It seems silly to write a review of a calendar (date book), but I like this one because it can be used on any year -- that is, the dates are not linked to the day of the week. I suppose it is not really a calendar, but a way of keeping track of special days -- like birthdays and anniversaries. I got it at a used book store, and thought it hadn't been used and so could be given as a gift, but later I found there were two entries. One on September 15 said "Daniel's birthday" and the other on May 1st says "My birthday". A Mayday birthday seems very special, and I began to wonder who Daniel was to the prior owner of the book... Anyway, the pages have a full-page whimsical Mary Engelbreit illustration on the left-hand side, and six days (with lovely borders) on the right-side. Quite lovely. I think I will use it to note down people's birthdates as I seem, more and more, to be forgetting them. ( )