David Sedaris is one of my go-to audiobook authors (I think I've listened to just about everything he's published), so OF COURSE I had to give this a listen too. Covering 17 years of his adult life, this collection of diary entries runs the gamut from inane musings to jokes from book events to the truly random stories that Sedaris tends to attract. While these can sometimes be crass and absurd, perhaps the most unnerving are the entries from the last few years, covering the Trump administration, the early days of COVID-19, and the racial protests of 2020. It's odd to hear him — or Tracey Ullman, who narrates the entries written in the UK and Australia) — discussing things that are still ongoing, when most of Sedaris' previous writing has been about either less impactful things (what to name a squirrel, for example) or well in the past. That said, it's a delightful listen, and I loved it.
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