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Good Dog. Stay.
"The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed."
So writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen about her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau. With her trademark wisdom and humor, Quindlen reflects on how her life has unfolded in tandem with Beau's, and on the lessons she's learned by watching him: to roll with the punches, to take things as they come, to measure herself not in terms of the past or the future but of the present, to raise her nose in the air from time to time and, at least metaphorically, holler, "I smell bacon!"
Of the dog that once possessed a catcher's mitt of a mouth, Quindlen reminisces, "There came a time when a scrap thrown in his direction usually bounced unseen off his head. Yet put a pork roast in the oven, and the guy still breathed as audibly as an obscene caller. The eyes and ears may have gone, but the nose was eternal. And the tail. The tail still wagged, albeit at half-staff. When it stops, I thought more than once, then we'll know."
Heartening and bittersweet, Good Dog. Stay. honors the life of a cherished and loyal friend and offers us a valuable lesson on our four-legged family members: Sometimes an old dog can teach us new tricks.
So writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen about her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau. With her trademark wisdom and humor, Quindlen reflects on how her life has unfolded in tandem with Beau's, and on the lessons she's learned by watching him: to roll with the punches, to take things as they come, to measure herself not in terms of the past or the future but of the present, to raise her nose in the air from time to time and, at least metaphorically, holler, "I smell bacon!"
Of the dog that once possessed a catcher's mitt of a mouth, Quindlen reminisces, "There came a time when a scrap thrown in his direction usually bounced unseen off his head. Yet put a pork roast in the oven, and the guy still breathed as audibly as an obscene caller. The eyes and ears may have gone, but the nose was eternal. And the tail. The tail still wagged, albeit at half-staff. When it stops, I thought more than once, then we'll know."
Heartening and bittersweet, Good Dog. Stay. honors the life of a cherished and loyal friend and offers us a valuable lesson on our four-legged family members: Sometimes an old dog can teach us new tricks.
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Anna Quindlen
87 books4,664 followersAnna Marie Quindlen is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.
Her New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times. Her semi-autobiographical novel One True Thing (1994) served as the basis for the 1998 film starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger.
Her New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several posts at The New York Times. Her semi-autobiographical novel One True Thing (1994) served as the basis for the 1998 film starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger.
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February 6, 2017
I wish this was longer. Just as I was settling in to listen to a great Quindlen piece, not wanting to listen to what's on the news or read my other two books, it was over. (It's less than 45 minutes on audio.) A sad and moving eulogy of sorts, following the euthanasia of her beloved lab, Beau. I'm a cat person but I know too well the same emotions expressed here. So beautifully described by Anna Q.
February 26, 2017
“In a world that seems so uncertain, in lives that seem sometimes to ricochet from challenge to upheaval and back again, a dog can be counted on in a way that’s true of little else.”
I have read the author’s works before but this bittersweet memoir about her dog, Beau, gave me a renewed appreciation of her writing. It is less than 100 pages, many of which are filled with full length dog photos, but a profound read. It resonated so much with me and my own dogs that it was very personal, and a reminder why I will always be a dog owner if I can help it. A year ago I was desperate to find a comforting book that would get me through the difficult last days with our beloved dog, Sunny. Anyone who has lived through the painstaking experience of figuring out when “it’s time” can relate. While nothing can bring my dog back reading this made me smile and made me think of the lasting impact he made in our lives. If you are on the fence bout reading this I highly recommend it. It’s beautiful and thoughtful and will touch the heart of any dog owner. Just like a dog’s life, you know it will be short lived but the journey couldn’t be sweeter or more fulfilling. We just wish they could stay.
I have read the author’s works before but this bittersweet memoir about her dog, Beau, gave me a renewed appreciation of her writing. It is less than 100 pages, many of which are filled with full length dog photos, but a profound read. It resonated so much with me and my own dogs that it was very personal, and a reminder why I will always be a dog owner if I can help it. A year ago I was desperate to find a comforting book that would get me through the difficult last days with our beloved dog, Sunny. Anyone who has lived through the painstaking experience of figuring out when “it’s time” can relate. While nothing can bring my dog back reading this made me smile and made me think of the lasting impact he made in our lives. If you are on the fence bout reading this I highly recommend it. It’s beautiful and thoughtful and will touch the heart of any dog owner. Just like a dog’s life, you know it will be short lived but the journey couldn’t be sweeter or more fulfilling. We just wish they could stay.
