September 26, 2024 reread:
A reread for one of my book clubs. Despite being a novella, it’s not really a kids’ book, and there’s more horror in it than I remembered. (Which shouldn’t be surprising, given that it was written by Neil Gaiman.) That said, still a good read and I’m glad I got a chance to reread it. One of the things I hadn’t caught in my initial read — and perhaps only something I’m seeing now, given the journey I’ve been on for the past year — is that the protagonist may have been coded autistic. I picked out quite a few passages that pinged my “neurodivergent” spidey-sense. It’s not as strong a coding as others I’ve read, but I think I could make a case for it. Always funny what we rediscover in books that we’ve put down for a while and come back to with new life experiences.