[LMB] (chat) Durrell -- the good one...

[Paula Lieberman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Nicoll" <jdnicoll at panix.com>


> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Lois McMaster Bujold wrote:
>
>> Ah ha --
>>
>>    I just found Masterpiece Theater/WGBH had done a dramatization of
>> naturalist Gerald Durrell's little classic _My Family And Other
>> Animals_, a memoir of his pre-WWII sojourn on Crete in his early teens.

Gerald Durrell seems to have had his particular noxious personality habits, 
though.

[Many years ago, when the marriage was still intact, I remember reading 
Beasts in My Bed by his then-wife.  Apparently he wasn't good longterm 
husband material, though....  none of that was in his then-wife's book, 
though]

>>  A favorite book of my youth -- it's survived I don't know how many
>> moves.  The adaptation, obtained (as usual) via Netflix, was
>> delightful.  Recommended.
>>
>>    The sunshine looked darned fine, too, sigh.  Now I shall have to dig
>> out the book and read it again.
>>
> Is this the part where I plug the biography?