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Monuments in Darkness.
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Classic serial killer/mind games-with-detective novel, but with more layers and misdirections and twists than you might expect. As we learn in the book, the Fourth Monkey Killer has an agenda, and a plan – and no one’s going to keep him from executing it (literally). A diary provides a second element of story that provides plenty of squirm-worthy moments and some genuine surprises. It says something that I went out and got the next two books in the series, which continue and conclude the mind (and body) count between the killer and the detective in an engaging, if sometimes indulgently long-winded way. A prequel, apparently, is on the way.
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
Even in his diaries, where he can be anything he wants, David Sedaris is never more, or less, his own self. Empathetic, selfish, courageous, craven, enjoying his wealth, sharing filthy jokes people give him at signings, arguing with and loving his longtime partner Hugh, siblings, and a panoply of personalities from all over the world. Also, he picks up trash as a hobby. These snack-sized (pun intended) excerpts from 17 years of diaries are fun, snappy, insightful, and a kind of time travel. Also, deeply funny. It takes a particular dedication to a writer's voice to want to read their diaries, and to my delight, spending time with Sedaris' mundane (and sometimes quite extraordinary) daily life is wonderful, hilarious, and sometimes even gross.
There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.
If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street; collecting Romanian insults, or being taken round a Japanese parasite museum. There's a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party-lots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs.
These diaries remind you that you once really hated…
