I had Lily and the Octopus on my to-read list, but then I saw Steven Rowley’s new book on NetGalley, and of course I bumped my ridiculously long line to read that one first (thanks, NetGalley!). I couldn’t help myself—this book has a terrific hook of a premise. As an author, getting your first book ...
I can't even... This is a love story. About a man and his dog. And it's not a completely sad story, but it's emotional and made me cry. It's the story of a man and his best friend and an octopus and falling out of love and in love and finding each other and losing each other. It's the story of gr...
This is a sweet, sad, funny and adorable story about a man and his dog. It's very different from any of the man's best friend stories that I've read. The way I took it was that the man personifies his dog. The dog is his world, and he has conversations with his dog all the time. The emotions sne...
This book can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.Why is it that every dog book that I read leaves me in tears? I am a huge dog lover so I am always drawn to this kind of book even though I know that I will be a mess before it is over. But the journey is usually worth it in the end and th...
So here's the (very short) pitch that got me to buy this novel: This is a story about that special someone: the one you trust, the one you can’t live without.For Ted Flask, that someone special is his aging companion Lily, who happens to be a dog. The novel has a weird but memorable title. It ha...
Lily and Ted have spent 12 blissful years together. Just because Lily is a dachshund and Ted is man in his 40s doesn’t mean their relationship means any less. But suddenly it would appear that their time together may be drawing to an end. An interloper, an octopus, has started to take Lily away from...
Lily and the Octopus, Steven Rowley, author; Michael Urie, narrator Ted Flask is 34 years old. He is a writer. Lily is 12 years old which is 84 in dog years. She is a dachshund. She is Ted’s dog. Ted was not sure he could ever have a fully committed relationship with anyone or anything until he foun...
Ted and his dog Lily have a deep relationship. One built on deep conversations…“Why do you call me that?”“Why do I call you what?”“Monkey.”“Why do I call you Monkey?”“And all those other names.”“Those are terms of endearment.”“I don’t understand.” Lily squints as she stares out into the sun.“Terms o...
I should preface my review with my strongly held view that many pet owners coddle, indulge, spoil, anthropomorphize and ruin their pets (frequently as a substitute for human interaction). This novel is about such a pet owner, who discovers his Dachshund Lily is suffering from cancer. He refers to ...
Ted Flask is a 42 year old man living in Los Angeles, CA. He has recently ended a serious relationship with Jeffrey and he sees a shrink on a regular basis. The one great thing in Ted’s life that he can count on is Lily.When Ted was in his twenties, his best friend Trent predicted that his life woul...
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