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sariggs's review against another edition
1.0
I thought this might be the next "Racing in the Rain" and I picked it out even though I don't love love love dogs. It was cute in the beginning, but by halfway, all the wrong people were sleeping together and I lost track of what the book was supposed to be about. I wasn't so in love with the characters that they could carry me through a basically plotless novel.
mdoubleb's review against another edition
3.0
A lovely book about New York life and those city-dwellers who love their dogs.
londonmabel's review against another edition
3.0
This was a nice book, but too long. It took way too long before things really started to happen, but by then I was impatient with it. So I just barely skimmed 2 of the storylines, and started skipping descriptions, in order to finish it.
I like Schine, but I think this length was too long for the subject. However much of the writing was clever and heartfelt, and the descriptions of the city are lovely.
I like Schine, but I think this length was too long for the subject. However much of the writing was clever and heartfelt, and the descriptions of the city are lovely.
canadianbookworm's review
4.0
This novel looks at a number of people and dogs that live on one block in New York City. She tells the story from a number of points of view and shows how the different characters interact with each other and are changed by this interaction. I found several of the characters appealing, and all of them believable. A theme running through the book is that we are all only human after all and have feelings and behaviours that we are not always proud of, but that are things that make us vulnerable to others. The way that dogs are used to assist in the interaction of the characters is interesting and the dogs are individualized as well.
debnanceatreaderbuzz's review
3.0
People meet and fall in love via their dogs in this book of light fiction. Friends pointed me toward this book after I complained about the hours I’ve spent this summer with Al Qaeda and fundamental extremists and the poor of sub-Sahara Africa and the test-weary world of disadvantaged New Jersey schools. There is nothing that lingers in your bones after reading this book, nothing that leads you toward writing editorials to the Times. Simple little stories of relationships combined with the steady love of loyal dogs.
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