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4.17 AVERAGE
4.17 AVERAGE
I'm not sure what could be more comforting in this never ending pandemic than a greatest hits essay collection from David Sedaris.
medium-paced
The stories near the end of this collection were the ones that first made me fall in love with Sedaris when I read his latest book “Calypso”. So vulnerable, honest, and somehow funny even though he is often making himself and his family look like jerks. I think that is why I find his stories so awesome; you see him appreciate himself and others not despite the flaws and ugly parts of being human but because of them. If only we could all take life a little less seriously and laugh at ourselves more.
It was so fun to see his earlier works at the beginning of the collection and see his growth as an author.
It was so fun to see his earlier works at the beginning of the collection and see his growth as an author.
The Best of Me is indeed, the best of David Sedaris. I loved every single minute and was sad when I finished.
Nice to end this year of books with humor. Sedaris will always be a top shelf writer. He’ll have you laugh crying in the airport one minute then ugly crying the next. It’s like he allows you to be a Sedaris for a while, but without the commitment or the hassle.
I don't think I'll ever get tired of reading David Sedaris' essays even if they ones I've read before or heard him read. The mix of laugh out loud and cringeworthy and sad make it a new read every time.
An amazing collection of some of my favourite essays of his from over the years, plus some I was unfamiliar with. I could listen to him over and over again...and I do!
I really took my time with this one, bc when I had first started the stories were so different from each other that I needed to break at chapters and literally pause before starting fresh again - otherwise I felt a bit lost. Interspersing his actual family stories with fictional stories really threw me, and tbh I am just not a fan of the fictional stuff. There's something so literally fake about them, but can't fault a master too much I suppose. His nonfiction is what hits me personally and the way he can go from some annoying person on a flight to his asshole sister and back is like watching a stem turn into a flower. Frickin' poetic and magical as you're reading it.
Loved all the shorts in this book and the interview at the end too.