Review:What Sedaris does so well is to show his audience pictures. He doesn't just tell you about his family and the way he views them, he describes them so well that I found myself added to the story. I'm not actually in the book, but I felt ghostly close to the events that took place. I watched from the basement as he tells the other boys "It's against my religion to play poker." I find myself in the backseat of the car as his mother asked "Do you want me to give you a ride back to your little s... Read more

Review:I disclose up front that I am a huge Sedaris fan. "Me Talk Pretty One Day" was one of the most acidly funny books I ever read, and his short story "The Santaland Diaries" is nothing less than a masterpiece. And, I do not expect Sedaris to be "funny." Much of his most elegant prose, especially about his family, is not. But I admit to being very disappointed in "When You Are Engulfed in Flames."

I cannot explain exactly why I was disappointed. It's not that the writing, overall, was ba... Read more

Review:People will think your crazy as you laugh out loud to the book of short stories by Sedaris . I read the book on vacation at the jersey shore and I couldn't put the book down, whether I was by the pool or at the beach; I had to have it with me at all times.
This book would be worth it if it only had 2 stories in it, those being C.O.G and Naked. though funny as hell, this book isn't easy on Sedaris's family or for himself for that matter. he lays all on the line in a book no one should pass up. Read more

Review:Some amusing anecdotes but overall not that funny and lots of time spent on mundane activities.

Can't really relate to some of his generalizations about how horrible some groups of people are either. Read more

Review:I really love this book, I am very happy with the time it took to arrive it only took a few days and arrived sooner than I expected. This is a very interesting book Love the ASAPscience YouTube channel and hope they make more books in the future. Read more

Review:I bought this book after reading some of the author's recent comics on facebook. I was disappointed as these comics were not as funny and engaging. I am very much looking forward to his next book with more recent material, but I would not purchase this again. Read more

Review:I thought this was going to be a funny "motherhood" book in the style similar to Jen Lancaster, but I didn't find it particularly funny at all. I found it to be a rather sad commentary on suburban America and how we are raising our children. I am sure the author meant to convey some of the ridiculousness that's out there, but this went over the top in such a way I could not suspend my disbelief and not imagine her just telling everyone to screw off and moving out of there. If my children were tr... Read more

Review:Rarely do I read two amazing books back to back So You know I had to share this amazing book with you lovelies so let's get this pool party started ( pun intended)

44 chapters about 4 men by: BB Easton is not your run of the mill book its BB's memoir about her marriage && how she turned it up a few hot notches!

BB takes you on a journey from her teenage years of dating up to her married life with hottie husbot Ken!
While teaching him & us readers a few things that ca... Read more

Review:Twentysomething American Female reminisces about her hard-drinking first months living as an expat in Paris. Not really amusing or interesting. At least the French words are spelled correctly. Probably OK if you like that kind of thing. I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book, through Reading Deals, so I could give an honest review.I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book, through Reading Deals, so I could give an honest review. Read more

Review:You really can't make this stuff up! I laughed out loud, not the cute, "lol", but the snorting and wheezing laughing that draws attention. This is great stuff and I hope to one day, be in a book just like it! Read it. You will enjoy it. Read more