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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town | Stephen Leacock
3 posts | 6 read | 2 to read
Twelve episodes in the everyday life of the community of Mariposa
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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town | Stephen Leacock
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Oh, wow, that last entry really got me. 🥺
The majority of the book is full of sly, wry observations about slightly-larger-than-life characters making up a small, rural town, that, by the author's admission in the preface, is reminiscent of seventy or eighty real towns, and the characters are likewise somewhat of a pastiche of real people encountered. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The satire gets fairly dark in places, the first couple chapters read as isolated short stories, but then the stories start to get interconnected so that it feels like a run of chained chapters, with recurring characters, recounting remarkable incidents.
I love that a series of moments in the early 1900s feels so relatable in being subtly snide about small town shenanigans. 1mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? I just didn't expect such a strong wave of nostalgia from the last short story, where the only sharpness present is in reprimanding the assumed now-big-city reader for not visiting the small town, where the author recounts the train journey from city to town in such lovely detail, and all of a sudden I'm flashing back to traveling from city to town on break from university (by bus alas, no train), when family was still in the area, 1mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/4 and while I did go back every chance I could, it's still part of the adult experience to realize when you can't anymore. Leacock just reminds those who have the opportunity to do it before it's too late. 🥹
I will definitely be picking up more from this author.

⚠️Suicidal ideation, period typical misogyny 1mo
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janeycanuck
janeycanuck
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town | Stephen Leacock
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So delightful! I absolutely loved the story about the steamboat sinking in the lake with everyone on board - hilarious!! Leacock has a beautiful way of sending you down a path and then jerking you over to another one when he reveals a minor but story-altering piece of information. Like how the lake is only six feet deep.

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