Book of Days is an excellent gift book. It resembles a calendar with a blank space for each day of the year, but no year is specified. One can use it to keep track of birthdays, anniversaries, and other memorable occasions. It can also be used as a diary that crosses the years. An entry might follow one made the day before or one made a dozen years earlier. The book includes humorous and penetrating quotations, as well as short poems by the author, composed in the northern woods of Maine.