Oh this book was good but I listened to the audio version and totally had a couple of teary moments while running. It’s not the kind of book you want to know too much about before you go in, so be warned. But basically, it’s about a man named Ted Flask, who’s been having a lot of trouble lately. His therapist doesn’t understand him. He and his boyfriend broke up. But he has a shining light in his life — a dachshund named Lily. Unfortunately, […]
WHAT! IS! THIS! BOOK! IT! MADE! ME! CRY!
Spoiler alert: Lily is going to break your heart. This is something the book lets you know in the first few pages, so I don’t feel too bad revealing it. But she is going to keep breaking your heart for all the hundreds of pages with her deeply dachshund (aka doxie) ways of being. The deep bond with her person, the intelligence and stubbornness, the territorial barking, and the exuberance are all deeply endearing. Rowley captured that unique, persistent doxie bark so that hearing Lily’s “voice” was […]