I am Reading
posted by Jen | 9:15 PM
I just finished All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot, and I'm working on The Lord God Made Them All. These books are the last two books in a four book memoir series written by a country vet from Yorkshire. He started practicing just before WWII. I read the first two books in this series, All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful as a young adult. To be honest, I never realized he'd written any more books until Cari said something about it when we were talking about them.
If you've never read any James Herriot - do. He's got a lot of interesting stories, and he just paints a beautiful and compelling picture of rural farming in mid-20th century England. They aren't difficult reads - I believe I read them for the first time in elementary school. I don't think that they are any worse for the intervening 20 years, though.
If you've never read any James Herriot - do. He's got a lot of interesting stories, and he just paints a beautiful and compelling picture of rural farming in mid-20th century England. They aren't difficult reads - I believe I read them for the first time in elementary school. I don't think that they are any worse for the intervening 20 years, though.
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2 Comments:
Well, he had to finish the poem, didn't he? ;)
All things bright and beautiful,
All things great and small,
All things wise and wonderful -
The Lord God made them all.
-"Maker of Heaven and Earth", Cecil Francis Alexander
I used to love those books when I was a kid! I was just thinking the other day I should re-read them.
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