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M Is for Magic is compilation of short stories written by Neil Gaiman, published on 2007-06-06. Despite the book's theme implying it's for children, most of the subject matter is more appropriate for teens.
Contents
Personal
| Own? | No. |
|---|---|
| Read? | No. |
Stories
| Title | Notes |
|---|---|
| "The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds" | A hard boiled crime story set in the world of fairy tales. The juxtaposition of the two genres made me laugh out loud multiple times. |
| "Troll Bridge" | A tale about a little boy who meets a hungry bridge troll that will spare his life if he promises to return when he's older. |
| "Don't Ask Jack" | A cursed jack-in-the-box drives a family mad. Mildly creepy, but too short to be interesting. |
| "How to Sell the Ponti Bridge" | A con artist tells the story of how he scammed a bunch of royals into buying a bridge. |
| "October in the Chair" | See my description in Fragile Things. |
| "Chivalry" | An old woman finds the Holy Grail at a secondhand shop and buys it to place on her mantle. Then Lancelot of Arthurian times comes seeking it. |
| "The Price" | A story about the stray cats that show up at the author's house, and how one in particular keeps his family safe. |
| "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" | See my description in Fragile Things. |
| "Sunbird" | See my description in Fragile Things. |
| "The Witch's Headstone" | |
| "Instructions" | See my description in Fragile Things. |
Review
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Overall: |
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— This section contains spoilers! —
Good
Bad
- Four of the stories in the book were just published less than a year earlier in Fragile Things, and several others were published in compilations from years earlier. In fact, there are only two stories not previous published in a compilation. This would be like buying a band's latest "Greatest Hits" album and discovering that nearly all of songs were published on their previous Greatest Hits albums.
Ugly
- Nothing.
Media
Representation
| Strong female character? | A few stories have women as secondary characters, but none are important or strong. | |
|---|---|---|
| Bechdel test? | There are some women who to each other briefly "October in the Chair." | |
| Strong person of color character? | Fail | There are black teens briefly mentioned in "How to Talk to Girls at Parties." |
| Queer character? |
Quotes
Links
Categories:
- Books
- Books Published in 2007
- Adult Books
- Books written by Neil Gaiman
- Fiction
- Anthology
- Book Genre - Fantasy
- Media Theme - Adventure
- Media Theme - Fantasy
- Media Theme - Horror
- Media Theme - Urban Fantasy
- Books I Don't Own
- Books I Haven't Read
- Pages with broken file links
- Books Rated -
- Books without a strong person of color character
