M is for Magic by Neal Gaiman

M is for Magic by Neal Gaiman, 260 pages, 5 hours, 29 minutes on audio. read by the author.

I started out the year (or was finishing up last year) re-reading a couple of favorites.

This is a wonderful collection of short stories and was great fun on the road back from Chicago. Unfortunately we only got through "The case of the four and twenty blackbirds," "Troll bridge," and "Don't ask Jack," before the baby got fussy, and we had to switch to music. The music didn't help, and I still believe that Neal Gaiman's voice will always sooth a crabby baby, but we never got to test that.
"Troll Bridge" is the saddest tale, and "Don't Ask Jack" the creepiest. "October in the Chair," is sweet and sad, and "Chivalry" the most lighthearted. My favorite, though, is "How to Talk to Girls at Parties." I remember the girls as all being stars, but I see now that while some of them are, some are something different. Great stories. Maybe we can read these aloud at a Storytime for Grownups sometime in the future (though Neal would do it better).
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