Jerome K. Jerome
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Laughter Is The Best Medicine
Sometimes you just need to laugh, not smile slightly, not feel vaguely amused, but really laugh with that can’t catch your breath, might wake the whole house up laughter. The kind of laughter that makes everyone ask you what is so funny, the kind that makes your whole day brighter. What do you read when you need a funny book? One book that is guaranteed to make me laugh until I have tears streaming down my cheeks is Our Hearts Were Young And Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough. It is the account of their European tour in the 1920s. “We had been planning the trip for over…
- books, Connie Willis, Dorothy L. Sayers, e.m. delafield, Jane Austen, Jerome K. Jerome, Mollie Panter-Downes, WWII
In Case of Emergency
I was lying in bed the other night wondering what five books I would take with me if I was stranded on a deserted island. As you do. Of course, this led me to wonder how I ended up on the island. Was my ship captured by pirates and after I spurned the captain’s advances, I was put ashore where I stood gallantly waving farewell with my trunk by my side? (the trunk has to be there to contain the books.) Was my ship broken apart on the rocks after a day and night of a storm such as was never known in that latitude before? I made it ashore…
