This book is amazing. Amusing, charming, soul-warming, and full of sweet characters whom you love even at their lowest (yes, I am aware that isn't a complete sentence). I never get tired of rereading this, or of recounting the stories out of it. They never fail to drag a smile and a laugh out of me,...
I have heard about this book and its sequels before, but I guess I remembered it somewhere on the background of my mind. When I saw by accident that this book was on sale, I bought it. I thought it started slowly - just as life in English countryside in the 1930s must have been slow and unhurried. W...
I have such good memories of these books... Charming, warm, funny, engaging and even sad at times, James Herriot writes about animals and farming and life and love in a style that appeals to all types and ages, I think. I may have to create a 're-read' tag just for books like these!
This is one of the first books I’ve read and really thought, here is a non-fiction book for someone who doesn’t read non-fiction. The author, James Herriot, shares tales of his life, with all its’ adventures and mishaps, as a country vet in North Yorkshire, the largest county in England. Like Dewe...
This book is a memoir of a James Herriot and follows him during his first two years as a country vet in the Yorkshire Dales. He joins the practice of Siegfried Frarnon and after Siegfried's brother Tristan fails his college exams he joins the practice as well. The book mostly consists of the various...
My family and I are working our way through this excellent series of audio books. I read them way back when, as the author was writing them, and while I completely enjoyed them, I missed a lot because I had no idea what the Yorkshire farmers were saying. In this version, the reader delivers the ve...
Our book club pick. Nice change of pace from all the dark fiction I've been reading. It's a pleasant read. More of a series of vignettes than what I would call a memoir.
I must have read this book 2 dozen times. I pull it out and re-read it when I need to laugh and laugh long and hard. The unfolding of a country vet in the stories of James Herriot is always a delight and pleasure to read.I re-read it this year, seeing all my old friends again with delight. Siegfr...
Some things don't age. I'm now keen to spend some time in the Dales though British and even Yorkshirean pals are most gruesome in their descriptions of blasted heath and bitter weather.
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