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Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu Trilogy, #2)

Gerald Durrell

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Sep 10, 2015 Elizabeth rated it it was amazing

Shelves: england, europe, fiction, greece

I love Durrell. Can I please move to Corfu?

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Dec 09, 2019 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it it was amazing

Shelves: nonfiction, family, mood-boosting-books, birds

I read My Family and Other Animals long ago at the recommendation of a book friend, and I've never forgotten how wonderful it was. But that was before I had heard of the Corfu series on PBS. And I had no idea that Gerald Durrell had written two other books about his life on Corfu.

This is just what I look for in a mood-boosting book. It's light, but it also has deep truths. It's beautifully written, but not written in a way that leaves your brain scrambled.

I think I shall read on with book three ...more

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Jul 01, 2011 mstan rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, british, memoir, src-fall-2011

Durrell's writing is so lovely that I remember wanting to visit Greece (specifically Corfu) solely because of My Family and Other Animals. Then I went to Athens when I was in college and found that it was extremely crowded and hot, hot, hot (even in October)... but I probably had the wrong company then and that coloured my view quite negatively.

This is the sort-of sequel to My Family and Other Animals, the latter of which I read as a young, young girl of 14 or 15. I can't tell if it's every bit ...more

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