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> Tag: Gerald Durrell

End of Year Final

Phases of Gravity by Dan Simmons

The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White

The Peripheral by William Gibson

Stella Maris by Cormac Mccarthy

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens

Liberation Day by George Saunders

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

December 31, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Phases of Gravity One of the very few “realistic” novels by Dan Simmons. Usually his novels are science fiction, horror, fantasy, or some combination of those. Sometimes his books are noir or suspense, and even though those books take place in the real world, it’s just not quite the same thing as realism. Don’t tell Raymond Chandler I said this.  This book was written in the late 1980s and our lead character Dan Baedecker is a retired astronaut who has also in recent years becomes […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Christopher Hitchens, Christos tsiolkas, Cormac McCarthy, dan simmons, George Saunders, Gerald Durrell, Theodore White, william gibson

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:701 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Christos tsiolkas, Cormac McCarthy, dan simmons, George Saunders, Gerald Durrell, Theodore White, william gibson ·
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This is the chronicle of a six-month trip that my wife and I made to Bafut, a mountain grassland kingdom in the British Cameroons in West Africa.

A Zoo in my Luggage by Gerald Durrell

March 30, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a memoir piece (and apparently part of a set of four) from Gerald Durrell, brother of Alexandria’s Lawrence Durrell, and also the writer of the series My Family and Other Animals. This memoir is about the various trips he and his wife made in the 1960s looking for animals to create a zoo. They begin in Nigeria and West Africa picking up a lemur here, a bush baby there, and eventually look for larger animals as they go. The premise, according to Durrell, is […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: A Zoo in my Luggage, Gerald Durrell

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:161 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: A Zoo in my Luggage, Gerald Durrell ·
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“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.”

February 8, 2017 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

I feel like I should have liked this book so much more than I did. The writing was good, the subject was interesting and the animals were fantastic. But about halfway through I started to feel like I had read the whole book and it was starting all over again. It’s amazing how stories of various exotic animals in Greece can get repetitive after a while but for some reason they did. Gerry’s family decided to move to Greece (to escape the cold and wet […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Gerald Durrell

badkittyuno's CBR9 Review No:30 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Gerald Durrell ·
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