A review by guojing
Beasts in My Belfry by Gerald Durrell
4.0
Not as good as my first of his books, A Zoo in My Luggage, but it was still an always delightful read filled with funny anecdotes and details about the raising of animals, like giraffes (don't stand behind one), tigers (I pictured a cat playing with a mouse before eating it as he described the tiger's play), polar bears. The tales weren't quite as funny nor the scene quite as set as in the earlier work; one does get the impression that this is a work by a good author, written at a time other than his prime.
If anything else, it certainly did not dissuade me from intending to pick up yet another of his books before too long. Perhaps the inaugural work of the Corfu Trilogy would make for a good intermediary piece before returning back to his later stories of his zoo days.
If anything else, it certainly did not dissuade me from intending to pick up yet another of his books before too long. Perhaps the inaugural work of the Corfu Trilogy would make for a good intermediary piece before returning back to his later stories of his zoo days.