Holidays on Ice, by David Sedaris

Unfortunately my only photo. Taken in ATL.

Today's post brings David Sedaris' Christmas selection, Holidays on Ice. I've only read one other Sedaris book before, and for some reason already owned this copy, so I was ready to dive in. I think he's hilarious and a wonderful writer and is basically everything I aspire to be in personal essay form. (Note: this collection is mostly fictional and had only 2 personal essays, if I remember correctly.) Unfortunately, I took this on vacation with me and also left it on vacation. It made it through my first day of travel, JAX to ATL to DCA to Maryland. It made it through the next day of travel, driving to D.C. But I lost it my last day of travel: it went with me from DCA to ATL, but sadly, it remains in the seat pouch of my window seat. I carried it on with me because I wanted to finish it on the plane (it was in my backpack; wouldn't fit in my purse), and I can remember thinking "I need to not forget this on the plane." Then what did I do? Leave it on the plane. I didn't realize until I was in the car on the way home so I'm not sure how to go about finding it now. Maybe someone else will discover it and it enlightens them to Sedaris. But here is my review about the book that got away, anyway. (I finished it before the plane even took off.)

A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

Stud.

I originally purchased this book immediately after watching Midnight in Paris in a theater by myself while my sister and my father were watching one of the Transformers movies a few blocks over. I was delighted to see it in this list, because I own a couple of Hemingway books that I have yet to read, and this is a good way to force me into it. AMF (no, not the drink adios motherfucker) is more of a memoir type book about Hemingway's time in France. It was published posthumously and this particular edition has a TON of background information in the foreward, as well as pictures of the handwritten/typed copies by Hemingway. It's also split into sections where the entries are done, as well as a fragments section. I feel a little wary about reading books posthumously by established authors, because it seems very undone and intrusive. However, going into this knowing Hemingway hated it and I agreed with him, gave me peace of mind. Let's get into it!

The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank

I'm running out of backdrop ideas.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Notes in the Marginz. Clearly I've been doing a fantastically shitty job at running this blog, and while I haven't updated, I have read books! This is the first of three that I read and haven't written reviews about, so while I apologize for my absence, you'll have three new posts. It's like I'm almost doubling my blog. According to Goodreads, I started this book on March 13 and finished it March 15. The only book between this and my last post that I was attempting to read was George Orwell's 1984, which I have basically given up on and will be the last book I read for this project. If you live under a rock, TDOAYG is Anne Frank's diary. She was a Jewish girl whose family was hiding from the German army during World War II. If you don't live under a rock, you're probably wondering how the heck I haven't read this, and if I actually live under a rock. Well, now I have, I live in my parents' house, and let's get into it.