![]() I really only called you to tell you to marry that guy who likes pam, get pregnant and eat only organic foods, no drugs (meaning like advil) and then give me your placenta.I only have 6 pills left.what to do otherwise? The rest of the email made no sense in or out of that context. I thought it was from that friend and was freaked out right away that she was asking me if someone was kissing her son. The subject line was, “does she ever kiss luke?” I have another friend, who is a non-placenta-eater, but who has a son named Luke. Still, though.Ī few weeks after my friend had her first baby, she had worked her way through the placenta pills that the midwife made for her, and she sent me the email below. Granted, she was a midwife in India for a while, so it makes some sense. How do I know this information? Because one of my dear friends cares a lot about people eating placenta. I guess that promotes bonding, though, so maybe the sheep was right. Now, I know that this is not the reason for eating placenta after childbirth – the real reason is that it contains natural opiates, so if you’re bummed out by childbirth (and, really, who isn’t?), it makes you feel better about the whole ordeal. So, the sheep mom in Sedaris' story explains to the crow mom that after her child’s birth, she ate her placenta because it promotes bonding with her child. This story is probably going to horrify you, though. I feel pretty okay making fun of her about an incident that happened with us because I’ll make fun of her to her face about it, and because I knitted her a bunch of baby sweaters, so that's gotta count for something. So, the sheep mom reminds me in many ways of a dear, dear friend of mine, who I totally love, and who is a sometimes goodreader. Then she meets a sheep, who is also a mom, but a mom totally impressed by her own momness. One of the stories in Squirrel is about a crow, and she’s a mom who’s not in love with the job. I have never born a child, so my opinions about child raising and childbirth have more to do with observational studies than actual experience. And something that people need to know about. First, Sedaris obviously understands what sociopaths bunnies are. There are so many things in my life to free associate with these stories because he got it all so fudging right, but I’m going to narrow it down to just a couple. I’m not saying this is better than his other books, because that would probably be a lie, but I think it’s at least as good as most of them. Especially for something that takes, like, two hours to read. It gets pretty touching and complex on the asshole theme. The O’Malley family basically nailed it when they said this is a book of fables about a bunch of assholes. (Also, weirdly, I just found out that will allow "fudge" as a replacement for "fuck," though to me there is a more obscene quality to "fudge," despite the fact that it is a yummy desert.) Anyway, I never realized before that it could make Sedaris' stories even more hilarious to anthropomorphize some animals in them WITH IAN FALCONER ILLUSTRATING. I’m using the uncomfortable word “fudge” in this review as much as possible because I find it extra-obscene and sweetly domestic at the same time. ![]() I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.ĭavid Sedaris is such a fudging ray of sunshine. I would actually like to meet someone that enjoys this book and let me in on the secret. I never laughed, I didn't relate and I had a yucky feeling after every chapter. I need to continue chapter after chapter of the same garbage. Seriously? I rarely leave a book unfinished even if I think it is terrible, because the overall concept must be reached for me to decide. the frog mother comes over looking for her children.blah, blah. ![]() Example: crow teaching ewe to mediate then plucks out baby lamb's eyes, new rat makes fun of other rat for having cancer saying it is the rat's own fault for being negative then new rat gets injected with AIDS, mouse chooses snake for pet and steels baby frogs to feed snake. I just have never associated with anyone so yucky. I think it is supposed to be funny because you can relate to the extreme. The concept is that animals have human traits and I think the author was trying to show that people are judgmental hypocrites, especially when it comes to choosing friends, raising children, dating, religion etc. The concept of Anthropomorphism makes you believe that this book will be excellent or is it because I had to wait on a HUGE waiting list from the library? Yes this book was in my mind terrible. ![]()
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