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Holidays on Ice: With Six New Stories

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If the very thought of Christmas makes you want to run screaming for a wig or yarmulke, consider including David Sedaris's new and updated Holidays on Ice in your disguise kit. Those are my favorites, and I would guess the favorite of many another, since Sedaris would put out book after book based on this kind of material for the next two decades.

Even worse than applying is the very real possibility that I will not be hired, that I couldn't even find work as an elf. Since several of the pieces were previously published, I judge this book could have been postponed until Sedaris came up with a complete new set of stories.I gave this two stars only for "Santaland Diaries" - otherwise it'd be a solid one (for lack of a worse ranking). They closed the meeting saying, "I want you to remember that even if you are assigned Photo Elf on a busy weekend, YOU ARE NOT SANTA'S SLAVE. I feel weird reviewing this book right now because the honest truth is: I really genuinely did not like it. This book seems sort of thrown together, most of the stories not relating to anything in particular, whether to each other or to any unified theme, but I would expect some of his other collections to have better focus, and I will retain his other books in my “to read” list based on that expectation. I figure that at least as an elf I will have a place; I'll be in Santa's Village with all the other elves.

Form letters—letters sent at Christmas generally boasting of a family’s all-around success and wholesomeness—were targets of particular glee. Instead, I will most likely continue to receive the banal information of my friends and family: Little Billy is doing this; we redecorated our pantry; Joe sure likes college. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas.David Sedaris is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Public Radio International's "This American Life.

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