female awesome meme: females in literature [2/10] ↝ elisabeth scrivener
you belonged in the library, as much as any book
“She’s realized the real problem with stories – if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
- Title: The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
- Author: Neil Gaiman
- Genre: Graphic Novel, Fantasy
- Published: January 1, 1988
- My Thoughts: Incredibly dark and also incredibly hard to put down
Neil Gaiman’s SANDMAN series is an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death. In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power and encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman. This book also includes the story “The Sound of Her Wings,” which introduces Death.
Includes issues 1-8 of the original series.
The Sandman was my first introduction a few years back into the graphic novel world. As you’ve seen from my extensive graphic novel reading, it went well.
I’m rereading the first five because I finally was able to get my hands on the rest of the collection and wanted to read them back-to-back. As a reread, this story is just as fantastical and dark as I remembered. Neil Gaiman might be a serial killer living out his fantasies in story form (just one theory), but the concept and execution are brilliantly done.
I would recommend this to anyone who likes Neil Gaiman’s other works, enjoy dark plotlines, and love a story with a combination of other DC characters (the novelty hits hard for me with this series).
Coffee date ☕️
“For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered. Discarded. Twisted.”
- S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
~ Brown and Gold ~
The Last Bookstore // Los Angeles, CA
Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert
