When You Are Engulfed in Flames
By David Sedaris
Edition: large print
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 2008
ISBN 0316024597, 9780316024594
512 pages
This is the first time I have ever liked a spider story. I almost stopped wanting to feed spiders to my cat. That feeling lasted less than twenty minutes.
I liked Essay #8 That's Amore, a tale of David's rude neighbor named Helen. I want a neighbor like this and when I get old. Actually, I almost want to be this neighbor. That sounds bad, but I just like the idea of watching out my window, yelling at people and being cranky at seventy.
This whole book walks that line that lives between awkward cringing and awkward shoegazing. What the fuck do you do when the person next to you on the plane has been moved to your row because he can't stop crying? Do you address it, allowing yourself to be sucked in to the whole mess or do you give the man his dignity and ignore his sobs?
Three out of Four Stars.
By David Sedaris
Edition: large print
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 2008
ISBN 0316024597, 9780316024594
512 pages
This is the first time I have ever liked a spider story. I almost stopped wanting to feed spiders to my cat. That feeling lasted less than twenty minutes.
I liked Essay #8 That's Amore, a tale of David's rude neighbor named Helen. I want a neighbor like this and when I get old. Actually, I almost want to be this neighbor. That sounds bad, but I just like the idea of watching out my window, yelling at people and being cranky at seventy.
This whole book walks that line that lives between awkward cringing and awkward shoegazing. What the fuck do you do when the person next to you on the plane has been moved to your row because he can't stop crying? Do you address it, allowing yourself to be sucked in to the whole mess or do you give the man his dignity and ignore his sobs?
Three out of Four Stars.
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