"For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. 'C'est la guerre, ' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's ...
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"For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. 'C'est la guerre, ' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's final memoir, Onions in the Stew recounts her second attempt at farm-living, this time on Washington's then-remote Vashon Island along with her second husband, Don MacDonald, and her two teenage daughters.
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It's as if she has gained a name as an author and thinks we want to know more about her family and how they live. I didn't.
wordcrazy
Aug 6, 2009
Another slice in Betty MacDonald's life
I originally read Onions in the Stew when I was in college. MacDonald's ability to draw the reader into her world is delightful. The humor is often at the expense of turmoil and strife but it's that kind of tenacity that builds character. And Betty MacDonald has plenty to keep us all laughing and worrying and wondering as we navigate the choppy waters of her life on Vashon Island.
Buy it and read it - you'll get a kick out of it for sure.
