2023/163: The Plague and I — Betty MacDonald

2023/163: The Plague and I — Betty MacDonald

[The nurses] may have had their innate sympathy and kindness worn thin by the complete ungratefulness and foolhardiness of the patients, but to me it seemed more likely that they had obtained their vocational training kicking cripples and hitting small children. [loc. 1632]

An account of the author's nine-month stay in a sanitorium near Seattle in 1937-8. This was recommended to me as great pandemic reading. It took me a while to get around to it, but I can confirm that it is witty, dry and very much of its time. ( Read more... )