Last weekend I listened to The Graveyard Book, written and read by Neil Gaiman.
It's one of the few books I've read where I wholly enjoyed having it read to me, but also kept thinking "In the near future I want to buy this book and read it on my own." Gaiman's voices for the different characters are wonderful.
I know it was mentioned here waay back, but I couldn't find it with search. If you haven't got around to reading it yet, it's well worth it (and it's out in paperback now.)
The basic storyline is that a crawling infant lost his family and wandered into a graveyard, where he was raised by ghosts and other unnatural creatures. Hard for me to describe in any inviting way but the the book won a Newbery and that's always a good sign.
