Betty MacDonald 
Plague and I [EPUB ebook] 

A pre-WW2 American humorist contracts TB and "writes about her seclusion in a way that is painfully, barkingly funny" (Lissa Evans, The Guardian)."Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can’t even remember where you were going."Thus begins Betty Mac Donald’s memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the "White Plague." Mac Donald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium-making all of us laugh in the process."Improbably funny. . . equally remarkable." -Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly"Can you imagine writing a whole book about being forbidden to do anything other than lie in bed? But Betty does, and she somehow makes it a riveting chronicle." -Lory Widmer Hess, Emerald City Book Review"An appetizing, well-seasoned feast. Mac Donald’s sharp, witty observations as she spends almost a year in The Pines Clinic, outside of Seattle, are perfectly pitched . . . with a huge dollop of idiosyncratic humour . . . Mac Donald is an impressive and engaging storyteller." -Jules Morgan, The Lancet