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familywithbooks's review
5.0
Normally I am not a short-story or essay collection kind of reader. I can never get into a short story because right as I'm starting to like it, POOF it is over and done with. But when I read about Jane Green and Jen Lancaster contributing my ears perked up a bit. Beth Kendrick, Beth Harbison, Caprice Crane - have I died and gone to favorite author heaven?! Reading this made my heart swell and made me want to run out, buy a farm and adopt any and every dog I can find at the shelters. There were tears of course as not every "tail" could last forever, but after each essay I found myself hugging my own 2 rescue dogs a little tighter. I volunteer at a local no-kill rescue (where I found my second baby) and after reading this I signed up for more shifts to help out in any way I can.
Highly recommend to all chick lit fans and dog lovers. Just be prepared for a little bit of a mist in your eyes and a smile on your lips!
Highly recommend to all chick lit fans and dog lovers. Just be prepared for a little bit of a mist in your eyes and a smile on your lips!
kmatthes's review
4.0
I really liked this book. It's a collection of short stories about writers and their dogs. Some are definitely better than others, but they all succeeded in making me want to get a dog. Maybe sometime soon...
kellyhager's review
4.0
This is an anthology about the relationships between dogs and their people. There are a lot of great essays in here (as naturally there would be, when there are contributions by people like Jane Green, Sarah Pekkanen, W. Bruce Cameron and Jen Lancaster) and I would be hard-pressed to point to one and say, "That one wasn't good."
They were all sweet and most of them were funny. I'll also admit that almost every essay had at least one moment where I'd be like, "Yes. That's me."
The one that really made me laugh with recognition, though? Jen Lancaster's chapter. "Dogs are the New Children." Because it's exactly me. I treat Sam like a person* and he gets away with so much stuff because he's my kid. (note: unlike Jen, I didn't reach the conclusion that maybe I could have kids and it would turn out okay.)
This anthology is laugh-out-loud funny and also sweet. (As an added bonus, unlike Marley and Me, it didn't reduce me to a blubbering Kelly-sized mass of tears.)
Recommended.
* = which he is. A smart, sweet, awesome person.
They were all sweet and most of them were funny. I'll also admit that almost every essay had at least one moment where I'd be like, "Yes. That's me."
The one that really made me laugh with recognition, though? Jen Lancaster's chapter. "Dogs are the New Children." Because it's exactly me. I treat Sam like a person* and he gets away with so much stuff because he's my kid. (note: unlike Jen, I didn't reach the conclusion that maybe I could have kids and it would turn out okay.)
This anthology is laugh-out-loud funny and also sweet. (As an added bonus, unlike Marley and Me, it didn't reduce me to a blubbering Kelly-sized mass of tears.)
Recommended.
* = which he is. A smart, sweet, awesome person.
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