Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

I just finished reading Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock. I borrowed this book from my Mom, who got it from a gift exchange, where it was contributed by someone who received it in a culture exchange at a Diabetes conference that brought nurses together from all over the country. My Mom has valued it much more than the original owner did, and she lent it to me with the recommendation that it is very charming.

Charming it is. Sunshine Sketches is about the inhabitants of a small town in Ontario. The stories are amusing, but one of the book's most interesting features is its narrator. He seems gullible and eternally optimistic, and much of what he relates is cause for a chuckle as we can see through what he says. He is boastful and egocentric, assuring the reader of the importance of his tiny town in the grand scheme of things, and yet he still remains charming.

Stephen Leacock is a Canadian author, and the book was written in 1912.