{"id":2629,"date":"2024-06-23T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2024-06-23T21:28:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:28:17","slug":"book-when-you-are-engulfed-in-flames-by-david-sedaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/06\/23\/book-when-you-are-engulfed-in-flames-by-david-sedaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/whenyouareengulfed-677x1024.png\" alt=\"Cover of Book: When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris\" class=\"wp-image-2630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/whenyouareengulfed-677x1024.png 677w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/whenyouareengulfed-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/whenyouareengulfed-768x1162.png 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/whenyouareengulfed.png 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Either this book cover was very upsetting to the man sitting two seats away from me, or my hair was attacking someone without me noticing.  I&#8217;m still unsure why he kept looking at the book\/me reading and then away&#8230;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When You are Engulfed in Flames<\/strong> <br>by David Sedaris<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/david-sedaris\/when-you-are-engulfed-in-flames\/9780316154680\/\">published by Hachette (Back Bay Books)<\/a><br>2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Sedaris is a storyteller, and whether that story is a real one about having a truck driver attempt to persaude him to exchange sexual acts, or an imagined one about majoring in Patricide at Princeton, he tells these stories in a dry, engaging, and periodically distressing way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I laughed loudly enough that I may have alarmed the neighbors.  (To soften this strong endorsement, I admit that I laughed less often than I did while reading <em>Let&#8217;s Explore Diabetes With Owls<\/em>:  some of this relates to being familiar with his work, and laughing quietly rather than loudly.  You know what I mean.) The only repeat story was the Normandy creepy-old-man story, but all others were new to me.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recommend this collection if you like his other story collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedarispublished by Hachette (Back Bay Books)2008 David Sedaris is a storyteller, and whether that story is a real one about having a truck driver attempt to persaude him to exchange sexual acts, or an imagined one about majoring in Patricide at Princeton, he tells these stories in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/06\/23\/book-when-you-are-engulfed-in-flames-by-david-sedaris\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book: When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}