Status Updates From Me Talk Pretty One Day (Edi...

gobbling up a few pages during lunch break😌🥗🌮

finished: Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities (pages 16-31)

Page 30
"(...) but that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top. I'd done my solo and would now move on to pursue other equally unsuccessful ways of getting attention."

David’s a hater and kinda funny

finished: Go Carolina (pages 03-15)

Page 7
"I liked the idea that a part of one's body might be thought of as lazy - not thoughtless or hostile, just unwilling to extend itself for the betterment of the team."

This book has no business being hilarious and simultaneously devastating. I’m here for it

finished: introduction to the 2013 version (originally published in 2000)

I normally skip introductions. With old books, they tend to be "spoilers", and if it's an introduction by someone who isn't the author, I frankly 🤷duncur

But this one is by Sedaris himself and already had me choking on my spit on page two, so I'm hopeful the book will have retained its charm over the years wohoo

Re-read!
Gifted this book to Michael for his birthday since David Sedaris was my funny go-to author for chuckles when I was a teenager --- I have!! however!! never read him in english so I'm a mixture of excited and anxious to find out if he still lands with me now :D