reading (Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim)

I finished David Sedaris' "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" last night. Sedaris has a gift for perfect phrasing. There were many laugh out loud lines for me. Unfortunately, the theme of this book could be summed up in people are vile. The telling is funny. The phrasing is divine. But in almost every story the tone portrays the characters as common, mean, and petty. I don't remember getting this impression from "Me Talk Pretty One Day", but I'm not sure whether it's a difference in me or a difference in the books.  Perhaps I'll reread "Me Talk Pretty" and find out.

6. David Sedaris "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim"

the slippery slope

Tonight's project was putting bookplates on the books. I had started this a long while ago and periodically make further progress. Sometimes I'm even cunning enough to tag a book when it comes in the door. The problem is in order to put a bookplate on a book, you have to open it. The opening bit, that's easy. Even applying the bookplate, in the event the book hasn't already been tagged, doesn't take long. It's the closing bit that becomes tricky. It's always a case of: "Oh, I haven't read this in a long time, maybe I'll should just..." Or the alternate: "Oh, I've never read this and it doesn't look too long..." There is a reason I never finish with this particular project.

Of note: We have three copies of "Small Gods", two hardback and one paperback. I guess that would make for good simultaneous reading for a triad. We have two copies of "Good Omens", one trade paper and one hardback. We also have two copies of "Lost in a Good Book", one trade paper and one hardback. Not that you can have too many copies of these books.