If Only They Could Talk

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As long as I can remember , I always wanted to be a vet till I was around 17 when I found out , I wasn't doing too well with seeing the insides of animals. In ‘ If Only They Could Talk’, the first book in a series of his semi-autobiographies, the reader gets acquainted with a young James Herriot, just out of veterinary college, taking up a rural practice in the town of Thirsk, Yorkshire during late 1930s.

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Tristan, as usual, was in charge of feeding the animals, but today he was distracted by the hens for some minutes, and the pigs escaped. James Herriot affronts his first job as assistant in Yorkshire Dales without Siegfried watching him. James quickly learnt that dealing with animals was sometimes easier than dealing with people, especially farming people who were used to doing things their own way. Thank you to the owner of the “ Edge of the Dales” and “ Uncle Herriot” blogs for your comments and suggestions for improvement!Wight was just as interested in their owners as he was in his patients, and his writing is, at root, an amiable but keen comment on the human condition. Skarbo lopkopju visgudrība un lielā mīlestība pret saviem četrkājainajiem draugiem bieži vien izrādās traucējoša un kurioza. From the author whose books inspired the BBC series "All Creatures Great and Small", this first volume of unforgettable memoirs chronicles James Herriot's first years as a country vet, with the signature storytelling magic that has made him a favourite the world over. He was blaming doctors for not teaching how to look for instruments in the darkness and in small places with a lot of dust.

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In this book at least, there's really nothing heavy, it's all just entertaining, fun, and light, but very well written. If Only They Could Talk comprises the first 31 chapters of “All Creatures Great and Small”, issued later, and which I shall review separately. He is worried about the horse size because some of his friends have had terrible experiences with these animals at receiving kick on the testicles. One of the more subtle differences, which didn’t really fit into the table, is in the nuances of character of some of the main protagonists.Siegfried Farnon accepts James Herriot as his assistance, he talk with him about the importance of medicines and dozes of each one. He is also a sharp observer of the people, animals and their association in an agrarian society as these stories offer a delightful insight born out of his observations into the country life of Yorkshire. In the very first chapter we initially meet Herriot while he is performing a calving right in the middle of a winter night, drenched in sweat, blood, snow and mud, and wondering about the situation he is in when compared to the squeaky clean picture of a veterinary surgeon performing a calving that was provided in his obstetrics book while training. God this book made me laugh hard, sob, it made me put it down and take some time away, it was really hard to read in places but a great read, a great insight to being a vet in the countryside. Because the previous book I read ('The Choice') was a bit on the heavy side emotional wise, I wanted a lighter read and found this first book in this series (6 books or even more followed) among my nature books on my bookshelves.