When You Are Engulfed In Flames

Title: When You Are Engulfed In Flames
Author: David Sedaris
Pages: 323

(NON-SPOILER INFO)A collection of short stories from author David Sedaris’ life with subjects that include a parasitic worm, an encounter with a dingo, the buying of a human skeleton, and attempting to learn Japanese in Tokyo.

(SPOILER INFO)It’s Catching: The story of germs and how some people see them everywhere.
Keeping Up: A fight between a couple on the street reminds David of his relationship with Hugh and how Hugh always walks ahead of him.
The Understudy: An experience with a horrible babysitter named Mrs. Peacock.
This Old House: David’s obsession with old fashioned things leads him to an old house with a like-minded roommate Rosemary.
Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?: David’s experiences and quest for manly accessories.
Road Trips: David has experiences with admitting his sexuality.
What I Learned: David’s experiences with Princeton.
That’s Amore: David becomes friends with his cantankerous neighbor Helen.
The Monster Mash: A fascination with the dead.
In the Waiting Room: Unable to understand French, David ends up in a hospital waiting room in nothing but his underwear.
Solution to Saturday’s Puzzle: While on an airplane ride, David encounters a pushy passenger.
Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool: David’s parents become interested in art.
Memento Mori: David buys Hugh a skeleton for his birthday and later regrets it.
All the Beauty You Will Ever Need: David buys marijuana from a trailer home.
Town and Country: A story of how a person looks and how the act differs greatly.
Aerial: Birds begin to attack the Sedaris home.
The Man In the Hut: David befriends the neighbor suspected to being a child molester.
Of Mice and Men: David practices for conversations with articles from the newspaper.
April In Paris: David starts studying and the loving the spiders in his window.
Crybaby: David must sit next to a Polish man on an airplane who was just lost his mother.
Old Faithful: What being in a monogamous relationship means.
The Smoking Section: David tries to quit smoking by moving to Tokyo for three months.

(MY VERDICT)
My favorite story was definitely The Smoking Section, as I related to it so much. Overall I gave the entire book 3 and ½ stars.