Just as it was refreshing to have the funny piece by Ned Beauman, or the historic look by Chris Pearson, amid mostly melancholic ones. This was a charming collection of essays portraying an extremely diverse cast of dogs that were both charming and confusing in equal measure. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. and also probably because i love dogs more than i do gardening, the ladies pond (have never been), and food (i like food but would give up anything if it meant having more time with my childhood dog). Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.

this was what i wanted dog songs by mary oliver to be, and reading it definitely helped soothe the disappointment i felt from being let down by the latter.

Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. This anthology promises to bring – much as our four-legged furry friends do – joy and delight, and surprising depth and poignancy. Instead, the collection of authors use dogs as a vehicle to just talk about their own issues and absolutely overshare personal circumstances.

After an hiatus of two years, I was delighted to read that Daunt Books would be publishing another collection of essays this year, having enjoyed their past collections, particularly In The Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life. My favourite essay was Jessica Pan's The Master List as I think she endeared herself to me the moment she spoke about wrestling with a slobbering rottweiler as well as showing her terrified husband how she could put her head in his mouth and 'he could kill me but he chooses not to'.There were some I really didn't get along with - Ned Beauman's being the worst as he seems to think because he's a tall man with a little dog in a park people would presume he's a paedophile and it was such an odd take that he was so consistent with in his story, it was really off-putting. yes, i’ve read all four of them) probably because they were mostly personal, with only one being more scholarly. The essays were surprisingly intimate, as if the authors' dogs provided a window into their domestic lives, whether that be current or remembered, that might not otherwise have been exposed. I looked forward to this new routine and it encouraged me to read more regularly and consistently - I would recommend this book be read this way, in little chunks.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Ned's one still weirds me the hell out, I'd bought this as a gift for someone (that I later borrowed to read) and his was the story I flicked to once they book arrived, very quickly making me wonder what the hell I had just purchased. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. I needed a set of easily digestible, well written, and comforting essays about the best thing in the world… dogs.Perhaps this intimacy and vulnerability is encouraged by the simple and honest love that most have for their canine companions, unlike the complexity of human-to-human relationships. Reading this made my simultaneously miss my childhood dogs and yearn for a new furry friend who will enrich my life. However, for the most part I picked this book up every night for the past week or so and read one/ two stories at a time. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.