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"Coraline's often wondered what's behind the locked door in the drawing room. It reveals only a brick wall when she finally opens it, but when she tries again later, a passageway mysteriously appears. Coraline is surprised to find a flat decorated exactly like her own, but strangely different. And when she finds her "other" parents in this alternate world, they are much more interesting despite their creepy black button eyes. When they make it clear, however, that they want to make her theirs forever, Coraline begins a nightmarish game to rescue her real parents and three children imprisoned in a mirror. With only a bored-through stone and an aloof cat to help, Coraline confronts this harrowing task of escaping these monstrous creatures.

Gaiman has delivered a wonderfully chilling novel, subtle yet intense on many levels. The line between pleasant and horrible is often blurred until what's what becomes suddenly clear, and like Coraline, we resist leaving this strange world until we're hooked. Unnerving drawings also cast a dark shadow over the book's eerie atmosphere, which is only heightened by simple, hair-raising text. Coraline is otherworldly storytelling at its best."



~~~~~~To the person who found this book:~~~~~~

Welcome to BookCrossing.com, where we are trying to make the whole world a library!

If you have not already done so, please make a journal entry so we know this book has found a new home. Drop a few lines on where and how you found this book and what you thought of it. You don't need to join BookCrossing and you can remain completely anonymous. However, I encourage you to join so that you can follow this book's future travels. It's fun and free, and your personal information will never be shared or sold.

This book is now yours, and you can keep it if you choose, although I would love you to read and then share it. You can pass it on someone you know or release it once again in the wild, leaving it on a park bench, a phone booth, a hostel lobby...wherever you think it's suitable for the book to continue it's journey. If you pass it along, please make a release note to let others know where you left it.

I hope you enjoy the book!

I admit I don't read Science Finction and/or Fantasy genre very often. When I do though, Neil Gaiman is the first author I turn to for some really imaginary, pleasant, usually unputdownable books. I find his novels attractive, spooky, fantastic -in all meanings of the word-, even chilling at times, but mostly on a fairy-tale-ish sort of way, rather a splatter-ish, violent-ish sort of way... if you know what I mean...

Coraline is a children's - or rather a pre-teens' - book and this shows as it's shorter and less extended comparing to other novels of this author. Still the characters are well-painted and the plot quite fulfilling and interesting, while the parallel world built by the author is...well...magical. One can sit enchanted and read Coraline in an enjoyable afternoon.


This is a second copy I bought for Book Crossing purposes, as I tend to keep Neil Gaiman's books in my permanent collection.

Coraline is now traveling the world in order to see new places and make many new friends.

The book is now on its way to Arizona, USA! And then... who knows?

Good Luck my book and don't forget to write home from time to time!

PS: BOOKWORMINUSALL, I read on your profile that you like checking out children's books. Neil Gaiman is not your usual children's book author, but I still hope you'll enjoy this...

This book arrived in a RABCK parcel today...THANK YOU SOOO VERY MUCH, Delphi_Reader!!! : D...and is a new to me Author that I look forward to finding out more about.

From Amazon, where this book is listed as "Science Fiction & Fantasy > Spine-Chilling Horror" under Product Details, but "Growing Up & Facts of Life" when you first pull it up, which is a bit misleading, especially with this syopsis...

This edition of New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman’s modern classic, Coraline—also an Academy Award-nominated film—is enriched with a foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and more.

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.

But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

While I very much appreciate the opportunity to explore this new to me author (THANK YOU, Delphi_Reader!!!), with my struggle with PTSD (among so many other things), I found I was not able to read this book...but I know it will be just PERFECT for someone else, so I'm adding it into innae's US Bookbox - Colors for the embedded CORAL color word in the title https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/542280,
and also releasing it for booklady331's One Word Title Release Challenge 2017. ; ) https://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/23/543513

TO THE FINDER OF THIS BOOK:

HELLO...WELCOME to BOOKCROSSING...and CONGRATULATIONS!


You have not only found yourself a good book, but a whole community of booklovers dedicated to sharing books with each other and the world at large. I hope you'll stick around a bit and get to know BOOKCROSSING http://www.bookcrossing.com/about. Maybe you'll even decide to make a journal entry on this book, possibly listing me...BOOKWORMINUSALL...as the one who referred you. We want to make the whole world a library! You may choose to remain anonymous or to join (it's free!). Feel free to read and keep this book, or to pass it on to a friend, or even set it free "in the wild" for someone else to find as you did. If you do choose to join and journal, then you can watch the book as it travels - you'll be alerted by email each time someone makes another journal entry. It's all confidential (you're known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your email address), it's fun, it's free, and it's spam-free...all thanks to our dedicated totally AWESOME BOOKCROSSING MANAGEMENT http://www.bookcrossing.com/management, and SUPPORT TEAMS!!!

HAPPY READING!

Returned home in my Colors Bookbox

Congratulations!! You have found a rare and unique gift, a travelling book!!


While it is possible I have read and given my thoughts on this book, it is more likely it is a book I found/purchased specifically to send out into the world! In either case, please read what has been said before, where has this book been, who enjoyed it, who didn't -- and perhaps, if you care to, you can add your two cents!


You do not have to join bookcrossing to pick up, enjoy, and journal a book -- however, if you do decide to join us, please consider using me (innae) as your recommending friend, and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to drop me a personal message (for more info, check out the FAQ).


And again, thank you for saving this book from a life of boredom!

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