will admit at times I feel uncomfortable seeing reviews or even just people reading books by popular authors - STOP - dont get me wrong they can be amazing I just feel that I would be following everyone else blindly heaping praise just so I can be seen to be following the trend.
Well sorry to disappoint - I am going to be joining those masses in following the joy and praise of reading Neil Gaiman. I read this book in an evening while trying to complete another of the Bromiliad (think thats ...more

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Aug 18, 2017 Carrie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: supernatural, family, death, goblins, orphan, ghosts, mgr, graveyard

Oh Mr. Gaiman you had me in tears in the end of this one.

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Oct 09, 2009 Amy rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, read-in-2010

Although I definitely enjoyed this one much more than Coraline, I'm still not over-enthused with this one. I enjoyed the beginning of the book but by the middle and end, I was just wanting it to be over. Which is never a good sign. I didn't hate the book but I certainly didn't love it as I'd hoped. I think one issue for me was nothing was particularly fleshed out ... each 'adventure' had such potential but never went as far as I'd liked it to have gone. I liked this one but I certainly didn't lo ...more

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Feb 19, 2012 Rachel rated it liked it

Shelves: ya-class

In the middle of the night, a baby escapes being murdered and finds his way into a graveyard. There, the ghosts of the graveyard adopt him and name him Nobody Owens – Bod for short. The book tells of his adventures being raised by ghosts and how he deals with going back and forth between the real world and the ghoul world. All in the while, his killer is still on the loose and hoping to find Bod again one day and seek revenge. This book features black and white illustrations at the beginning of ...more

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May 19, 2025 KayLynn Zollinger rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: juvenile-fiction, fairy-tale-retellings, young-adult, atwt-challenge-2025, urban-fantasy

I didn't realize when I first started this book, that it was a retelling of The Jungle Book. Honestly it said graveyard and was by Neil Gaiman and that was literally all I needed to know to want to read it.
I had a lovely little time as I read along trying to figure out which characters here translated to the characters in TJB. Some were obvious, Silas had to be Baghera. The Sleer had to be Kaa. Miss Lupescu is probably Baloo, but I wasn't sure. Anyways, it was rather clever and I enjoyed it. I ...more

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