The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Yesterday I finished reading The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman... The first story I have ever read from Gaiman was a tale called Murder Mysteries (which I found amazingly good) for a Book Club with a couple of friends... One of them suggested I read this book (she has already written about this book in her own Blog here - in Portuguese) so I decided to give it a try...

The Graveyard Book tells the story about Bod, an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their timely ghostly teachings-like the ability to Fade.bCan a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there are things like ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other.

It is a very interesting and original story with a very well developped plot. If you've never read anything by Gaiman you should really give it a try... I already got several audiobooks from him now... Can't wait to hear them...
Goodreads: 4.1 stars

PS: Now I can start reading Pretty Little Liars!!!

Wicked, Killer and Burned

Yay! Now there is only one book from my order that haven't arrived yet, for 3 books just came in! They are:

Wicked and Killer

The fifth and sixth books from the Pretty Little Liars series (which I talked more about here)

Burned

The seventh book from the House of Night series.

The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampyres have always existed. In the first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire--that is, if she makes it through the Change. Not all of those who are chosen do. It’s tough to begin a new life, away from her parents and friends, and on top of that, Zoey finds she is no average fledgling.  She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx.  But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers.

Dead in the Family and Cyrano de Bergerac

Two new books today:

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

The 10th book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels (which originated the popular HBO TV-series True Blood). I have only read until novel #5... The show is on the end of the 3rd season, which corresponds, more or less, to the end of the novel #3 with some elements of #4, eventhough there are some info that are different, so I don't know if some I haven't read yet or it is only different... Either way, I really like the books, more than the show, so... Just trying to complete my collection =D
Goodreads: 3.62 stars

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

That's my 2nd assinement for this semester at French, already getting mine eventhough I am not done with the first one yet... But... Better to be safe than sorry...

Cover text: "Aimable jeune homme et auteur à demi-succès patronné par Sarah Bernhard, Rostand devient du jour au lendemain avec Cyrano de Bergerac un héros national, sur-le-champ décoré de la Légion d’honneur. Somptueux divertissement poético-militaire, pièce historique qui rappelait à la fois Les Trois Mousquetaires et le monde des précieux, drame en vers d’une ahurissante virtuosité où parut revivre le meilleur de Ruy Blas, Cyrano conquit sans peine un public lassé du théâtre d’idées, qu’enflamma le patriotisme culturel de l’auteur. « Ainsi, il y a un chef-d’œuvre de plus au monde », écrivait Jules Renard le soir de la générale. Il faut sans doute en rabattre un peu, mais un peu seulement : bien que né dans le sérail de la plus bourgeoise des bourgeoisies, Cyrano demeure la plus grande réussite de théâtre populaire à ce jour connue et le dernier acte, avec son couvent et ses feuilles mortes, est aussi émouvant qu’un final de Verdi."

English version: "Edmond Rostand's bittersweet melodrama tells the tale of France's master swordsman--Cyrano de Bergerac, a valiant soldier cursed with the face of a clown. Gallantry, love, poetry, and failure all combine in this timeless classic, further enhanced by Kyle Baker's captivating illustrations."
Goodreads: 4.01 stars