I'm really going to try to keep up on book reviews this year.
David Sedaris's Me Talk Pretty One Day was a book for short personal essays or vignettes. They did not necessarily equal a whole, other than snapshots of a herky-jerky life. Sedaris doesn't take himself too seriously and never insults the reader, which should be the goal of all writers.
The reviews printed at the front of the book promised tearful laughing fits. I did chuckle a few times, but more than anything I was able to relate to the author.
If nothing else. the story about his father's food hoarding habits will stay with me for awhile.
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