A Carnival of Snackery
David Sedaris
Little, Brown and Company
2021
Ms. Hen found this book at a Little Free Library near where she lives, and since she had read other books by this author, she picked it up.
She was daunted by reading 17 years of diaries, but she found the book a lot of fun, and it read rather quickly. His diaries are not all about him, mostly they're about the people he meets in the world.
One of the fascinating things that Ms. Hen found reading this, was that she was thinking of where she was in her life when the entry had been made. Current events are thrown in, and Ms. Hen remembers all of them.
Mr. Sedaris travels the entire world, and meets interesting people everywhere he goes. She wonders how he has the ability to have people tell them something interesting about themselves wherever he ends up. She thinks it might be because these people want to entertain him the way he entertains them. Ms. Hen decided that if she met him, she would go to a reading, and tell him that she writes a blog from the point of view of a hen purse. She hopes that would make him laugh.
Ms. Hen likes to laugh as well, and she finds quirky stories all around. Her favorite stories to write now are about people in the hospital where she works. Everyone who walks in the door is suffering, which Ms. Hen thinks makes for great conflict. Stories abound all over the world, and everyone has one, but capturing them is the beauty of the process of writing.
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