Matt
I picked this up after after reading Margaret Atwood's Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature and while it's fascinating as a historical document, the endless tales of woe and the (to modern eyes) totally unsympathetic character of the author makes it a real slog. There's something so joyless about her retelling of her emigration and years in the Canadian bush, you can't help but sympathise with the many villains who come along and fleece her and her husband with alarming regularity.
I picked this up after after reading Margaret Atwood's Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature and while it's fascinating as a historical document, the endless tales of woe and the (to modern eyes) totally unsympathetic character of the author makes it a real slog. There's something so joyless about her retelling of her emigration and years in the Canadian bush, you can't help but sympathise with the many villains who come along and fleece her and her husband with alarming regularity.