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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
Had a spanking pleasure reading this. None of those perplexing mysteries to keep one on edge but an ambience of rustic charm and humour that had definitely kept me turning the pages.
Don't expect a life-changing experience here. Just a good old fashion light reading injected with Irish wit. It stands up for a reread in my book.
Don't expect a life-changing experience here. Just a good old fashion light reading injected with Irish wit. It stands up for a reread in my book.
This was a very light, enjoyable read. The characters are well-developed and I can't wait to finish the series to see what becomes of them.
This was exactly what it says, a cute homey tale of life in a small town mid-century town in Ireland. Some mild humor made it exactly what I needed in the midst of a pandemic.
A shoe wielding doctor who cuts the legs on the chairs in his waiting room to make them uncomfortable and sort out the social calls from the real illnesses, I love Dr. OReilley!
This is a completely charming book. When young Doctor Barry Laverty comes to interview with Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reily, little does he know what he's getting into.
Welcome to Ballybucklebo (if you can pronounce it you're one up on me), a small village in Northern Ireland in the mid 1960s. Full of all the quirky characters you would expect in a small Irish village. From the old Major and his wife who keep crying wolf to the young woman who finds herself in the family way all the odd-bodkin inhabitants are covered in this book.
It really was a little Irish vacation reading "An Irish Country Doctor". I felt I was there in the room as we got to know each person you came to the doctor's surgery for medical help or just a kind ear. The story really captured how a small town GP is more than just a doctor, he really cares for all parts of his patients life.
I can't wait to read the next in the series to find out what happens next in Ballybucklebo.
Welcome to Ballybucklebo (if you can pronounce it you're one up on me), a small village in Northern Ireland in the mid 1960s. Full of all the quirky characters you would expect in a small Irish village. From the old Major and his wife who keep crying wolf to the young woman who finds herself in the family way all the odd-bodkin inhabitants are covered in this book.
It really was a little Irish vacation reading "An Irish Country Doctor". I felt I was there in the room as we got to know each person you came to the doctor's surgery for medical help or just a kind ear. The story really captured how a small town GP is more than just a doctor, he really cares for all parts of his patients life.
I can't wait to read the next in the series to find out what happens next in Ballybucklebo.
I am enjoying this audiobook! The quirky characters are lovable and I love the descriptions of life in a small Irish village.
Dr. Barry Laverty, newly minted doctor, comes to the little Irish village of Ballybucklebo to do an internship in general practise with Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, a loud, opinionated, tempestuous medical man if there ever was one. Laverty isn't sure how he's going to deal with this doctor, who's sawn down the front legs of the patients' chair in his consulting room so folks won't overstay their welcome (they slide down the seat), but gradually he comes to see that there's more to O'Reilly than meets the eye at first. Plus, there's the excellent cooking of his housekeeper, Mrs. "Kinky" Kincaid. A collection of eccentric villagers parades through the pages of this book, from Maggie Macorkle and her ever-blooming hat (never mind the cats) to the blustering Councillor Bishop, a man riding for a fall--one that O'Reilly is pleased to witness.
Taylor's novel put me in mind of much of James Herriot's books, only with people instead of animals as the patients. One thing that always endeared Herriot's stories to me was the characterization of the people, the owners moreso than the pets. Here, you have the people without the pets (excepting Gertie, Jeannie Kennedy's pig, Arthur Guinness, O'Reilly's beer-drinking Labrador, and Lady Macbeth the cat). Taylor has that same way of writing characters.
He even manages to make Ballybucklebo a character in its own right. I'd happily move there if I could! This imagined village in Northern Ireland has all the charm you'd expect, and then some. I look forward to reading more.
Taylor's novel put me in mind of much of James Herriot's books, only with people instead of animals as the patients. One thing that always endeared Herriot's stories to me was the characterization of the people, the owners moreso than the pets. Here, you have the people without the pets (excepting Gertie, Jeannie Kennedy's pig, Arthur Guinness, O'Reilly's beer-drinking Labrador, and Lady Macbeth the cat). Taylor has that same way of writing characters.
He even manages to make Ballybucklebo a character in its own right. I'd happily move there if I could! This imagined village in Northern Ireland has all the charm you'd expect, and then some. I look forward to reading more.