Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

7 reviews

prettiestwhistles's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcohol, and Excrement

Moderate: Classism, Blood, Animal death, and Car accident

Minor: Cancer and Death of parent

miniingrid's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Debo decir que los personajes de la serie (el remake, no la antigua) no son tan carcas como en los libros. Pero sí han sabido mostrar lo entrañables que son y lo que disfrutan siendo veterinarios de campo.
Las descripciones de los paisajes y del trabajo que hacen son muy evocadoras y es fácil imaginarse allí mientras las lees.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Animal death, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Infidelity, and Sexism

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Cursing, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Car accident, Medical content, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Grief, Vomit, Classism, and Alcoholism

rachelditty's review against another edition

informative lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

4.0

This was such a fun little read. My grandma told me about this series when I saw her at Thanksgiving a few months ago, and she told me she missed her old copies that got lost. For Christmas, I got her an edition of this book from 1971, and she got me the newest edition from 2018. Can't wait to call her and tell her how much I enjoyed James Herriot's stories; he's got a great sense of humor, and I loved learning about his practice. I hope to pick up the rest of the series one day, too.

Some quotes I liked:

"It was easy to be a prophet of doom when the young men emerging from the colleges after a hard five years' slog were faced by a world indifferent to their enthusiasm and bursting knowledge," (p. 8).

"The sight of that man dancing frantically on his patient's ribs taught me a great truth--that I was going to look just as big a fool at fairly regular intervals throughout my career," (p. 37).

"It was as though he recognized something there--something of the strength and authority of t'owd doctor--and reached out eagerly toward the lost days," (p. 46).

"Yet what made him trail down that hillside every day in all weathers? Why had he filled the last two years of those two old horses with peace and beauty? Why had he given them a final ease and comfort which he had withheld from himself? 
It could only be love," (p. 285).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, and Alcoholism

ono_odog's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, and Medical content

meganpbennett's review against another edition

As much as I love Herriot’s writing and the beautiful way he describes Yorkshire, there was far too much graphic animal death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcohol, Blood, Medical content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

silvani's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Each chapter is a short anecdote, this would be perfect to read one chapter at a time over morning coffee.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Animal death, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol