It didn't take me nearly as long to read this as I had originally planned. (Not, only was it a good book, but I also didn't have power Monday night and, having nothing better to do than take a nap, which I had already done, I just read until I finished the book.)
The book as a whole was really funny and I almost forgot that it was nonfiction! My absolute favourite part was in one of the essays where Sedaris talks of his adult life in New York in a small apartment with a female cat named Neil. The funniest part (and this is gonna sound really mean) was when the cat died and was cremated. Not knowing what to do with the ashes, Sedaris scatters her ashes on the carpet and the vacuums them up, seeing as how Neil had always preferred the indoors to the outdoors.
Sedaris came out with a new book fairly recently, so I think I'm going to read that one next... But first I have to finish The Historian. I'm just having trouble getting back into it....
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Combining Sedaris with The Historian was probably a good idea--if nothing else, you got a break from the terror in TH. There are parts that get very creepy when you read it alone at night and the wind howls outside....
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