Hold Your Spin Calgary, AB, Canada

An entertaining and enjoyable enough mystery about two sixth-graders - Calder and Petra - who find themselves, through a number of coincidences, the only two people able to rescue a stolen painting by Vermeer. For the most part the book rolls along pretty quickly, but it's a bit draggy in some areas ... (continue)

Was annoyed to discover that there were only two stories in this book that I hadn't already read. Not sure if it was worth buying all of these a second time, even if I did enjoy some of them.

Very enjoyable story. I can see why, as discussed in the afterword, Gaiman and Reaves thought this would make a good tv series: this book reads a bit like a season finale (except, of course, for the bit where we're introduced to this particular Joey Harker, but the scale of the story feels like a se ... (continue)

This was interesting and sometimes funny, but mostly I feel like I missed the point.

"Quite good" with a caveat - it's really not terribly well written. Fascinating, if you're interested in the way people's brains work (or don't), which I am, but there are times when his fascinations (for instance, his invented version of solitaire) can bog down the narrative.