Reading List

December 31, 2009

Life With Father by Clarence Day

Mar gave me this book and I am glad she did. It is little sketches about life in a Victorian turn of the century home in New York – a more well to do turn of the century home. Most of the sketches are rather humorous. Father is most proper and really doesn’t like his calm and comfort disturbed. Mother is more adventurous and not so ordered. They do express themselves in their own particular way. It must be recognized that even tough the son writes the sketches, they are not about him. He is very true to the task of writing about father – with the occasional sidetrack into the feelings and life of mother.

It is a thoroughly enjoyable book, but not a lot happens. But it is probably one that doesn’t get read much anymore. Too bad. Well, maybe not. In our “enlightened society” we would have a tendency to judge father rather harshly.

No – not on the 501 list.