The Annual Back to School Column: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline
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» WebbQuest - Beguiling Coraline
I really enjoyed reading your article - and thanks for the plug! Your description of Coraline's alternative "adventure" is chillingly detailed, to the point of feeling the author's rather dark intentions. Perhaps I'm looking too far into the walls.-- posted by WebbQuest
» Renie_Burghardt - Coraline
Hi Pamela, I loved your review of this book. I think I'll buy it for my granddaughter, and read it before I give it to her.
Since she loves Harry Potter, I know she will enjoy Coraline. Thanks for a great review. Hope things have cooled off in your neck of the woods. Take care! Renie
-- posted by Renie_Burghardt
» Irene Tanner-Yuen - Coraline
I am so glad someone wrote a review on this book (having just posted an article on an older Gaiman book at my Suite101 topic)! I've not read Coraline yet but I am looking forward to getting my mitts on it--sounds wonderfulIrene
-- posted by Irene Tanner-Yuen
» pamela_saint - Re: Beguiling Coraline
In response to message posted by WebbQuest:Hi Sara,
It is a wonderfully creepy book. I have a yen, now, for reading only children's literature and for returning to Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Perhaps September and the return to school make me regress...
-- posted by pamela_saint
» pamela_saint - Re: Coraline
In response to message posted by Renie_Burghardt:Hi Renie,
I hope your granddaughter, in addition to you (!), enjoys it. I wish I had Gaiman's gifted imagination.
Cool yes, but also very, very soggy. I'm feeling like a hothouse tomato, permanently misted and damp. I can't wait for the autumn colors to paint the shore.
Thanks for stopping in for a visit!
-- posted by pamela_saint
» pentimento - The levels of fantasy
Pamela,Thanks for writing up this book. As soon as I have some down time, I am definitely going to pick it up.
The whole adult vs. children's fantasy is strange... I'm not much into adult fantasy but children's fantasy somehow feels very compelling.
Regina Sewell
-- posted by pentimento
» pamela_saint - Re: The levels of fantasy
In response to message posted by pentimento:Hi Regina,
Yes, children's fantasy appeals to me, too, perhaps because when we were children fantasy didn't seem so far fetched, and it's comforting to sink back into that mindset and keep the adult baggage circling for a few hours.
Thanks for dropping by,
Pamela
-- posted by pamela_saint
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