by Betty MacDonald
The Egg and I is a mostly autobiographical account about Betty MacDonald’s time on a chicken farm in the late 1920s in Washington state. Filled with humor, there’s plenty of odd characters, hardships to over come, new foods to be explored, and eggs to be gathered, cleaned, and packaged for sale. The...
I am nearly finished now, and I am bummed. I would have to say this book is somewhere in the realm of mildly amusing. Polite-grin-worthy. It is by no means hilarious, and not even really all that charming. Disappointing, considering how much I love the movie. The only truly likeable characters are t...
Betty MacDonald grew up middle-class and urbanized, learning to play the piano, draw, and dance. She wished repeatedly for more practical skills after she married a man whose greatest dream was to start a chicken farm. But the social world she was plunged into after they moved to a remote area of th...
Betty and her husband head to Washington State to start a chicken farm. Betty's citified look at the country and her backwater neighbors is a hoot.
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