Interesting Books
The
Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman, reviews at Fantasy
Literature & The
Book Smugglers
Sussex,
England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral.
Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end
of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl,
Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie
in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an
ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes
flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to
have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.
Forty
years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end
of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and
resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and
thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting,
wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.
A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the
Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows
the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out.
It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's
wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.
I have
listed these titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS
Books Page for links to more reviews:
The
City by Stella Gemmell, review at Bookworm
Blues
The
Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu, review at Sarah
Says Read
Jan DeLima
As
well as being a writer, Jan is also an enthusiastic gardener, as you can see
from her latest blog
post.
Anticipated Books
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