But it’s exactly the kind of thing she’d have enjoyed reading. Actually, child me was a huge wimp so she might have avoided it. If I’d been part of its target audience when it came out, child me would have loved it. Coraline is a darker version of Lewis Carroll’s novel. I loved the story of Alice falling into another world and meeting all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures. I was obsessed with Alice in Wonderland when I was a child. The fact that’s it was also read by Neil Gaiman himself was just an added bonus. This week, I had an urge to revisit an old favourite. Then, if I’ve nothing else to do, I can just lie in bed and relax for a bit. Stick one on as I tidy or take photos for the upcoming week.

But, I can try and get one finished when I have a free weekend. It’s not the kind of thing you can do and still pay attention to a book. Most of my job involves writing and researching. I don’t think listening to them at work as I did with The Diary of a Bookseller. It was fine for a non-fiction book but I don’t think I can keep track of the narrative of a story. It also means that I’ll get through more books a week. This means I’ll hopefully be able to keep up with two reviews a week. 'Inventive, scary, thrilling, and finally affirmative.As you’ll know if you read my last Sunday Rundown, I’ve decided that I’m going to try and listen to an audiobook ever weekend. Before long, the miraculous turns sinister, and Coraline must use her wits and courage to save herself―and the other trapped souls she finds along the way.įilled with enchantments and terrors alike, this winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Awards is a dazzling feat of imagination from a modern literary master.

Intrigued, she ventures deep into a mysterious mirror realm, a world eerily similar yet darkly different from her own. While exploring her new home, a young girl named Coraline unlocks a door to reveal a hidden passage. 'One of the most truly frightening books ever written.'― Bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a critically acclaimed novel for readers of all ages in which a young girl discovers a passage to a world eerily similar yet darkly different from her own―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee

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