Recent reading
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luzulaThe Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot (1981, audiobook)
I was trying out various audiobooks and going 'meh' until I realized that this was what I actually wanted to listen to. A+ vet stories from Yorkshire, charming and diverting as usual, and it's interesting to hear about the advances in veterinary medicine and what a change they made. I am sad that this is the last one and I have now listened to them all.
Flame-Coloured Taffeta by Rosemary Sutcliff (1986)
This, at 1750, is the book of hers set latest in time that I have read (though I think there's one set later?). It has smugglers and Jacobites, so of course I wanted to read it. Young Damaris who lives in smuggling country finds a wounded young man in the woods, and takes care of him. This has all Sutcliff's lovely writing and description, and I appreciated the female protagonist. It's nicely done how she is hovering on the cusp of adolescence, such that what might in a fourteen-year-old have been a full-blown crush on the mysterious stranger is now a childish adventure and fascination but with undertones of something more.
And arrrrgh, World of Books has stopped shipping to Sweden! Why?? And how am I now to get my fix of second-hand British books (like the Sutcliff above)? I really liked their cheap shipping and the fact that their packages somehow got past customs without getting stuck. *mourns* I have implored them to rethink it, let's see if they do...
I was trying out various audiobooks and going 'meh' until I realized that this was what I actually wanted to listen to. A+ vet stories from Yorkshire, charming and diverting as usual, and it's interesting to hear about the advances in veterinary medicine and what a change they made. I am sad that this is the last one and I have now listened to them all.
Flame-Coloured Taffeta by Rosemary Sutcliff (1986)
This, at 1750, is the book of hers set latest in time that I have read (though I think there's one set later?). It has smugglers and Jacobites, so of course I wanted to read it. Young Damaris who lives in smuggling country finds a wounded young man in the woods, and takes care of him. This has all Sutcliff's lovely writing and description, and I appreciated the female protagonist. It's nicely done how she is hovering on the cusp of adolescence, such that what might in a fourteen-year-old have been a full-blown crush on the mysterious stranger is now a childish adventure and fascination but with undertones of something more.
And arrrrgh, World of Books has stopped shipping to Sweden! Why?? And how am I now to get my fix of second-hand British books (like the Sutcliff above)? I really liked their cheap shipping and the fact that their packages somehow got past customs without getting stuck. *mourns* I have implored them to rethink it, let's see if they do...
