While this was entertaining, it just got to be too much of a good thing. But if you can put today's standards in perspective you will find much to laugh about as she amusingly describes the weather, her work on the farm, the animals, her neighbors, traveling salesmen, and moonshiners. By today's standards she was racist, smoked a million cigarettes, and was sharply critical. This humorous collection of Betty MacDonald's experiences on a rustic chicken ranch in the Pacific Northwest which she owned with her husband in the early 1940's, was written in a witty and sarcastic style that was entertaining yet dated. The pages were yellowed and it had the musty, nostalgic smell of a book that had survived the shelves for 75 years. The book I read was a lovingly worn, hardcover library copy which was published in 1945.
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