You can download a completely free audiobook version of Neil Gaiman’s short story “A Study in Emerald” from Audible.com. This is an amazing story, a blend of Holmesian mystery and Cthulhu Mythos. Neil read it aloud when I saw him in Washington D.C. a couple of years ago. Check it out!
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I’m currently reading Anya Bast’s The Chosen Sin, and I’ll hopefully finish it within the next couple of days, so keep your eyes peeled for a review. If you’re a book blogger, check out this post at Grasping The Wind. Diana Pharaoh Francis, a great spec fic author, is compiling a database of book bloggers that will be provided to publishing companies looking for reviewers. Check out the requirements on that post and submit your blog if it fits! Tia at Fantasy Debut is proposing a convention for book review bloggers and would like your input. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote new year’s resolutions for Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens. They’re fantastic. And if you haven’t read Good Omens yet, for shame! ;) And finally, a bit of blog news. Inspired by The Book Smugglers’ recent move, I’ve purchased a domain specifically for Ye Olde Blogge, here. I’ll probably transfer everything within the next couple of days, after the domain’s had time to propagate. I’ll make posts before and after the move and update you all on the URL and feed info! :D
Buy It Now: On Amazon.com Description: Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s family. . . . Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic Coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages. (from amazon.com) The Fangirl’s Review: A+ This is going to be a short review, unfortunately, as I’ve got to help the boyfriend and his family make mochi for the new year (which ought to be interesting, but that’s another post entirely). If I had to pick two words to describe this book, I’d say deliciously creepy. The first chapter completely creeped me out–ten-year-old me would have been scared to death and loved every second of it. I absolutely love the way Gaiman builds a world out of the old, rambling graveyard, and how Bod’s personality develops out of being raised by ghosts in that environment. Things which scare other, “normal” children are commonplace to Bod, and I love how absolutely ordinary Gaiman’s narrative makes those things. Ghoul-gates? Eh, you just have to know to avoid them. Fading into the shadows? Just takes practice, and even the living can do it. This is probably one of the best books I read in 2008 (speaking of which, I’d better write up a post about the books I read last year!), and I’d love to do something with this in one of my classes. I’m taking a course on adolescent literature in the spring semester, so maybe I can play with this one. It’s beautifully macabre, and I’d recommend it to anyone with an appreciation for the creepy. Run for your lives! My family’s first holiday party was yesterday. The second is today, and the third will be on Wednesday. And then on Thursday, the boyfriend and I are flying to Las Vegas to visit his brother. Not much of a winter break, is it? But it’s going to be cool; I’ve never been to Vegas or to San Diego, where we’ll probably drive to visit the boyfriend’s parents. DumbLittleMan has links to ten websites you should visit before you travel, and I’m going to take full advantage of Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush, a website with a very handy travel list. I love lists. I’m already trying to figure out which bag I’m going to take to carry books. I want to finish reading Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book before we leave, as it’s a hardcover and I don’t want to carry a ton of heavy books. I will, though, carry a ton of light books, heh. |
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Neil Gaiman once again delivers in this delightfully spooky tale of a boy raised in a cemetery.
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Free Gaiman!
No, not “Free Gaiman” as in he’s imprisoned somewhere. I mean free Neil Gaiman book! For a limited time, you can read Neil’s fantastic book Neverwhere for free! You can find the book online at Harper Collins’s website. This is my favorite Neil Gaiman book, so if you haven’t read it yet, definitely take advantage of this!