Ich habe keine Ahnung, wie es „Mein Geburtstag und andere Katastrophen“ von Merrill Markoe in mein Bücherregal geschafft hat. Das Buch passt so gar nicht in mein Beuteschema, daher vermute ich, dass es irgendwann einmal Gegenstand einer Rettungsmission war. In meiner Teenagerzeit habe ich häufig Büc...
You talk to your dog. You know you do, so you might as well admit it. And it's not all goo goo ga ga baby talk either. No, you engage in conversations composed of complete sentences and abstract thought. Gil Winowiscz, the forty seven year old hero of Nose Down, Eyes Up talks to his four dogs...
I read this right after Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card, so I was definitely up for something lighter, and for a short while my mood and the humor of the book carried me along quite nicely.Then the characters started to get on my nerves. The protagonist is a whiny doormat. If she ever fully...
This is a must read for any dog lover. I have always thought that there is a grand conspiracy theory that dogs actually are planning a world take over and this just confirms it. I only hope that Markoe has another book like this for me to read soon.
I just enjoy Markoe's writing so much, it doesn't matter that I'm largely indifferent to dogs.