Dog Hearted: Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions

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All of dog life is here, and this charming book shows how much poorer our own lives would be without them.

I am always drawn to books with dogs on the cover but most of the time I put them back on the shelf (I’m sensitive and self-aware). 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. Whilst a reader picking up a book about dogs might expect the contents of the book to be about dog, the authors and essayists of this book seem too self-absorbed to think of their readership’s expectations.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. She has a PhD in Environmental History and Aesthetics and is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.

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. Instead, the collection of authors use dogs as a vehicle to just talk about their own issues and absolutely overshare personal circumstances. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.This was a charming collection of essays portraying an extremely diverse cast of dogs that were both charming and confusing in equal measure. It goes beyond the damp noses and wagging tails and gets to the heart of what makes dogs our true lifelong companions. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. yes, i’ve read all four of them) probably because they were mostly personal, with only one being more scholarly.