Chapter One Hundred Ninety-One: Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002

Hello readers, and sorry for the long wait since my last post!  The summer was far busier than I expected, not that I haven't been reading and listening to a lot of excellent books!  But for now, I want to write about David Sedaris's newest, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002.  I listened to this on audio--he reads his own work, which makes it so much more personal, as excerpts from someone's diary should be.  Really, give it a listen.  It took me a few discs to get really into Theft by Finding, but I felt my patience was rewarded and by the end, I was sorry to part ways with this book and found myself missing the sound of his voice in my car.  While some of the diary entries were familiar to me from Sedaris's other personal essays, many were not, and I always enjoy his wry observations on the absurdities of humankind.  And somehow, even describing some of the grimmer aspects of human behavior, Sedaris always leaves me with a sense of hope, if not for humankind on the whole, than at least for the possibility of finding the humor that's lurking in the people and situations around me.