Just finished: Cold Comfort Farm

Oh my! This was an excellent and deliciously satirical read. Why this poor book (and its author, Stella Gibbons) is not more widely known beggars belief. Cold Comfort Farm is a masterpiece of skewering the horrible cliches of English literature based in the “country-pastoral” genre (think Thomas Hardy’s The Trumpet Major). And the ending is, in my opinion, just as satirical of the “good old” Hollywood movie endings of the time period (mid-1930s). I highly recommend the book.