July 23, 2011
I acquired "Good Dog. Stay" at a book swap. I am a big time pet lover and I have two dogs (as well as three cats) myself. I was attracted by the pictue of the adorable lab on the cover and looked forward to reading the author's memoirs of her beloved dog. However, I got through the book in one very short sitting (about 45 minutes, if that), and closed the book thinking, "What was the point of that?" Easily one-third of the books pages are random pictures of dogs, and while they are certainly cute dogs, they had nothing to do at all with Beau, the supposed star of the story. Additionally, there really isn't much about Beau. Descriptions of him at various points in his life; a few charming anecdotes; a recollection of his last days on earth. But that's about it. Most of the time it felt like the author was just rambling aimlessly to fill up some pages. I didn't really feel much emotion coming through the narrative, especially on such a tender subject as pet love. All in all, this book was tolerable but I am really glad I didn't pay $15 for it.
September 10, 2014
Just a little book I had around the house. It's 82 pages, at least half of them pictures, so I just sat down and read it--the life and death of a beloved dog. I've never read anything by Anna Quindlen before. The lady can write: astute observations, laugh-out-loud, tears-in-the-eyes.
I think I must have gotten it for my mother. In her final years I obtained all her books. She read Anna Quindlen, but this one looked like it had never been read.
...and now let the bombardment by ads for dog books begin!
I think I must have gotten it for my mother. In her final years I obtained all her books. She read Anna Quindlen, but this one looked like it had never been read.
...and now let the bombardment by ads for dog books begin!
April 29, 2012
This book was a fast read. Ninety-five pages and at least each page has a picture of a dog.
It took about an hour to read it and about an hour and a half to cry over it. The crying started on page eight and then gradually worsened by the end of the book, which took me 30 minutes before I could control the gasping.
It is a very sweet book about Anna Quindlen's family dog and how much, in his life until his death, her life was affected by him. It is so poignant: reviewing someone else's life in 'dog' years -- a span of about 14 years.
Her description of Beau aging brought memories of my own beloved dogs, Sugar, Zimba and Soc, all of whom lived beyond the average dog years and all three were with us from puppyhood to their crippling ages. And as Quindlen writes, it was difficult for me and Tim to see our puppies "be" old. And like Beau, we chose to put each one down, probably beyond the time they should have been.
Everything Quindlan wrote about, regarding the aging and the death of Beau, was almost exactly how I felt and the emotions just filled me. I remembered holding Zimba after her last breath; caressing Sugar as she left us, and crying uncontrollably. With Soc, well, I missed the opportunity to be with her in her last moments but I knew she couldn't have asked for anything more special than spending her last moments with Tim, the one she adored the most in our little abode.
Quindlan speaks of the pain of choosing the last day for Beau and we went through the same painful choice with Sugar. How do you put a date on the death of your pet? Two days and counting! Well, that just isn't right.
But neither is allowing your dog to suffer pain. I don't care what some folks say: your dog will let you know when they're ready. Ours did not. And if they did, we didn't understand or were too selfish to see it. Every time we looked at them, during those last few weeks, we still had wagging of tails and longing to be touched by us and yes, they still ate and drank.
And beyond the memories of her dog, Anna Quindlen reflects on the life she and her family had going on, alongside Beau's... This book is heartache, heartbreak, and full of love and the ultimate ode she could provide to a wonderful, lifelong friend, Beau.
It took about an hour to read it and about an hour and a half to cry over it. The crying started on page eight and then gradually worsened by the end of the book, which took me 30 minutes before I could control the gasping.
It is a very sweet book about Anna Quindlen's family dog and how much, in his life until his death, her life was affected by him. It is so poignant: reviewing someone else's life in 'dog' years -- a span of about 14 years.
Her description of Beau aging brought memories of my own beloved dogs, Sugar, Zimba and Soc, all of whom lived beyond the average dog years and all three were with us from puppyhood to their crippling ages. And as Quindlen writes, it was difficult for me and Tim to see our puppies "be" old. And like Beau, we chose to put each one down, probably beyond the time they should have been.
