{"id":34997,"date":"2018-07-14T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=34997"},"modified":"2018-07-14T23:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T03:36:11","slug":"review-of-calypso-by-david-sedaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=34997","title":{"rendered":"Review of Calypso, by David Sedaris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/calypso_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/calypso_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35125\" \/><\/a><em>Calypso<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by David Sedaris<br \/>\nread by the author<\/p>\n<p>Hachette Audio, 2018.  6.5 hours on 6 CDs.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing David Sedaris read his books always makes me laugh.  I will admit that his humor is often crude or rude \u2013 but, yes, it is very funny.<\/p>\n<p>In this book he mostly talks about his family.  This includes the death by suicide of one of his sisters, so you wouldn\u2019t think there\u2019s a lot of room for humor \u2013 but if you think that you probably haven\u2019t ever listened to David Sedaris.<\/p>\n<p>He also talks about buying a beach house on the Carolina coast to share with his family.  And his father, who is politically conservative, getting older.  And David himself getting older and dealing with physical challenges \u2013 and getting addicted to his Fit Bit.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of what\u2019s funny about this audiobook is also very strange \u2013 like feeding his own tumor to a snapping turtle.  But what can I say?  It\u2019s also incredibly funny the way David Sedaris tells it.  I guess it helps to know you\u2019re doing something strange.<\/p>\n<p>I always say that nothing is better for keeping me awake on a long drive than a good laugh.  You can find that here.  (Though let me give fair warning:  I wouldn&#8217;t want to explain these jokes to kids.  In fact, it might be embarrassing if anyone else were in earshot.  Funny, though!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidsedarisbooks.com\/\">davidsedarisbooks.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachetteaudio.com\/\">hachetteaudio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1478964170\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/calypso.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/calypso.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library audiobook from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calypso by David Sedaris read by the author Hachette Audio, 2018. 6.5 hours on 6 CDs. Hearing David Sedaris read his books always makes me laugh. I will admit that his humor is often crude or rude \u2013 but, yes, it is very funny. In this book he mostly talks about his family. This includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,17,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-humorous","category-nonfiction-review","category-true-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}