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The Holiday Season is Here, Which Means Another Annual Re-reading of…

13 Thursday Dec 2012

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WINTER BREAK IS HERE! (actually, I have my Chinese final next week, but I can probably ace that with my eyes closed) Now I am going to lock myself in and READ. Three whole weeks of freedom before I go back to 8:30 to 6:15 classes and survive off caffeine, whoo hoo!

I see many readers are stocking their December TBR with a lot of Christmas-y books. But I am not a very Christmas person (see how hipster I’m being?) Instead, I will re-read a Christmas-y article that never fails to make me laugh: David Sedaris’s Six to Eight Black Men (OR Listen to Sedaris read it on YouTube.)

Read it. It’s super short and it’s hilarious (and not the kind of “hilarious” that’s written in book blurbs, but NEVER turns out to be true.) Even Christina over at A Reader of Fictions agrees. We have good taste.

And because Esquire took it off their website and every other version I found on the web looks badly formatted (and is missing words,) I’ll just copy and paste it below. Way Back Machine to the rescue!

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Posted by Lilian @ A Novel Toybox | Filed under I Actually Read Stuff Other Than Books, Stuff A Website Should Have

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