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jo_the_bookworm's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5
soysauce7's review
fast-paced
3.0
What started out as a cute story about a frisky dog, slowly turned into a story of a woman trying to find a new boyfriend. Can't say I'm a big fan of this book.
ungerna's review against another edition
2.0
This was a cute/fun/easy read at times. I wanted to give it five stars but I can't. One star removed because she went straight to purebred dogs without giving any thought to shelter dogs. Second star removed because she believed the breeders BS when they told her CKCS's were the "perfect breed". Last but not least, the third star removed because she thought that Anthony tale of Norman the cat was funny...WTF. I'd love to blindfold Anthony and take him to a foreign country with no money and see if he can find his own damn way home. Jerk!
wordsofclover's review against another edition
2.0
So this book should be renamed to 'Judith Summers' Dating Life and Some Stories About Her Dog George'.
When you go into a book based around a dog, you definitely expect a lot more stories about the dog and not massive chunks about the author's dating life. I really didn't care. I didn't like Judith Summers voice at all in this book and she across as a posh, selfish dog owner who is happy to overfeed her pet till he's obese and not bother about training so that both his life and hers is fretful and tense.
When she bought George from the breeder, she didn't have any kind of dog things at home to care for him, thought locking him in a bathroom where there were numerous things he could eat was a good idea on his first night, lay down rules and never followed them which ended up being disastrous in the long run and basically was someone who thought they were a dog whisperer and really weren't.
I almost DNF'd this book when she told the story about the first man she dated after her husband died and this man thought a suitable dinner time conversation was telling the story of how he hated his wife and daughter's cats so much that one day he put one of them in a box, drove miles down a road to a random park and dumped the cat on the side of the road. LIKE WTF? Not only was this apparently an acceptable story to tell, he thought it was funny and laughed about it and so did Summers. Just because the cat found her way back and was no doubt traumatised, scared, hungry and cold along the way doesn't mean the story is funny or at all right.
I also hated Summers lackadaisical attitude towards overfeeding George and not bothering to train him. He ended up being a needy and clingy dog because she couldn't bother to give him some space as a puppy and teach him he was alright without her.
I also hated EVERYTHING about her dating life. Not only did she break up with the one man that was right for her (Alex), she insisted on going out with a horrible man who openly despised her dog and didn't totally care about her son. This man couldn't even say the word 'fart' without gagging. Who wants to be with a person like that? He also didn't bother to try and look for George when he got lost, saying, "he's only a dog". Yeah he would have been dumped then and there if it was me.
There were just huge chunks of this that didn't need to be in it - the history about where she lived, the whole speel about her book and who she was writing about when she first met Zac, the several chapters just about her dating which seemed to just be there so she could prove to the reader that she was still desirable even though she was a middle-aged widow and not to mention the cringey and unnecessary bit about the man who 'looked into her soul' on the train. WHO CARES!
When you go into a book based around a dog, you definitely expect a lot more stories about the dog and not massive chunks about the author's dating life. I really didn't care. I didn't like Judith Summers voice at all in this book and she across as a posh, selfish dog owner who is happy to overfeed her pet till he's obese and not bother about training so that both his life and hers is fretful and tense.
When she bought George from the breeder, she didn't have any kind of dog things at home to care for him, thought locking him in a bathroom where there were numerous things he could eat was a good idea on his first night, lay down rules and never followed them which ended up being disastrous in the long run and basically was someone who thought they were a dog whisperer and really weren't.
I almost DNF'd this book when she told the story about the first man she dated after her husband died and this man thought a suitable dinner time conversation was telling the story of how he hated his wife and daughter's cats so much that one day he put one of them in a box, drove miles down a road to a random park and dumped the cat on the side of the road. LIKE WTF? Not only was this apparently an acceptable story to tell, he thought it was funny and laughed about it and so did Summers. Just because the cat found her way back and was no doubt traumatised, scared, hungry and cold along the way doesn't mean the story is funny or at all right.
I also hated Summers lackadaisical attitude towards overfeeding George and not bothering to train him. He ended up being a needy and clingy dog because she couldn't bother to give him some space as a puppy and teach him he was alright without her.
I also hated EVERYTHING about her dating life. Not only did she break up with the one man that was right for her (Alex), she insisted on going out with a horrible man who openly despised her dog and didn't totally care about her son. This man couldn't even say the word 'fart' without gagging. Who wants to be with a person like that? He also didn't bother to try and look for George when he got lost, saying, "he's only a dog". Yeah he would have been dumped then and there if it was me.
There were just huge chunks of this that didn't need to be in it - the history about where she lived, the whole speel about her book and who she was writing about when she first met Zac, the several chapters just about her dating which seemed to just be there so she could prove to the reader that she was still desirable even though she was a middle-aged widow and not to mention the cringey and unnecessary bit about the man who 'looked into her soul' on the train. WHO CARES!
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