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Finished The Graveyard Book for Dewey's Books Reading Challenge.  You can read Dewey's review here.

I hope when they make it into a movie, they give it to Tim Burton, because this reminded me of old-school Tim Burton, really awesome Tim Burton--the Tim Burton of Beetlejuice, not Planet of the Apes and that monstrosity he called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  (Sorry if you liked it--I am fiercely loyal to the original, the one where Willy Wonka didn't seem insane and creepy--at least, not the ENTIRE TIME.)

Anyway. 

The Graveyard Book is about Nobody "Bod" Owens, a young boy who grows up in a graveyard (and is raised by said graveyard's inhabitants) after an assassin kills his parents and older sister.  He doesn't entirely fit in (seeing as how he isn't dead) but he has friends and family.  If he leaves the graveyard, he risks the assassin finding him and killing him.

Really, really fun book. 

 

The Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman

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SweetMisery
[this is good]
very very strange, but I think I would like it. lol
Kelly
It was strange, but it was very fun. And good.
gunderson bee
The author just won a Newberry Award for this book (it was on NPR this morning). It's funny that you mention Tim Burton, because he's doing the movie for his other book "Coraline" which is coming out in theatres now or soon.

:)
Kelly
Awesome. I hope Coraline does well (I hear the book's fantastic, although I haven't read it) because I was reading The Graveyard Book and thinking, "I would LOVE to see what Tim Burton does with this."
handtalker
Kelly, you are the cause if entirely too many books in my Amazon queue! ;0)
Kelly

Really? :)

Nicest compliment ever! :)

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