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A Calendar of Tales

de Neil Gaiman

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Please go to Soundcloud and listen to Neil Gaiman read these marvelous tales--one for each month of the year.

They are all stupendous, but I have a particular fondness for

May - A hilarious tale of monthly curiosities befalling an unidentified woman. “I do not have an Uncle Theobold, but I wore a pink carnation in my buttonhole and ate salads for a month anyway.”

July - An igloo of books, a broken heart, an escape.

October - OMG, the ultimate love story.

and December - A story of hope. What could be more appropriate?

These morsels will take only a few minutes of your day. I stretched them out so that I could savor them, but then I gobbled them up like a second helping when I had done.

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  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
January Tale: Out of context from the inspiring tweet, this story wasn't one I fully grasped; it just seemed like the beginning of a story, caught up in the end of a story not fully told. But I guess that's the entire point of the January tale, since that's what the beginning of the New Year is all about. January is the tipping point as the past is remembered and carried forward into the beginning of the future. Gaiman toys with the metaphysics of time as his warriors (new and old) battle against the creatures who hide behind the second of time, which brings to mind the idea of the danger that occurs during the days between Christmas and New Years.

February Tale: This story is incredibly brief, but it opens up such a world of magic and wonder that I can't help but love it. Who are these women who come from where the sea and sky are one? Why did one come to the Earth in the first place? And why did the other take her pendant from her? And what happens next? It gives just enough detail to prompt the reader to imagine a backstory for the grandmother and leaves it open ended to conjecture.

March Tale: March is a month of the world reawakening and new journeys being planned, so it is quite fitting that the prompt and story for this month are about a female pirate from the 1700s. During this time period women were very much confined to a wifely role, so the story of Anne Bonny who escapes to a life of piracy and adventure is an aberration. Gaiman takes the perspective of the woman after she has returned home with her baby by Red Rackham (taking liberty with historical record, which generally has her continue marauding), but which shows the dichotomy between her two lives. On the surface, she appears to be the perfect lady (not speaking of uncouth things like pirates and cannon), but her true nature is revealed when she puts her face into the rain to mimic the feeling of sea spray (a most unladylike behavior).

April Tale: Haha, oh those ducks! I love that my birthday month story is about ducks (one of my favourite animals) who happen to be total smart-asses! Don't ever cheat a duck, or they will get you back!

May Tale: the May Tale is a bit weird; not sure I get the point, but it would sure be hilarious if I got a bunch of random things in the mail! Would definitely make life a bit more interesting than just getting bills...

June Tale: While this story is clearly meant to be more entertaining than anything else, Gaiman is also making a very clear statement about relationships. No one except the people in the relationship can ever truly understand their relationship, and in this case we're getting a pretty clear view of how opposites attract through the eyes of the couples' children. The kids may think their parents are nuts, but they seem to be able to roll their eyes lovingly and enjoy their library-book-laden stay-cation all the same.

July Tale: I'm not very fond of this story. It starts out so promisingly with a man who builds an igloo out of books and starts to rediscover his life, but then his wife returns to him and the igloo gets rained on. Sure, it's great that his wife is back, but did the books have to be destroyed???

August Tale: The August Tale is one with a wary beginning - two men being idiots about getting out of a potential forest fire hazard zone - but I quite liked how it ends with thousands of phoenixes being born out of the flames. Forest fires do serve their purpose in nature, even though they can cause huge damage to humanity, and I quite like Gaiman's mythological take.

September Tale: For a ring that sounds like it does more good than evil, the protagonist's reaction to the ring returning after being lost seems to imply that they think negative forces are at work. Or maybe they just don't like that the ring seems to bend the odds of probability in its own favour - suggesting an intelligence not befitting of an inanimate object. Maybe they they just don't like that their dead mother keeps having an influence on their life through the return of the ring...

October Tale: There have been a multitude of stories about people meeting genies who trick them, waste their wishes, or succumb to greed, but few which just have the genie BE. Gaiman's tale is simple, with little in the way of action, plot, or character development, but it is this simplicity that gives it the same charm as moral fables of old.

November Tale: What a sad little story, with such a happy little ending. If only problems could truely be solved by setting them on fire in a snake-engraved brazier.

December Tale: Like the story of the little matchbox girl, Gaiman's Decemeber Tale is all about the concept of hope - though thankfully without the death at the end. ( )
  JaimieRiella | Feb 25, 2021 |
I read this collection previously, in one of Gaiman's short story anthologies, but today I read the illustrated version. I enjoyed the stories even upon a second reading, and the illustrations are excellent. ( )
  widdersyns | Jul 19, 2020 |
Lovely little stories, all vastly different, but equally pleasing.

I love the premise - getting inspiration from his Twitter followers. ( )
  obtusata | Jan 9, 2020 |
Only one of the stories really resonated with me. October--the story about the djiin.

The others were either forgettable or had neat elements or ideas but didn't have the cohesive impact that I normally attribute to Neil's short stories. Perhaps flash fiction isn't his forte. Perhaps he should have taken more time to write them. Perhaps writing from prompts was never a good idea to begin with.

Whatever the case these stories live up to my expectations of one my favorite authors only in so much as they have eminently publishable and beautiful prose, as everything Neil writes does. He is nothing if not a practiced master of his craft, but even master painters create paintings that are devoid of passion and meaning from time to time. Usually they don't put them on the internet for everyone to see, but hey, who am I to judge? He probably had fun writing them, and that makes me happy, so I'll give it a pass. ( )
  ForeverMasterless | Apr 23, 2017 |
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