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Sarah's Key
Room
Rainwater
The Help
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Lightning Thief
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Notebook
Eat, Pray, Love
The Time Traveler's Wife
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

One of Gaiman's classics

Coraline
Coraline

By: Neil Gaiman

Genre:  Juvenile fiction

Pages: 162

Published: 2002

Audiobook: 3 discs (3 hours)

Read: August

3 0ut of 5


Gaiman has the gift of writing and a special talent of writing scary books for children. Sometimes I am surprised he can get away it. I definitely see this book as being too frightening for some younger children. The reader can definitely get hooked by this book. However, at one point near the end Coraline wakes up from her dream/nightmare and I felt that should have been the end of story. I completely lost interest after that. I do love the way Gaiman has of encouraging all his readers to get in touch with their vivid imagination. I am going to watch the movie now and see if it changes my view on the ending of this unique story. 

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