Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Holiday reading

'Tis the season to read "themed" literature.



I read Holidays on Ice again. For something like the fourth time. Still funny as the first time. This is a collection of essays from David Sedaris about the time he was working as an elf in Macy's Santaland. If you've never read Sedaris before, Holidays is "classic" Sedaris.

Very wry. Very dry.

Am also in the middle of the Holiday Season, two novellas (i.e. long short stories) by Michael Knight (no, not David Hasselhoff in Night Rider). It's one of these ultra sad books. This one is about a dysfunctional family (whose is not?), with a father coping with the death of his wife, his two grown sons distant. Not to be picked up if you get depressed during the holidays.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Completely agree: Holidays on Ice, very very dry.