When You Check In The Hotel Room

Note: I was reading "When You Are Engulfed In Flames" by David Sedaris when you first mentioned an independent reading book so i thought 'hey, non-fiction too! (sort-of)' and i picked it. Unfortunately i also finished it before i began blogging, so for now I am going to break the book up into three parts for each blog and talk about what i expected to happen as i was reading, etc.

Much like his other work, 'Engulfed In Flames' is a series of shorts of David Sedaris's life.I had read Sedaris before i read 'Engulfed', so i had some idea what to expect, namely, anything. Also to never, ever read him in public. Because as anyone who has read Sedaris will tell you, he is a very, very funny man. What really made me choose David Sedaris for this particular occasion is that his writing is all about the human experience. Reading his stories you will rarely find a moral, but there is more there than humor. David Sedaris has the guts to write about pieces of the human experience that most people are to ashamed or unobservant to admit even exist, and if they do, they certainly don't apply to themselves. That's why Sedaris rings true, that's why he is so funny, and that's why i should get a great grade on this reading blog even though its a day late and i chose a kind of inappropriate comedy as my independent reading book.