Neil Gaiman – Belle Can Read

Title: Anansi Boys

Author: Neil Gaiman

Published: September 26, 2006

Length: 10 hours and 5 minutes

Genre: Fantasy, Fiction

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Neil Gaiman is two for two now.

Once upon a time, a *lonely middle schooler randomly plucked The Graveyard Book off the shelves of her school library. It was by an author named Neil Gaiman, the same man who wrote the scariest movie she had seen in her pubescent life, Coraline. The girl was temporarily transported to a cemetery in England where she fell in love with the ghosts, witches, and other mystical creatures who walked the grounds. The book became one of her most beloved memories.

For years, she told herself that she would visit further stories by the man who penned her favorite quote, “Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” Finally, after a few years shy of a decade, she clicked play on an audiobook by the author in discussion and was once again immersed into a fantastical story that begun this time in… Florida.

Lonely middle schooler was totally* not me. I had level 10 people skills by the age of eleven that did not include hiding in the library during lunch 😬.

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**Genres, their definitions, and how their interpretations vary across bookworms have been discussed exhaustively in the bookish community.**

I admit, it was never a conversation I joined in much because I did not have many thoughts about the subject. To me, a genre was self-explanatory—a science fiction book was a make-believe story about something ~ sciencey ~ and a fantasy book had magic or dragons or knights so it was… fantastical.

It wasn’t until I recently read this passage from a collection of Neil Gaiman’s nonfiction works that I genuinely reflected upon my basic definition of a genre:

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Audiobook Review: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman // another (hilarious) favorite by Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman is two for two now.

Lonely middle schooler was totally* not me. I had level 10 people skills by the age of eleven that did not include hiding in the library during lunch 😬.

What Is A Genre? // why you may feel cheated by a book

**Genres, their definitions, and how their interpretations vary across bookworms have been discussed exhaustively in the bookish community.**

Neil Gaiman is two for two now.

*Lonely middle schooler was totally not me. I had level 10 people skills by the age of eleven that did not include hiding in the library during lunch 😬.

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Genres, their definitions, and how their interpretations vary across bookworms have been discussed exhaustively in the bookish community.

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Lonely middle schooler was totally* not me. I had level 10 people skills by the age of eleven that did not include hiding in the library during lunch 😬.

**Genres, their definitions, and how their interpretations vary across bookworms have been discussed exhaustively in the bookish community.**