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STILL MORE SCARY STORIES FOR STORMY NIGHTS – JIM CHARBONNEAU
I read this book back in the sixth grade, but remembered very little about it other than one story where a kid gets eaten by a sapient cloud monster, so I decided to revisit it.
Needless to say, the book didn’t age well. There were only two types of stories in this book: really stupid R. L. Stine-level stories and alright but unoriginal and none-too-interesting stories. The interior artwork, too, was bland; they should’ve commissioned the guy who did the cover art to do the interiors instead of the person they ended up going with.
5/10
CORALINE – NEIL GAIMAN
I watched the film adaptation a number of months ago, so I decided to read the novella itself. This is certainly one of those uncommon cases where the movie is better than the book it’s based on.
There’s nothing bad about the book, but there’s not a whole lot of meat to it, either. I may as well have read the transcript to a video game. Coraline herself is a flat character who has no serious inner doubts or struggles and doesn’t evolve over the course of the story; from start to finish she just goes through the motions, remaining the same character at the end of the book that she was at the beginning.
5/10
A WRINKLE IN TIME – MADELEINE L’ENGLE
PROS: The main characters are well-rounded and sympathetic; the story is solid; the book altogether is a quick and easy read.
CONS: The dialogue is stilted; the ending was too abrupt.
7/10