One of my comfort reads....fell in love with it again when looking for a piece of humourous fiction for a literature event. "Dodo was a breed known as a Dandy Dinmont. They look like long, fat, hair-covered balloons, with minute bow legs, enormous and protuberant eyes, and long flopping ears. Strang...
So very amusing and heartwarming. I wish I'd come across My Family and Other Animals when I was little! I enjoyed Gerald's explorations and fascinating descriptions of nature and its creatures, combined with hilarious family dynamics. The asthmatic guest and his horse-blanket, Margo kissing a pair o...
1/2010 Review:I inhabit this book. I walk through the olive groves and swim in the crystal seas of pre-war Corfu. I think I can never go to Greece because of this book. I would want the taxis to be horse-drawn, and the small boys to be ranging freely about the island.I love so much about this book i...
I wish I had written a review after I finished this, but I didn't. So until the next reading, I'll have to settle for plugging in a couple of quotes in place of a review. "Why should we have to fawn all over the old hag because she's a relation, when the really sensible thing to do would be to burn...
I'd seen this mentioned several times asa favorite book, so I was really happy when redhouse agreed to atrade for it.And, now that I've just finished reading it, I must say that Iabsolutely loved this book. The characters are so distinctlydescribed that I could probably pick them out were I in Corfu...
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