August 11, 2014

The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman - August 25, 2014

We'll meet at Julie's on August 25, 2014, to discuss The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman.

Supplemental materials:

  • NYT review
  • NPR review
  • Guardian review
  • Neil Gaiman's website
  • Publisher's site (with link to a  reading guide)
  • Paper Plate's online book club discussion (questions are posed in the post, then people discuss via the comments)
  • LATimes review
  • Salon article
  • Meaning of the name "Ursula" (Wikipedia):  Ursula is a diminutive of the Latin ursa (she-bear)
  • A post on Neil Gaiman's Tumblr where he quotes a blogger who talks about female power in this novel