All God's Creatures by Carolyn McSparren

[samvara]

LibraryThing Early Reviewers Book.

The story of tough workaholic veterinarian Maggie growing up and growing old(er) in Memphis. This didn't quite work for me, Maggie seemed so emotionally isolated and driven that I found her hard to warm to. I felt like all the relationship building and being human was happening off camera and the storytelling felt a bit choppy. This might have worked better as a much shorter book (maybe a series of vignettes).

I adore James Herriot and Gerald Durrell so have pretty high standards when it comes to animal stories.

Comments

[leecetheartist]

Durrell has great re-readability!

[samvara]

OMG I love his books.

[leecetheartist]

I've mainly read his biographical ones, you know, along the lines of Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons, but I also enjoyed Rosie is My Relative a lot too.

[samvara]

I've got umh... 9! They all have his wonderful sense of humour and that sense of love that permeates his work. Darn, I may have to re-read them all now :)

Beasts in My Belfry
My Family and Other Animals
Rosy Is My Relative
Catch Me a Colobus
Birds, Beasts and Relatives
Three Singles to Adventure
The Garden of the Gods
The Bafut Beagles
Fillets of plaice

[leecetheartist]

Great stuff. I have/had a lot of them, but not as many as you. I think I've read a lot of them in libraries.