Month: August 2013

Book Review: Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Book Review: Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Ocean at the End of the Lanein Hardcover edition on June 18, 2013 and has 181 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo A little bit metaphysical, a little bit fantasy, and a whole lot real. In 2014, The Ocean at the End of the Lane won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. In 2013, it won the Specsavers National Book Award for Book of the Year and the Paris Review Best of the Best; it was also the Goodreads Choice for Best Fantasy and nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel. My Take WOW! This is fabulous!! It’s a buy in my book. I fell in love with it when the protagonist confessed his love for books: “books were safer than other people…” It may be a sad occasion, but he is okay with it, as he retreats to his room with that boxed collection of Narnia books. I will confess for myself…it’s an odd story with contentment and sad events. It’s through the perspective of a bright boy with compassion, a kid who lacks experience or […]

Posted August 9, 2013 by Kathy Davie in / 1 Comment