Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life

by Roald Dahl | Literature & Fiction |
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Registered by Pikkis of Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland on 12/26/2021
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Journal Entry 1 by Pikkis from Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland on Sunday, December 26, 2021
From the backcover: "The sweet scents of rural life infuse this beautifully crafted collection of Roald Dahl´s country stories, but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrowth...
Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ways and means of maggot farming; or describing the fine art of poaching pheasants using nothing but raisins and sleeping pills, Roald Dahl brings his stories of everyday country folk and their strange passions wonderfully to life. Lacing each tale with dollops of humour and adding a sprinkling of the sinister, Dahl ensures that this collection is brimful of the sweet mysteries of life."

Well, not the best of Dahl, I must say and I like his children´s books A LOT. I did like some of the stories quite a bit, but some stories I didn´t understand at all (may be something to do with the language though) and I think they were just odd. But maybe that´s because I´m not country folk... Anyway, this story-collection was a disappointment to me!

Journal Entry 2 by Pikkis at Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland on Friday, May 13, 2022

Released 1 yr ago (5/16/2022 UTC) at Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland

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I´m sending this book to someone who has her birthday in May. This book is not on her wishlist, but I thought she might like it. I hope she will! Anyway, Happy Birthday!

Journal Entry 3 by wingkirjakkowing at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Thanks! I"ve never heard of this book, but Roald Dahl usually tickles my fancy, so I am looking forward to reading this.

Journal Entry 4 by wingkirjakkowing at Sipoo, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Friday, May 27, 2022
Finished. Dahl does have a streak of macabre in him and Brits aren't such animal lovers they have the reputation of being. I'm so happy Finland has banned money prices in dog competitions, so we have never had this racing dog culture. I visited a Dublin vet a few years ago and he told that 20 000 whippets are abandoned each year in Ireland, because they have not been good enough racing dogs. 20 000! Nowadays dogs have microchips, so they can be identified and I would think they have doping tests like horses have, but back in those days Dahl writes about it was really cruel.

Released 1 yr ago (6/2/2022 UTC) at Chapel of Our Lady of the Incarnation in Carvoeiro (Lagoa), Faro Portugal

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A friend of mine travelled to Portugal and left this book on the window-sill of this chapel. Not the holiest of books, I'm afraid...

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