Reddit reviews The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains: A Tale of Travel and Darkness with Pictures of All Kinds

Well, Harper Lee is pretty lit'ry, and in keeping with the Dream King theme, the first Gaiman I would recommend to you specifically my friend, is a longish short story called "The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains".

https://www.amazon.ca/Truth-Cave-Black-Mountains-Darkness/dp/006228214X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+truth+is+a+cave+in+the+black+mountains&qid=1564424851&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Of course, you've probably come across Gaiman on the big screen and just didn't realize it. 'Coraline', 'Stardust', 'Mirror-Mask', and recently 'How To Talk to Girls At Parties' are movies based on his work (as are TV series 'American Gods', 'Neverwhere' and 'Good Omens'). Now although the Sandman graphic novels (along with the now 'retired' (Ha!), Alan Moore's Watchmen), are justly renown for shaping modern comics, they are rather longish whereas 'Truth' is much more pithy in that you'll either like it, or not, a lot quicker! :)

Your weekends sound brilliant! Many is the day (many, many), from way back when I was just in the single digits on the lake up in Muskoka I'd row my brother up half-way up the lake, just offshore the rock-face, and he'd fish and I'd read. Now in later years, when we were in our teens, we may well have been smoking other than tobacco (what is the statute of limitations on operating a boat stoned?), but whatever, I always loved reading on a boat gently rocking in the waves. I used to 'stock-up' a pile of about 8 - 12 books for those two weeks, 'cause if I ran out of reading material there wasn't any place nearby to get any. Ahh, good times, summer times...