Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book

by Bill Richardson

Paperback, 1998

Call number

FIC RIC

Publication

St. Martin's Griffin (1998), Edition: annotated edition, 208 pages

Description

A pair of endearingly eccentric bachelors--in their fifties, and fraternal twins--own and operate a bed & breakfast establishment where people like them, the "gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused," can feel at home. Hector and Virgil think of their B&B as a refuge, a retreat, a haven, where folks may bring their own books or peruse the brothers' own substantial library. An antic blend of homespun and intellectual humor,Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast is a place readers will want to return to again and again. Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast, originally published by Douglas & McIntyre, won Canada's prestigious Stephen Lecock Award for Humour in 1994, and was published in hardcover by A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press in 1996. Its sequel, Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book, is a Canadian bestseller, and will be published in hardcover by A Wyatt Book in October 1997.… (more)

Subjects

Bachelors Fiction

Bed and breakfast accommodations Fiction

Books and reading Fiction

Brothers FIction

Canada fiction

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Eccentrics and eccentricities Fiction

Humorous stories

Twins Fiction

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User reviews

LibraryThing member tjsjohanna

While this was enjoyable and even literary (these characters all seem to be big readers with wide ranging interests) there was one big problem for me. This book was supposedly written from various characters points of view. But I couldn't tell the characters apart by their "voice". It all sounded

like the same "voice" to me. It would have been better if this had just been written from a narrator's point of view. Quirky story, which was fun.

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LibraryThing member BookAngel_a

I really enjoyed how this book picked up right after the other one left off. It was either as good or better than the first one. There were a few events that were hard to believe, but it was a nice, cozy visit with our 'old friends' from the first book. All the old characters are there, with one or

two new ones. It surprised me with a few plot twists as well. And I found two more books to read from their book recommendations!

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LibraryThing member NeedMoreShelves

Another delightful sojourn with the Bachelor Brothers - while this book does have more of an overall narrative arc, I would still recommend reading the original BBB&B first to get the best feel for the characters. Smart, literary, and wonderful.

LibraryThing member SeriousGrace

Hector and Virgil are back! Their charming bed and breakfast is still a safe haven for bibliophiles, although this time there are not as many "bookish" moments. There is a list of must-read cookbooks, books for a baby's first five years (I loved seeing Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, Where

the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, and When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne on the list), and another list of books specific for bathroom reading. The focus of book number two (pun intended) is the discovery of local controversial poet Solomon Solomon's manuscript in the B&B safe. The town decides to celebrate his works with a festival involving a poetry contest, food, and a ball of foil.
Cutest moment in the book? When asked by their schoolteacher each twin said he wanted to be a bachelor when he grew up. Neither had no idea what that meant. My one complaint? The brothers do not narrate as much of the sequel as they did in Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast.
As an aside, Nancy Pearl has a chapter in one of her Lust books about characters you would like to meet. I would like to meet mother. She practiced chemistry, built model planes, played football, studied anatomy, collected road kill, and raised twins all on her own. She sounds like a hell raiser. Natalie Merchant has a song called "Sister Tilly" and I could see mother as a Miss Tilly as someone who would "stand at the barricades; a girl in the fray."

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