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Holidays on Ice: With Six New Stories

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Having heard his live readings on BBC radio, I have come to love his wonderful and often poignant observations on the absurdities of life. And constantly mocking them in the way a teenager does about older people and being so smug and sure they themselves are different.

We were asked to read "Santaland diaries" for our book group, and I found it both dissappointing and irritating, the more so in view of the "laugh out loud" hype. One enters and travels through a maze, a path which takes you from one festive environment to another. I thought I'd better read it now during the holidays so I wouldn't have to wait another year to get to it--I can never watch Christmas movies or read holiday stories when it's not Christmas; it's depressing. The holidays bring out something truly special in David Sedaris, making this more a "best of" than a mere holiday book. There was a line for Santa and a line for the women's bathroom, and one woman, after asking me a thousand questions already asked, which is the line for the women's bathroom?Best stories, in my opinion, were the grade school theater reviews, and the "prostitute" friend 😃😃😃👍 I got a great laugh from the Traditions of Christmas celebrations too😎. I am about halfway Santaland Diaries, and it doesn't disappoint, my only grumble is that it's a very short read (perhaps I should have taken notice of the amount of pages).

or what if I rate too many books highly (will people think I’m indiscriminate about which books are my favorites and therefore consider me unreliable? Those are my favorites, and I would guess the favorite of many another, since Sedaris would put out book after book based on this kind of material for the next two decades. Get in on his story now so you can savor the feeling of waiting impatiently for his next book - and there's no better way to start than to read Holidays on Ice. David Sedaris is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Public Radio International's "This American Life.Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. My urine had roaches and stem floating in it, but still they hired me because I am short, five feet five inches.

Raised in North Carolina, he has worked as a housecleaner and most famously, as a part-time elf for Macy's. I listen to the audio version which features Sedaris himself reading, I enjoy listening to him so much more then reading it,he brings that extra something. However, as a bright side to my mother’s fickle mental state, she was brilliant and often savagely funny when lucid. If you don't love Sedaris you may not enjoy the rest of the collection Santaland by far outshines the rest. They are hiring drivers' helpers for the upcoming Christmas season and I went to their headquarters filled with hope.When I was given a copy of HOLIDAYS ON ICE I knew what I was about to get into, so it sat on my shelves for a few months. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

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