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[azdesertrose]

I went to Chamblin's a while back and bought some books I'd been wanting for a while. I'm trying to complete my collection of Katherine Kurtz (still need one more Deryni book, one more Adept book, and the Templar series) and of James Herriot (still need James Herriot's Yorkshire but I think that's it).

I picked up The Lord God Made Them All and Every Living Thing during the Chamblin's trip. I've had All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and All Things Wise and Wonderful for a while, as well as Cat Stories and James Herriot's Dog Stories.

I could read those stories over and over again and never get tired of them. I'm not exactly sure why I love them so much. I tend to go to them when I'm feeling depressed because they make me smile. He had a great, and I think uniquely British, talent for placing himself at the butt of his own gently ironic humor.

He also puts me in mind, a bit, of another old favorite, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Not in writing style, to be sure, nor in content, but in that he documented a way of life just as it, for most intents and purposes, disappeared in a rush of improving technology.

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[cassandra63.livejournal.com]

I think I have his biography back at the ranch. Maybe I'll get it back one day and you can have it.

Also missing my stack of LIW books.

If you like Herriot try a guy called Gervaise Phinn who was a school inspector in Yorkshire. His anecdotes are in the same vein.