Saturday, October 18, 2014

Book Excerpt for the Day


    He has the most extraordinary sense of direction I’ve ever seen in a mammal.  Even in Venice, where the streets were seemingly designed by ants, he left the train station, looked once at a map and led us straight to our hotel.  An hour after checking in he was giving directions to strangers, and by the time we left he was suggesting shortcuts to gondoliers.

    (from When You Are Engulfed In Flames, by David Sedaris)

     8½*/10.  The full review is here.
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