4.25* 
 I still don't know what I think about this book and will have to ruminate for a while.... 
 After thinking about this book for several days, I'm still not quite sure what I think about them. Neil Gaiman has such unique ideas. I would love to live in his head for a day! I'm not even quite sure how to classify this book - magical realism? Fantasy? 
 This book follows an unnamed character who goes back to the town he grew up in for a funeral. He leaves the funeral and wants to get away from people for a while so he drives around and ends up returning to the road he grew up on. He ends up "getting lost", so to speak, in something that happened to him in his childhood which leaves the reader wondering at the very ending of the book whether things were real or not. 
 I liked the magical qualities of this book and there were some parts that really got me thinking, but I was left confused (which isn't always a bad thing). I appreciated the symbolism throughout the book and think this would be a very interesting one for honors students to read and discuss. 
 The characters were very interesting (all of the main characters were females minus our narrator so I was feeling a bit of girl power going on) and I loved the setting of this book. Idyllic English country-side will always interest me! 
 Overall, I liked most aspects of this book, but was left a little too confused about things that I suspect were more symbolic in nature.