Reviews for Etude Mineralogique Et Petrographique De Roches Basiques Et Ultrabasiques Du Complexe Ophiolitique Du Nord Oman: Relations Avec Les Chromitites, Comparaison Avec Deux Complexes D'A

The average rating for Etude Mineralogique Et Petrographique De Roches Basiques Et Ultrabasiques Du Complexe Ophiolitique Du Nord Oman: Relations Avec Les Chromitites, Comparaison Avec Deux Complexes D'A based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-07 00:00:00 Greg Eller It's easy for me to be flippant about the Chalet School and, to be frank, it is a mode I adopt quite often when discussing this bizarre, brilliant and all too frustrating series. But it is not easy for me to be flippant about The Chalet School at War; a book full of ache and of pain and so, I shall not. I didn't think I felt like this about The Chalet School at War. I remembered it being slightly leaden, a piece of filler coming after the great The Chalet School in Exile, mostly considering of Welsh people being very Welsh, Gwensi being boring and only enlivened by the great friendship split between two key middles. That was, alas, about it, and so when I came back to it, I don't know what I expected. I do know that I did not expect this, this book that as ever with Brent-Dyer when she was at her fiery best, this book that is about one thing and yet wholly about another. Originally published in 1941 and titled 'The Chalet School Goes To It', The Chalet School at War is a book about love. It is a strange thing to apply, this sentiment to a series which resolutely stayed away from pashes and the like, but it is a sentiment I apply most wholeheartedly. This book is about love. This book is about family and ties and people being split from their homes and realising that none of that matters if they are together. This book is about women, banding together in the darkness and being brave and hopeful and furious against this war of men's making. This book is about England and her 'mettle being tested' in these dark, dark times and it is a message to the readers that says - you will live through this. You will survive. You will endure. And this book is about marriage and happily ever afters; some given with near-tangible authorial grief to characters who are 'too dear and sweet to spend their lives teaching'. This book is about pain. My God, it is so very much about pain. The war is on, there are girls still inside Nazi Germany (not all Germans, Brent-Dyer reminds us, are Nazis, and again this fine distinction in this wild and so often ridiculous series makes me gasp at how good she could be). There are girls forced to live a life that they have not chosen with people that they have not chosen. There are women trying to do the best for the children in their care and there are these children who are growing up in these tumultous times and clinging to simple things. Hope. Honesty. Respect. Everything embodied in that painful, jagged little league of hope that's called 'The Chalet School Peace League' And all of that is delivered in this school story about vegetables and about inter-form arguments and babies and I didn't see it coming. Quite often, with Brent-Dyer, when she is this good, I don't see it coming and it's only when I finish and close the book that I realise what's just happened. It's only then that I remember just how outstanding an author she could be.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-03-19 00:00:00 Edward Lewis Unfortunately, I couldn't get my hands on a copy of Chalet School in Exile, the book between this and The New Chalet School. Rather a lot obviously happens in Exile - Jo, rather than being single and living with Madge, is now married and has triplets. Yes. Triplets. And she had a run-in with the Gestapo (as you do). The school has also moved from Austria to the Channel Islands. In At War, the Islands are threatened by the war, and the school moves to Wales. It's interesting, the changes brought about by the way - there are lessons in gardening now, with the girls learning to grow vegetables efficiently. There is trouble when the local Colonel complains about torchlight being seen on the school grounds after blackout, and the school experiences an air raid (in which a message is dropped from two old girls stuck in Germany, rather a ridiculous coincidence). One of the old girls gets married at the end, and there is rather a sweet fuss about making her dress, given the short notice she had, and the whole school gets to go to the wedding, as usual. I liked Jo more in this book - she is more involved in her own life than that of the school, particularly because she has more in common with the mistresses now than the students. And I liked her little family - the Robin and Daisy live with her - and her dear friendships with her foursome of old school friends.