Everything Quindlan wrote about, regarding the aging and the death of Beau, was almost exactly how I felt and the emotions just filled me. I remembered holding Zimba after her last breath; caressing Sugar as she left us, and crying uncontrollably. With Soc, well, I missed the opportunity to be with her in her last moments but I knew she couldn't have asked for anything more special than spending her last moments with Tim, the one she adored the most in our little abode.
Quindlan speaks of the pain of choosing the last day for Beau and we went through the same painful choice with Sugar. How do you put a date on the death of your pet? Two days and counting! Well, that just isn't right.
But neither is allowing your dog to suffer pain. I don't care what some folks say: your dog will let you know when they're ready. Ours did not. And if they did, we didn't understand or were too selfish to see it. Every time we looked at them, during those last few weeks, we still had wagging of tails and longing to be touched by us and yes, they still ate and drank.
And beyond the memories of her dog, Anna Quindlen reflects on the life she and her family had going on, alongside Beau's... This book is heartache, heartbreak, and full of love and the ultimate ode she could provide to a wonderful, lifelong friend, Beau.
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February 27, 2017
I read this years ago, and just have a memory of loving it! I think there were many zingers that pierced your heart, as well as some rich laugh out loud moments. We don't even have a dog, but I've given this to many friends and family members over the years, and they've all agreed with my assessment!
December 20, 2007
first of all, you must know ahead of time that this is really an illustrated essay padded to become a commercial book.It is extremely short. That said, it is still wonderful even though I know that if her name was not a proven financial success this book would never exist. It would have instead been a page in a magazine.
Quindlen manages to write a love story about a dog without being maudlin. she connects her dog's life with the life markers of her family. His puppy hood and her children's childhood evolves into his old age and her children's independent lives. The eventual ending is done with such a light hand and such love that you smile with tears in your eyes.
Quindlen manages to write a love story about a dog without being maudlin. she connects her dog's life with the life markers of her family. His puppy hood and her children's childhood evolves into his old age and her children's independent lives. The eventual ending is done with such a light hand and such love that you smile with tears in your eyes.
January 5, 2008
I picked this up at the library and read it in about 45 minutes. Most of that time was spent looking at the pictures. It is a slight book, really more like a magazine article, depicting the author's life with her dogs and in particular one dog named Beau. While I'm a sucker for any book about a dog, I was disappointed in this one. I felt like it was just an excuse to publish a book by a well-known author and have a really adorable dog on the cover hoping that people like me would buy it. I really wouldn't recommend the book, maybe look it over at the library or when your in a bookstore.
March 1, 2022
the only thing that would have made it better is being longer, but i loved this book! it was so sweet and at times painfully sad but was such a beautiful reminder that for our dogs we are their whole life and world. this book came to me at a great time, as i needed something to make me take a step back and gain some wider perspective and this did just that. when things feel overwhelming the solution is truly to funnel our love to anyone (or any animal) that is around to receive, gave my dog lots of extra love after finishing the last page
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March 14, 2024This goes in the “short book, but made me sob” category.
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April 28, 2021Basic in that NYT-columnist way, but also I don’t expect to be any different if my dog ever dies. Which she won’t.
June 4, 2010
Read this in probably an hour or less total. It's a very sweet short story of life with the author's dog.
There are only 2 things that bothered me: one, the book is filled with pictures, which is great, but they are random pictures of random dogs. I would have liked it better had it been filled with pictures of Beau (the dog the story is about). And two, the author says she's never one of those people who treated her dog like a child or referred to herself as "mommy" to her dog..... yet she chose to write a book about the life of the dog and how it moved her? Hm. Denial, maybe? :)
There are only 2 things that bothered me: one, the book is filled with pictures, which is great, but they are random pictures of random dogs. I would have liked it better had it been filled with pictures of Beau (the dog the story is about). And two, the author says she's never one of those people who treated her dog like a child or referred to herself as "mommy" to her dog..... yet she chose to write a book about the life of the dog and how it moved her? Hm. Denial, maybe? :)
April 20, 2022
An annual ritual for me is to read this book near the date of my previous dog’s passing.
