Walking in Circles Before Lying Down. <\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThese damned books with dogs on the covers. True, I mentioned Paul Auster’s Timbuktu <\/em>as being one of these books that I really enjoyed. But they’re not all like Timbuktu<\/em>. In fact, I think the publishing industry has figured out the perfect way to get someone like me to start reading a literature genre that I typically avoid like the plague: slap a dog photo on the cover. <\/p>\nWhat genre might this be? “Chick Lit.” To be fair, I think this book might qualify as Chick Lit Lite. It’s by no means on par with The Devil Wears Prada,<\/em> but it definitely does more than just dip its big toe into those estrogen-heavy waters. <\/p>\nAll that being said, I’m a sucker for talking dog stories. I was, after all, the only adult willingly in attendance at the Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed<\/em> matinee a few years ago. So a story about a woman who suddenly finds herself able to hear every dog around her definitely has a certain appeal. And even though Dawn, the canine-conversing character in question, does things throughout the novel that I found frustratingly boiler-plate for this particular genre, it was still an entertaining read. However, I do have to say that I found the slightly glib use of Scott Peterson and the BTK Killer as ways of moving along one part of the story to be a bit off-putting. <\/p>\nFinal score: 3.5\/5.<\/strong> Another quick and fluffy-fun beach read to keep in mind this summer. <\/p>\nI’d give you a sneak peek at book number 13, but I’m not really sure what that book is just yet. Sadly, I have such a glut of unread books that I could probably do this 50 Book Challenge for the next 2 years and still have books left untouched. I really need to stay away from bookstores…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m a bit ambivalent about my latest read, Merrill Markoe’s Walking in Circles Before Lying Down. These damned books with dogs on the covers. True, I mentioned Paul Auster’s Timbuktu as being one of these books that I really enjoyed. But they’re not all like Timbuktu. In fact, I think the publishing industry has figured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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