1. Friday, September 21, 2007
Quickie Book Review: Coraline
Coraline, by Neil Gaiman. 2002.
Coraline, dissatisfied with her family's new house & old habits, goes exploring and
finds a door leading to an alternate version of her own life. But this new world is a
little fishy: her "other mother" has black buttons for eyes and seems to have an
insatiable appetite for insects, as well as for Coraline's love. Before long, Coraline
finds herself in a fast-moving existential struggle to save the happiness of her real
family, and her own button-free reality, from a creature who mistakes a prison-like
possession for affection…
Engaging, allegorical, and memorably creepy!
-Lydia Paar