Anna Quindlen captures the end in a sobering and extremely powerful way. The tail wags occur less frequently, but they still are attempted. The reaction times going or maybe even gone. Every aspect of the dog’s life seems to be converging to the point we all fear. Yet, as Quindlen’s writing shows, our dogs live such a short life with pride and grace that probably none of us humans could ever do ourselves.
Required reading for any dog owner.
Anna Quindlen captures the end in a sobering and extremely powerful way. The tail wags occur less frequently, but they still are attempted. The reaction times going or maybe even gone. Every aspect of the dog’s life seems to be converging to the point we all fear. Yet, as Quindlen’s writing shows, our dogs live such a short life with pride and grace that probably none of us humans could ever do ourselves.
Required reading for any dog owner.
September 8, 2021
“I’m not what I once was, and neither, by the end, was he.”
Grab your tissues and prepare your heart if you are gonna try this book. No “ifs”. Please read it.
In the little memoir Anna Quindlen talks about the end life of her adorable black Labrador, Beau. In between reminiscences of healthier and younger times she talks about the experience of seeing your best friend losing his strength as disease and old age creeps upon him.
For anyone that had to accompany a beloved pet on his journey through old age and then death, this book is simply gonna pull on your heartstrings and make you wonder why you woke up today with the desire to suffer.
A mandatory read for all pet owners.
Grab your tissues and prepare your heart if you are gonna try this book. No “ifs”. Please read it.
In the little memoir Anna Quindlen talks about the end life of her adorable black Labrador, Beau. In between reminiscences of healthier and younger times she talks about the experience of seeing your best friend losing his strength as disease and old age creeps upon him.
For anyone that had to accompany a beloved pet on his journey through old age and then death, this book is simply gonna pull on your heartstrings and make you wonder why you woke up today with the desire to suffer.
A mandatory read for all pet owners.
December 25, 2018
Brief, personal, and poignant. Quindlen narrates her own audiobook here, and at a key moment or two it sounds as if she is struggling to keep her voice level and even because of the emotion behind her memory of her dog, who was a very good boy. Just about anybody that has had a dog will enjoy this warm, resonant memoir. It's more of an essay length; the audiobook took less than 45 minutes to listen to. Recommended to dog lovers, though if you are grieving a pet recently lost, you should decide whether this will help, or whether your loss is still too raw.
A lovely read.
A lovely read.
March 12, 2017
Very sweet, but short, memorial to her late dog Beau. As always, I love her writing and could put myself in her place because I, we, have traveled the same path with our beloved dogs. Got a little teary, but not too bad. A short story, but just long enough to not get too maudlin.
December 30, 2017
I think I am not a dog person, there are few dog books that I like (The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein and A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron are two amazing ones). A dog's purpose actually got me very emotional when getting the reader into a dog's mind in an outstanding way.
This one is really really short, and it has a few great anecdotes. But it is not a great book in any way. It is very heartwarming and very touching. In a world that seems so uncertain, in lives that seem sometimes to ricochet from challenge to upheaval and back again, a dog can be counted on in a way that’s true of little else.
And there's the terrible part of the death of a dog, as humane as people try to make it:
There’s one other mystery in the lives of people that is not much of a mystery in the life of a dog. That’s the question of how long he’s going to be with you .
Beau died two weeks shy of his fifteenth birthday. The five of us knew three days in advance exactly when he would go, which seemed terribly wrong. There are some things that I’ve never really understood scheduling: a cesarean section, a date night with your husband. But I never felt as bad as I did scheduling the last moments of Beau’s life, placing the call to the vet and the crematorium so that both could be ready at nine A.M. on a Monday morning.
And it clicked for me with Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande: Then one day we suddenly realized that we had been keeping him alive not because it was good for him, but because it was good for us, because it was too hard to make the decision to let him go.
Anna Quinlann is a great writer. If you are a dog person, you might connect well with this book. 3 stars for me.
This one is really really short, and it has a few great anecdotes. But it is not a great book in any way. It is very heartwarming and very touching. In a world that seems so uncertain, in lives that seem sometimes to ricochet from challenge to upheaval and back again, a dog can be counted on in a way that’s true of little else.
And there's the terrible part of the death of a dog, as humane as people try to make it:
There’s one other mystery in the lives of people that is not much of a mystery in the life of a dog. That’s the question of how long he’s going to be with you .
