For those of you that love dogs and reading books

[Lizard Queen]

I just heard this book review on NPR last night and it sounds fascinating:

"Emily and Keeper, in their rough way, clearly loved each other, but in "No Better Friend," Robert Weintraub gives the most inspiring true life account I've ever read of a human-animal bond. "No Better Friend" is the story of Judy, a purebred pointer who was World War II's only canine POW. She started out her service as a mascot on a British ship that was bombed during the evacuation of Singapore. The next ship she was on it was torpedoed, and Judy spent hours in the water, paddling wounded men over to floating bits of debris. Even more incredibly, she spent three years in a Japanese POW camp, eluding death through her own cunning - she was good at hiding from angry guards - and through the quick thinking of the prisoners who loved her - above all, a young RAF technician named Frank Williams.

When the POWs were marched out of that camp in 1944, Frank risked execution by smuggling Judy out in a rice bag slung over his shoulder. She stayed perfectly still in that hot bag for hours. After the war, Judy received in the highest military medal awarded to an animal. I know this summary makes "No Better Friend" sound like a canine version of "Unbroken." And as a dog lover, I say what could be better than that? All the books on this early summer list begin in familiar territory and then surprise us readers by going off into places we could never anticipate."


www.npr.org/2015/06/02/411457923/four-books-that-deliver-unexpected-and-delightful-surprises-this-summer

[steph08]

That sounds like a good book! I will have to check it out.

I love dog books - but they always make me cry! Marley & Me, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Amazing Gracie.

[Abby Normal]

I'll have to check out that book.  Sounds like something that DS would like too.

I'm in the middle of "All the lights we can not see".  That's a book to check out too.  Not dog related thought. 

[steph08]

Abby - I am listening to that audiobook right now.

Not really what I was expecting, but decent so far. I just finished listening to The Martian and it is such a change of pace!

[Abby Normal]

 I expected it to be more "intense" like Sarah's key- but it's definitely a lot  lighter. It's a quick read, but it's good.

I think I'm enjoying it because I don't have to think too much, and it's not overly emotional- I have enough going on in my own life.  Just a good story. 

[gacpa]

I bought my mom "All The Light We Cannot See" for Mother's Day.  She has not said if she has read it or not.  She did read Harlan Coben's "The Stranger" which I got her also.   She said it was really good.

I love dog stories, and dog movies.  Reading Marley and Me made me cry.  Lassie makes me cry.  I just have really strong feelings about dogs.  Their company has really been a huge comfort to me down through the years.  I can't see myself ever living without dogs in my home.  Maybe if I get too old to take care of one, then yes, but as long as I can take care of one, I will have one. 

I don't really "get" people who hate animals, or cannot at least feel compassion for them.  "No Better Friend" sounds really good, but I get too emotional over dog stories.