Pre-numbered label used for registration. Purchased cheap from a library book sale.

From Amazon.com:
It just isn’t fair: most of us would be lucky to be able to express ourselves in writing half as well as David Sedaris does in his new book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. But on top of his skills with the written word, the author also has substantial gifts as a performer, and he proves this on the audio version of the book. In his essay The Change in Me, Sedaris remembers that his mother was good at imitating people, and it’s clear that he takes after her. Whether he’s doing impressions of high-voiced brother Paul, or recalling times when he and his sisters tried to win good karma by speaking and acting like well-behaved, fairytale children, Sedaris’s nuanced performance hits the right note on both the opening, comedic stories, and the more poignant essays that tend to come later in the reading. In fact, for those who have already read some of the best stories in other publications including The New Yorker, the CD or cassette version of this collection is probably the best bet for furthering your appreciation of the material.

Sedaris’s career is closely linked with two things: audio (he was discovered by NPR’s Ira Glass), and the personal lives of himself and his family. In Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, he describes fights with his boyfriend, and his sister-in-law’s difficult pregnancy. When sister Lisa complains about the stories involving the family, he writes about that, too. Sedaris's latest provides more evidence that he is a great humorist, memoirist and raconteur, and readers are lucky to have the opportunity to know him so well. Perhaps they are luckier still not to know him personally.

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Sending this wishlist book to Ms. June, VeganMedusa, as part of the Southern Cross 2009 Monthly Exchange on BookObsessed.com. Thanks for organising this, and I hope you will enjoy the book that I picked for you! :)

Thanks leeny! Always a pleasure to get a David Sedaris book. :)

Wow, another great Sedaris book. Up with his best, for sure. I particularly enjoyed the chapter about Tiffany, Nuit of the Living Dead, well, all of them really!
This is now going to another NZ bookcrosser. Hope you enjoy it!

Forgot to journal this - posted on Monday, I think. Sorry for the delay but hopefully you'll like it as much as I did. :)

So excited to find this sitting on my desk! Thank you so much, VeganMedusa - it's much appreciated. Thanks also to Leeny, for setting the book free in the first place. Once I've read it, I 'll pass it on to the colleague who gave me Forest of Hours ...

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Great book! Really funny :-) Gave it to Mich during a great weekend on Kapiti Coast - it'll now wing it's way to Auckland ...