Beau died two weeks shy of his fifteenth birthday. The five of us knew three days in advance exactly when he would go, which seemed terribly wrong. There are some things that I’ve never really understood scheduling: a cesarean section, a date night with your husband. But I never felt as bad as I did scheduling the last moments of Beau’s life, placing the call to the vet and the crematorium so that both could be ready at nine A.M. on a Monday morning.
And it clicked for me with Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande: Then one day we suddenly realized that we had been keeping him alive not because it was good for him, but because it was good for us, because it was too hard to make the decision to let him go.
Anna Quinlann is a great writer. If you are a dog person, you might connect well with this book. 3 stars for me.
January 16, 2008
For anyone who is a dog lover, this book is significantly moving. I loved it! It's short (a scant 82 pages), half of which are pictures; yet it speaks to the heart. Anna Quindlen, an accomplished writer, shares her personal love of her life with Beau, her Labrador retriever. Beautifully written, Quindlen is right on target with the lessons we learn from our family pets.
February 7, 2008
All you children of mine out there laughing because your mom read another dog book---Anna Quindlen is a wonderful writer. I read it in 1/2 hour. It should have been an essay, but she writes so poignantly about her dog and her children,too. It's about philosophy, a life well-lived, seize the moment, you only live once kind of philosophy. And she learned that from her dog!!
November 13, 2023
I'm not normally the type of person that cries while reading. There have been obvious exceptions to this, given that some material is impossible to read without feeling overwhelmed. This book? At this moment in time? Is one of those exceptions.
After a long, fearless fight with illness and injury, my husband and I recently put down our dog of over 15 years. And in an effort to try and grapple with the many complex emotions I felt as a result of this impossibly large void in my life, I sought out music and literature that might help me cope. This was a recommended title and now, having read it, I can see why.
It's very short. Even shorter than it seems, given that half of the pages are filled with pictures of dogs (with some of Quindlen's own dogs finding their way into the mix). But that's part of its charm. Quindlen offers a reflection on something entirely universal, while also honing in on what made the experience specific to her and her family.
By the end of it, I was fully sobbing. And not just in a "this hurts more than I can express" kind of way, but as a form of catharsis. Because as much as I know this is something so many others have reckoned with, there's something about reading it on the page, in vivid detail, that helps clarify that.
This was simultaneously triggering and therapeutic for me. If you've ever had to make the decision to put down a beloved pet, you may feel the same way about it.
After a long, fearless fight with illness and injury, my husband and I recently put down our dog of over 15 years. And in an effort to try and grapple with the many complex emotions I felt as a result of this impossibly large void in my life, I sought out music and literature that might help me cope. This was a recommended title and now, having read it, I can see why.
It's very short. Even shorter than it seems, given that half of the pages are filled with pictures of dogs (with some of Quindlen's own dogs finding their way into the mix). But that's part of its charm. Quindlen offers a reflection on something entirely universal, while also honing in on what made the experience specific to her and her family.
By the end of it, I was fully sobbing. And not just in a "this hurts more than I can express" kind of way, but as a form of catharsis. Because as much as I know this is something so many others have reckoned with, there's something about reading it on the page, in vivid detail, that helps clarify that.
This was simultaneously triggering and therapeutic for me. If you've ever had to make the decision to put down a beloved pet, you may feel the same way about it.
April 7, 2017
A short, sweet, love-filled memoir about the author's dog, Beau. Quindlen's beloved Labrador Retriever's death sends the author into a reflective frame of mind contemplating the relationship between dog and human. She doesn't anthropomorphize Beau, doesn't regard him as any more or less than the family's beloved, quirky, loyal, and ever-present pet. One of the questions that Quindlen ruminates about is one that many pet owners must deal with: Why do we keep our aging, aching, declining, dying pets alive? Is it because we believe it is good for the pet or is it good for us? The answer: "Then one day we suddenly realized that we had been keeping him alive not because it was good for him, but because it was good for us, because it was too hard to make the decision to let him go. And in the joyful bargain between dog and person, that is the one unforgivable cheat." (page 75)
October 30, 2021
I read it aloud in one sitting to my wife, who is recuperating from surgery. I liked it a lot. It says all the obvious things, but it says them well; at times poetically. Of course it helps that the dog who is the main subject of the book, Beau, is a black Labrador retriever, and our current dog, Spot, is a black Lab, and her predecessors Rosa and Janou were also black Labs. That probably made us feel somehow closer to Beau.
