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By Nancy Dillingham
The author tells a charming
story about the book. When
The Big Iv y Book Club meets his son Michael (now 25) was
at 10 am on Saturday (March very young, the family lived
28) at Big Ivy Community in Britain in a house without
Center, 540 Dillingham Road, a backyard, and Gaiman took
to discuss Neil Gaiman’s 2009 his son to a graveyard across Same friendly faces & quick
Newbery Medal winner The the street to ride his tricycle.
service that you’re used to,
Graveyard Book, a story about “I remember how incredibly
a boy (“Bod”) who is raised at home he looked there. I
just at a new location.
by ghosts after his family is thought you could write some-
killed. It was cited for its “deli- thing a lot like The Jungle Book
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cious mix of murder, fantasy,
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and set it in a graveyard.” He
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humor, and human longing,” wrote a page or two at the
and its “magical, haunting time, but decided he “wasn’t Mon-Fri.-8-5:30 – Sat 8-12 • Closed Sunday
prose.” yet up to the task as a writer.”
But Gaiman, renowned au- After repeated tries over the
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thor of sci-fi, fantasy, graphic years, he sat down and wrote
novels, and comics says his it three years ago.
book is “not a children’s book. When asked about writing,
It’s a book I think children will he says: “The truth is. . .that
enjoy, but there’s also stuff there are no rules and you
that’s there for adults too. It do what produces pages. You
is a book about life and death keep moving forward.” Of The
and making families. There’s Graveyard Book, he says, “Each
a lot of scary stuff in there and chapter is a self-contained
a few people (all adults) who story.” He wrote Chapter Four
have read it have written to first, before he completed the
tell me they cried in the last entire book.
Nancy Dillingham.
Weaverville
Flaxman reads from
forthcoming book
M o r e t h a n 50
guests joined
Weaverville resident
and broadcaster
Fred Flaxman as
he held his first
public reading
of his upcoming
book Sixty Slices of
Life... on Wry: The
Private Life of a
Public Broadcaster
on March 15 at the
meeting room at the
Botanical Gardens
of Asheville.
Flaxman is the host
of the syndicated
classical music
series “Compact
Discoveries.” The
show airs at 1 pm
every Sunday on
103.5 WPVM-FM.
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