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| Original Title: | All Things Bright and Beautiful |
| ISBN: | 0312330863 (ISBN13: 9780312330866) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | All Creatures Great and Small #3-4 |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
| Literary Awards: | California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Young Adult (1977) |
James Herriot
Paperback | Pages: 378 pages Rating: 4.32 | 64380 Users | 999 Reviews
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| Title | : | All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small #3-4) |
| Author | : | James Herriot |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 378 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2004 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published August 15th 1974) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Animals. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Classics |
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"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." —Associated Press The second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world. Now in a new edition for the first time in a decade, All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants—both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients and their equally varied owners. "Humor, realism, sensitivity, earthiness; animals comic and tragic; and people droll, pathetic, courageous, eccentric—all of whom he views with the same gentle compassion and a lively sense of the sad, the ridiculous, and the admirable." —Columbus DispatchRating Containing Books All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small #3-4)
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I first read this book 30 years ago, and I this week I listened to it in the car on a long road trip. These books are amazing and so funny. I spent half the drive going down the road laughing out loud in my car (and sometimes even tearing up a bit). When I was a child I was sure I wanted to be a veterinarian. I think these books probably made a huge contribution that. I never did become a vet, but I still love the books.There are some books you read where you just wish you could live in the world the writer portrays. James Herriot is like that for me. His stories of 30s rural Yorkshire life as a vet are warm and engaging, funny and lively. He has the ability to stir the soul, as when he writes about treating the last plow horse before tractors take over farmwork, and the funnybone, as when he describes his dealing with his crazy boss, Sigfreid. This is another book of short stories, loosely held together as one
I read this delightful series of books back in the 1970s when they were first released. I was a teenager then, and I find that a lot of the books I loved as a teenager are not as enjoyable to me when I reread them as an adult. Not the case here. Although I did listen to the audio version this time instead of actually reading the book, I found it just as delightful and pleasant as I did when reading it all those years ago. The reader on the audio version's voice complemented the written word, and
Theres something so very soothing about these memoirs. Whether James Herriots appointments were with a difficult bull needing a nose ring or a favourite dog whod injected rat poison, or cat hit by a car, there is a general sense of practicality, competence and compassion that permeates each interaction between James and his clients and patients. I wonder how much a large animal vets life differs now (obviously meds and surgical procedures are better now). I imagine the long days and night visits
I always enjoy rereading James Herriot's memoirs of his experiences as a veterinarian in Yorkshire in the first half of the previous century. His tales of treating farm animals and household pets, and of the human characters he met along the way, are what I have to describe as "heart-warming". They're not saccharine, though, I promise. He's funny, too. Even though I've read his stories multiple times since middle school, I find myself laughing aloud.This book comes second in the standard
It was one of the most satisfying experiences of my working life. Not clever, but a magical transformation; from despair to hope, from death to life within minutes.James Herriots memoirs are my desert island books. If I ever embark on an iffy boat trip, theyll be in the top of my bag, right next to the matches and Wet Ones. Theyre comfort reads of the best kindnot in the sense that every story ends happily (some dont), and certainly not in the sense that life in rural England was easy (it wasn
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