Why only 3 stars? Well, because this book is excellent for what it is, but what it is is not the kind of book that I could ever put beside some of my 5-star books, like, frinstance, Maus, Moby Dick, The Collected Works of Shirley Jackson, Pale Fire. It just doesn't have that kind of heft. But to Quindlen's credit, it does not pretend to. It's a simple, well written memoir of one dog and what that dog meant to one person & her family.
Why only 3 stars? Well, because this book is excellent for what it is, but what it is is not the kind of book that I could ever put beside some of my 5-star books, like, frinstance, Maus, Moby Dick, The Collected Works of Shirley Jackson, Pale Fire. It just doesn't have that kind of heft. But to Quindlen's credit, it does not pretend to. It's a simple, well written memoir of one dog and what that dog meant to one person & her family.
April 7, 2017
After reading the dust jacket I knew this would likely make me cry some, especially just having lost my baby girl less than a month ago. I also knew Quindlen's short book would be funny, bittersweet and honest, and I wasn't disappointed at all.
But, I wasn't prepared for the sobbing I ended up doing, so make sure you have plenty of Kleenex on hand! I won't spoil by telling about the part that "got me," but I'm sure you can make an assumption.
I think this is a great book for any pet lover, not only those who love dogs, because she gets to the heart of the connection we feel with our pets, what they mean to us and do for us and see us through. If you're recently bereaved (or know that you are soon to be), Good Dog. Stay. may help you through the process.
Beautiful, short as it is.
But, I wasn't prepared for the sobbing I ended up doing, so make sure you have plenty of Kleenex on hand! I won't spoil by telling about the part that "got me," but I'm sure you can make an assumption.
I think this is a great book for any pet lover, not only those who love dogs, because she gets to the heart of the connection we feel with our pets, what they mean to us and do for us and see us through. If you're recently bereaved (or know that you are soon to be), Good Dog. Stay. may help you through the process.
Beautiful, short as it is.
May 8, 2024
This book felt so incredibly personal. By the end I was sobbing, not necessarily because the book was sad (which i mean, it was), but more because it made me relive those moments of when we put my own dog down. It’s just the similarities of the situation in the book and my personal experience really made this book even more meaningful.
“…when he cried, he no longer seemed to be looking for attention but to be seeking an end to pain. For a long time we had kept him alive because he still had some life in him…
Then one day we suddenly realized that we had been keeping him alive not because it was good for him, but because it was good for us, because it was too hard to make the decision to let him go.”
That hit a little too close to home 😭
“…when he cried, he no longer seemed to be looking for attention but to be seeking an end to pain. For a long time we had kept him alive because he still had some life in him…
Then one day we suddenly realized that we had been keeping him alive not because it was good for him, but because it was good for us, because it was too hard to make the decision to let him go.”
That hit a little too close to home 😭
September 12, 2019
Listened to this on a walk with my dog, cried at one point, which was not pretty at all, but aside from getting emotional at that one part, I feel like my emotions were because of the love I have for my dog, I didn’t get lots of dog love coming from the author. Oh well, cost me nothing, only took up about 45 minutes of my time, so yes, 2⭐️ and I move on.
May 17, 2021
A dog lover's story. The author talks about the dogs in her life and focuses on her beloved Beau. I may be biased because I, too, am a labrador lover, but I loved her stories of puppy Beau and senior Beau.
This book touched my heart and brought tears but I fully enjoyed it.
This book touched my heart and brought tears but I fully enjoyed it.
June 22, 2021
Today we will put down our beloved Bode. This book will get me through it.
August 27, 2024
3.5 stars.
July 12, 2025
Not a book, just a long essay about loving a dog from puppy hood to knowing it's time to put him down.
March 5, 2021
I felt this short memoir was much more than poignant memories of the author’s beloved dog, Beau. It caused me to reminisce about my two miniature dachshunds and ponder the brevity of life. I’m sure we’ll have an interesting book club discussion about this month’s book!
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