#gerald durrel

[gloria-ma]

“La mia famiglia e altri animali” – un’infanzia nella natura

Era sempre più chiaro che, lo volessimo o no, avremmo baciato i piedi di Santo Spiridione. Mi girai e vidi mamma che faceva sforzi frenetici per raggiungermi […] Alla fine, disperata, mandò a farsi benedire la prudenza e al di sopra di quella marea di teste mi sibilò: «Di’ a Margo… che non baci… baciate l’aria… baciate l’aria.»La mia famiglia e altri animali, Gerald Durrell Alcuni libri, alcune…

[guy60660]

Gerald Durrell

[smashorpassgilf]

Gerald Durrell?

[domquixotedospobresblog]

By Gerald Durrel

"Um minuto por cada reencarnação,momentos com quem a gente ama de verdade nunca serão insignificantes."

Jonas r Cezar

[markscherz]

Have you read any of Gerald Durrell's books? If so, which was your favorite? I particularly love Birds, Beasts, and Other Relatives.

I think I have read almost all of them! I absolutely adored the Durrell books as a kid. I started trying to read them too young, and started with A Zoo in My Luggage, which was a bad place to start. My Family and Other Animals is probably the best place for anyone to start with them, though I personally prefer the more collection-focused books. Unfortunately, a lot of the books haven't aged particularly well in terms of sensibilities. I think some of my favourites were The Bafut Beagles, Beasts in my Belfry, The Whispering Land, and The Drunken Forest, but I haven't re-read them in years, and I am not sure how I would rank them now.

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[samsdei]

Milo Parker

[godzilla-reads]

Godzilla’s Top 10 Authors

#9- Gerald Durrell

Reason: Surprise, surprise, high school was ALSO not the best of times, but the worst of times. My favorite teacher- biology- borrowed me a book called “My Family and Other Animals” which I did not read because I was angsty. Then a year later, after even worse times of post-high school panic, I reached out to my teacher and she told me the book again. I read it, but absorbing it feels like it makes more sense. I loved it and promptly tried to get my hands on everything he wrote, singing my teacher’s praises!

Works: My Family and Other Animals; Birds, Beasts and Relatives; The Garden of the Gods; A Zoo in my Luggage; and more.

[blood-orange-juice]

ERENVILLE AND ANIMALS

ASDFGH

[earhartsease]

rereading this children's book from the 60s by the naturalist Gerald Durrell, and (briefly) the plot is two english kids trying to to help a greek boy who's being threatened by the mayor who lent money to the boy's dad - anyway the thing is the blonde girl Amanda is no english rose - like her first two suggestions are "let's burn his house down" and "let's kidnap his wife"

fuck em up Amanda, we love this of old children's books that don't do demure

[nico-di-angelfish]

i just finished reading the world according to garp and oh my god. what a book! so now i immediately have to read everything else john irving has ever written

[mysticallamasong]

"My Family and Other Animals" - Gerald Durrell

[lesbienneanarchiste]

"Whereas their husbands were enormous blundering tanks of animals, the wives were slim, sinuous, and sexy, with their neat pointed faces and deep melting eyes. They were the personification of femininity, graceful to a degree, beautiful, coquettish, and at the same time, loving. They were heavenly creatures and I decided that, should I have the chance of being an animal in this world, I would choose to be a fur seal, so that I might enjoy having such a wonderful wife."

- Gerald Durrell, discovering his fursona by virtue of an anthropomorphic crush on some seals on a beach

[bisexualmultifandommess]

I’ve been watching The Durrells the show based on Gerald Durrells life in Corfu that he wrote about and I love it!!

I love how despite how much the siblings all argue and make fun of each other it’s clear how much they love each other

[szappan]

i am rereading some gerald durrell books and realising that there were so many things i missed. for one i didn't have a concept of what england was twelve years ago to me it was a made up place and it really added to it

[sleepysera]

"'Really, this is a frightful country,' he said, turning on us belligerently, as though we were all directly responsible for the climatic conditions prevailing. 'You set foot on shore at Dover and you're met by a positive barrage of cold germs ... D'you realize that this is the first cold I've had in twelve years? Simply because I had the sense to keep away from Pudding Island. Everyone I've met so far has a cold. The entire population of the British Isles seems to do absolutely nothing from one year's end to another except shuffle round in small circles sneezing voluptuously into each other's faces ... a sort of merry-go-round of reinfection. What chance of survival has one got?'"

-Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969)