Book #12 - With Malice Toward Some

Here's how awesome reading is:  Recently, I read a new completely hilarious collection of essays by Laurie Notaro, which led me (given that it is 2012) to see where she might be on Facebook.  And it turns out that she's not just on Facebook, she also makes book recommendations (on both FB and Good Reads).  And lucky me, I found one of her recommendations:  in particular, With Malice Toward Some by Margaret Halsey!

Margaret Halsey, in 1938, wrote her impressions of being an American in England and Scandinavia (and a brief stint in Paris) with humor, biting anecdotes, and cleverisms I wish I'd thought of myself.  They're collected in the now out-of-print book With Malice Toward Some [which some readers are sourcing from rare booksellers.]

Me, I went OLD SCHOOL.  I went to the LIBRARY.  There was a copy of the book in the Widener Stacks (not even in cold storage -- in the STACKS!).  I checked it out.  The last time it was checked out was 1997.  The time before that was 1978.

I am pretty sure that I have now assembled enough data points for some undergraduate feminist scholar to pull a Kate Chopin and get a hella glory day for Margaret Halsey coming up.  Am I right?  Can I get a "hell yeah"??

Read the book.  It doesn't disappoint.