Book: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Author: David Sedaris
Published: 2000 (Back Bay Books)
Pages: 272
My thoughts on David Sedaris will be explained through two recent, unrelated quotes.
“We have his books at the library,” said my boyfriend during a return trip to Barnes and Nobel. (Hello, my name is Melanie, and I’m addicted to ALL OF THE BOOKS.)
But if I buy them, I can keep his words close enough to reach for and curl up in like my college comforter whenever I need them. They are mine to soothe on demand for however long it takes me to wear out the spines, and then again however long it takes the duct tape that repaired the spines to wear out. And then I’ll just have to be extra careful when I get that special kind of depressed that well-written flippant humor can make better.
“Don’t worry so much, okay?” said a friend after we spent a lunch talking about life after college.
It’s good advice. I do anyway, and so does David Sedaris, and he’s so good at making light of it that it makes me laugh at the absurdity of all this worrying while recognizing and appreciating the solemn undertow that’ll drown us all if we think about it too much.
That is why I bought this book and have already devoured it and don’t regret it at all.
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