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Heaven, the graveyard, love and ambition in Thatcher's England (The Graveyard Book, A Matter of Life & Death, My Beautiful Laundrette)
I'm still emerging from a haze of butter fat and imagining that I am unlikely to eat any poultry again for the rest of 2008. Too much was had by all this thanksgiving, but everyone seemed to have a good time of it as the festivities went on for eight hours. It's probably my fear for the state of my arteries that has me reading Neil Gaiman's new young person's novel, The Graveyard Book. As usual, G...
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Whilst doing some harmless research on the internets today, I accidentally stumbled across a sinister realization: Neil Diamond and Neil Gaiman are the same person. Think about it - -Gaiman and Diamond practically rhyme. -Neil Gaiman wrote Coraline, and Neil Diamond wrote Sweet Caroline. -Neil Diamond sings Forever in Blue Jeans, and Gaiman wears the very same (though
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Neil Jordan To Direct Neil Gaiman Book Novelist Neil Gaiman, fresh off his Newbery medal win for The Graveyard Book, announced that director Neil Jordan will adapt and direct the film version of that award-winning novel. Gaiman made the announcement during a Today Show appearance. As GalleyCat reported, Gaiman won the American Library Association's prestigious award this week for Graveyard, which was illustrated by Dave McKean. Jo...
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Bookslut Interview with Neil Gaiman from Jessa Crispin on Vimeo. 16 minutes Bookslut (Jessa Crispin) interviewed Neil Gaiman recently and this is it. In this interview, he mentions his blog. Neil Gaiman wrote Neverwhere (one of my favourites) and Stardust and American Gods and the Sandman graphic novel (aka comic books) series. His new book is called The Graveyard Book.
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Review | The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book Author - Neil Gaiman Hardcover Pages: 304 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Children’s ed edition Release Date: October 20, 2008 ISBN-10: 0747569010 ISBN-13: 978-0747569015 Over the holiday season I picked up, Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, a novel that I had been saving for years. Gaiman is a special case for me, I don’t read his novels lightly, instead sav...
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Joint Review: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Title: The Graveyard Book Author: Neil Gaiman Genre: Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel Why did we read this book: Really? Because, obviously, we love Neil Gaiman. (The question should be why did it take us so freaking long to read this book!) Summary: (from amazon.com) Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if h...
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Stephen Colbert blasted the ALA for selecting The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman as the Newberry Award winner. He invited Neil to be on the program to defend his children's book, which begins with a knife in the dark. It's not easy to fence with Stephen Colbert, but Neil does a fantastic job of holding his own. Colber's response when Neil mentions Tom Bombadil from The Lord of the Ri...
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman I just love Neil Gaiman (not to mention that he himself looks quite like a close friend I had in college).  Well, I love his books, too, and this one was no exception.  It’s my third Gaiman, and although I still think I liked Coraline a tiny bit better, I loved The Graveyard Book. Just like
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Neil Gaiman feature Amanda Craig discusses his new novel The Graveyard Book and finds that his wild imagination knows no boundaries...
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Crazy Hair "In my hair Gorillas leap, Tigers stalk, And ground sloths sleep. Prides of lions Make their lair Somewhere in my crazy hair." By Neil Gaiman Find Out More Similar News: Goodreads Q&A with Neil Gaiman Earlier today I saw that Goodreads just had a Q&A with Neil Gaiman. For an hour, Gaiman stopped by and answered questions fans put up on Goodreads. It was a lot of fun to read through and I w...
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Free Readin’ Watchin’ | The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman How on the heels of the news that Neil Gaiman’s latest novel, The Graveyard Book, won the Newberry Medal, I discovered that the entirety of The Graveyard Book is available on the Interwebs for free. The best part, it’s a ten-part video series of Gaiman himself reading the novel. Gaiman’s well known for doing many of
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