Incidentally, between knitting last night, and before I came in to the office this morning, I read Neil Gaiman's Coraline. It's very suspenseful - I got to a point this morning where I kept saying "but I told myself I'd go into the office before 7:30 to get lots of work done!" but I had to keep reading anyway.

it's a very complex story, symbolically speaking. Buttons, and losing names, and things being reversed from what they should be...I think I'll need to read it a couple more times, slowly, to try to figure out all the imagery and symbolism.

it's an excellent book. I enjoyed it more than the Harry Potter books I've read (I've not read all of them). In a way, it's kind of reminiscent of the Alice stories, but it's scarier.

and no, I'm not going to spoil it by telling you whether it has a happy ending or not. Suffice it to say I liked the book.