<![CDATA[M Is for Magic]]>

false <![CDATA[M Is for Magic]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170348291m/47699.jpg 47699 15 Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you. Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers—but always embrace the unexpected: <ul> <li>A teenage boy who has trouble talking to girls finds himself at a rather unusual party.</li> <li>A sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who owned it.</li> <li>A boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery and confronts the much more troubling world of the living.</li> <li>A stray cat fights a nightly battle to protect his adopted family from a terrible evil.</li> </ul> These eleven stories illuminate the real and the fantastic, and will be welcomed with great joy by Neil Gaiman's many fans as well as by readers coming to his work for the first time. 2567355 book 1 7 2007 M Is for Magic total:1118|5:242|4:490|3:320|2:54|1:12| 1118 4250 1899 200 4 3 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 25 21:36:54 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 05 20:55:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 true false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jan 28 00:03:43 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 20 21:11:11 -0700 2009
My favorite short story in this collection was Chivalry, followed by How to Sell the Ponti Bridge. My least favorite was Su...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 30 13:15:03 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 13:16:45 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 21:15:35 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 21:29:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 09 06:22:04 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 06:22:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 18 13:23:32 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 09:24:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 13:51:29 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 14:01:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 11:57:24 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 12:00:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 12 19:26:08 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 05:27:28 -0700 2009
I agree with Gaiman that in as much as people love reading novels, it is another kind of ride that a short story offers us. A novel provides one with a long journ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 27 06:14:13 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 06:14:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 17 23:21:06 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 23:21:17 -0800 2009
Then one day I have to travel, so I take this book by Neil Gaiman, the o...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jul 02 13:04:30 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 13:06:16 -0700 2008
Our favorite was about a little old lady who just happens to come across the Holy Grail in a bring-and-buy shop. Delightful!

However, being marketed as a book for young readers, i thought some of the stories contained some overly adult...]]> 2 2 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 13:27:50 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:10:16 -0700 2009 Clive Barker tells us "Gaiman is a star," but he sure is not shining in this book. Granted, some of the stories are entertaining. I especially liked Sunbird, the tale about the Epicurean club that had sampled every taste imaginable and have nothing left to try. I also thoroughly enjoyed...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 18:22:39 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 18:26:23 -0700 2009
I kept waiting for the good one. I think I read 80% of this bef...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 13:58:17 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 20:53:16 -0800 2009 Neil Gaiman stories.

It's a little unusual for a book aimed at...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 29 18:00:22 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 18:06:49 -0800 2008 2 or 3 Instructions is incredible; perfect for a girl who spent her childhood reading and dreaming of fairy tales. I just love Neil Gaiman. He has written some other wonderful stories for children, including Coraline. Talk ab...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 14:08:06 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 05:13:01 -0700 2009
Only one or two of the stories in this compilation I knew already, from Smoke and Mirrors. And hearing them in audio book format heightened my enjoyment of them immensely.

The first story, what kicks off the compilation, I don't reca...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 13:16:54 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 16:01:20 -0700 2009 1 The Graveyard Book...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 16:15:37 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 13:16:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 07:35:47 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 02 21:26:58 -0800 2009 Neil Gaiman, Smoke Mirrors and Fragile Things, and even a fragment from The Graveyard Book. There are only two stories left in this book that I haven't read, so I am glad to finally have the book ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=47699