The Graveyard Book
6 journalers for this copy...
n this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings—such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.
Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there are being such as ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other.
Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there are being such as ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other.
Taking this book to Cravings Market Restaurant for the October meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers.
Make sure to read Neil Gaiman's Newbery Award acceptance speech at the back of the book!
Make sure to read Neil Gaiman's Newbery Award acceptance speech at the back of the book!
Picked up at the October meeting, along with a cold it seems.
Taken to the November meeting!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
Picked up this book at the Calgary BookCrossing November meet-up. It's so weird that I haven't read a ton of Neil Gaiman's stuff. This will help to rectify that.
I can see why this won an award. Such a great story about growing up, but it also has ghosts and graveyards and creepy killers all named Jack. I had previously read chapter 4 in "M Is for Magic", and it was cool to see the rest of Bod's story. I liked the short story approach. Each chapter was a nice snippet of Bod's life. You don't need a huge interconnected narrative to tell a good tale.
Passing on this book to the next reader at the Calgary BookCrossing January meet-up.
Picked this up at the January meeting. We tied for our largest meeting ever with 17 BookCrossers in attendance. This one has been added to my book shelf.
I just can't seem to get into this one and have now forgotten what was happening so would have to start over. Instead I will pass it along.
Are you in the Calgary area and interested in meeting up with other Calgary BookCrossers? Please check out our facebook group, "BookCrossing Calgary" for details on how. Meeting are held on the second Saturday of every month starting at 11am. Location is unknown, please PM me for information. New Crossers are always welcome.
Taking to our December meeting where it can go home with a new reader.
Taking to our December meeting where it can go home with a new reader.
Picked up at get together
Really enjoyed this book. The concept was great, it had a nice flow and was interested to see what would happen with the characters.
Thanks for the interesting read!
Thanks for the interesting read!
Picked this up at the Cravings BookCrossers meeting today.
