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Liquor cabinets and pianos have vanished from homes. It's been over fifty years since the last worthwhile war. Doctors never visit and no one hangs their clothes out to dry anymore. In Wasn't the Grass Greener?, Barbara Holland shares her sentiments on these deplorable results of "progress," where entertainment has come to replace idleness and children are skipping childhood. Written with impeccable style and a sharp wit, Holland's all-original essays are laugh-out-loud funny, whether or not you're old enough to remember clotheslines. Not quite a peaceful stroll down memory lane, Wasn't the Grass Greener? is a straight-up collection of a curmudgeon's complaints with a shot of nostalgia on the side.
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Bill Gooseberry
reviewed Wasn't the Grass Greener?: Thirty-three Reasons Why Life Isn't as Good as It Used to Be on November 02, 2020
Wasn't the Grass Greener?: Thirty-three Reasons Why Life Isn't as Good as It Used to Be
2020 bk 364. I like essays - they are a nice way to end the day, a short piece of reading and then off to sleep. I've even read other books by Barbara Holland and enjoyed them, but this, this book was wah, wah, wah all the way. What I thought would be a nice book of different pleasant encounters turned out to be all axe with no grindstone in sight - so she wrote a book. She isn't happy that time has passed, she bemoans the loss of the neighborhood tavern, that we don't just designate a kid a problem child but seek out reasons, that porches and people sitting on them have disappeared. Progress happens, not all of it is good, but to spend an entire book bemoaning everything that was supposedly lost and what has been gained, well, it isn't the type of book I want to end my day with. I have to admit, I got 3/4 of the way through and put it down.
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