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BetteTheRed said:
I have found a really fun little PI series though the library, have read books 5 and 1, they're detective stories, no worries; apparently, there's 8 now and a pre-quel or two. But it's written by the co-protagonist, the dog. Specfically a 100 lb German Shepherd who failed K9 training, but gets along with his PI, Bernie, just fine.

Chet and Bernie series, by Spencer Quinn. An attempt at the mind of a dog. Quite an entertaining perspective. Uses the word perp a lot, and seems to divide the human world along those lines.
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I read a note elsewhere about this series too - I couldn't quite wrap my brain around it being narrated by a dog - but now I think I will give it a try. Thanks Bette.
 
Carolla said:
I read a note elsewhere about this series too - I couldn't quite wrap my brain around it being narrated by a dog - but now I think I will give it a try. Thanks Bette.
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There are a few other books (ahem) narrated by dogs.

The Art of Racing in the Rain
A Dog's Journey & its sequels
 
BetteTheRed said:
I have found a really fun little PI series though the library, have read books 5 and 1, they're detective stories, no worries; apparently, there's 8 now and a pre-quel or two. But it's written by the co-protagonist, the dog. Specfically a 100 lb German Shepherd who failed K9 training, but gets along with his PI, Bernie, just fine.

Chet and Bernie series, by Spencer Quinn. An attempt at the mind of a dog. Quite an entertaining perspective. Uses the word perp a lot, and seems to divide the human world along those lines.
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Went to the library yesterday to see if I could find any of the books. Picked up 2, 3 and 4. I have put the first one on hold.

I also found one of Spencer Quinn's stand alone dog books. Will let you know how I like it.
 
Remember dogs resemble digging processes ... they kick up a lot of dirt while making holes in the system as they augur well ...

Produces places where the dirt in piled in the surrounding ... like Saturn's rings! Imagine spatial excavations ... specious ... without parallel or para Bell?

Like a man of his word ... where truth means something ... and then there is where we're at that it means little ... thus recessive jinns ... deep humus as turned ...

The world of metaphor is well stacked ... for to a' MU's those into it ... sometimes like filial pa stry ...
 
I have just bought, "Suffer The Little Children" by Tamara Starblanket after listening at Amnesty International's meeting.
It is heart rending ans I'll be doing it in a paced read. Heart ripping... more likely. She spoke for over an hour as to how,
and why she researched and wrote this book. My emotions rocketed up & down, often breaking.

I also got a children;s book today, that is, "Slow Down, Tumbleweed!" by Haven Iverson - Illustrated by Rob Sayegh Jr.
On the back it says: "Celebrate Life --- both MOVING FAST and MOVING SLOW"

Lots of reading.

SW 7
 
Spirit Wind 7 said:
I have just bought, "Suffer The Little Children" by Tamara Starblanket after listening at Amnesty International's meeting.
It is heart rending ans I'll be doing it in a paced read. Heart ripping... more likely. She spoke for over an hour as to how,
and why she researched and wrote this book. My emotions rocketed up & down, often breaking.

I also got a children;s book today, that is, "Slow Down, Tumbleweed!" by Haven Iverson - Illustrated by Rob Sayegh Jr.
On the back it says: "Celebrate Life --- both MOVING FAST and MOVING SLOW"

Lots of reading.

SW 7
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That sounds like a challenging read Spirit Wind 7. Sometimes I want to engage with those challenging books, other times I just want something more escapist. For that I've been reading my way through the Birder Murder series by Steve Burrows. Great mysteries, interesting characters, and relates to my new-found birding interest too. The first three were enjoyable & I just reserved the 4th - A Shimmer of Hummingbirds - at the public library today :-)
 
There is escape and then there is depth ... some say in literalist ... the depth perception escaped them in circular logos!

Thus God tous goes about ... 2 lines of sight required for triangulation ...
 
Have finished the first four Chet and Bernie books by Spencer Quinn. They are a hoot! The narrator (dog) gets repetitive in his comments but I think it is written to illustrate how Chet lives in the moment.

The mystery story aspect doesn't grab me as much as the dog's view of the world.

Also read a stand alone book by the same author. Found it pretty good, too.
 
Got a couple things on the go.

First off, I've been catching up on the other entries in the competition I am in (my story is linked in my sig). Some good stuff there, and I posted one of my favorites in WonderArt.

And I am working my way through The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw. At the root, it's a caper story; a tough, gritty tale of a band of notorious queer female (yes, those are important traits) mercenaries reuniting for a last, big score. But it is set in a far future transhuman setting where people can be resurrected as clones of themselves (one of the characters literally escapes a bad situation by killing herself so the group's leader can resurrect her) and powerful AIs, called Minds, are in charge. While Khaw is not strictly a Canadian writer (they are Malaysian in origin), they and their two kitties currently live in Montreal.
 
I've been dealing with indoctrination, indigenous and indigents as well as endogenous and endogeneity ... although a mass dews have a clue of what I speak ... thus whetting and sharper edging ...

One must learn about the word as it urns ...
 
Just finished The Push by new Canadian author Ashley Audrain. It came highly recommended to me as a psychological novel. I found it more of a creepy thriller.

All the same it's a thought provoking read. One of those novels that would be perfect for a book club.
 
Finished You Feel It Just Below the Ribs.
I loved it! I don't know how much I would have been into it without the podcasts though. i was really into Within The Wires, I thought the first season was rather brilliant. Other seasons were up and down in terms of how interesting the individual story lines were but I was definitely hooked on learning more about the fictional world. The book would have still been enjoyable without the podcasts, but someone would have likely had to convince me to get into it. The extensive use of footnotes was slightly annoying as an ebook, each footnote gets it's own page and I found the clicking back and forth wasn't always easy to get right, sometimes I would end up turning a page instead, or putting down a bookmark instead of my intended click. To give an idea of the amount about 30% of the pages are for the footnotes - but again, it's 1 footnote/page.

While each season/the book are all separate stories in the same world, if you're going to listen to the podcasts I strongly suggest getting through season 1 before the book. Anything prior to the first season will spoil it I think, particularly the book. After that, any order is probably fine. The 1st season isn't going to be for everyone though. It starts off as a meditation tape, I wouldn't recommend it as a relaxing listen though.
 
Reading Even Greater Mistakes by Charlie Jane Anders. Great collection of s-f and fantasy that really does not feel like traditional s-f and fantasy. Almost more of a magic realist feel to some stories. Anders also has some novels out but says in the introduction (an excellent essay on fiction writing and how she got into it) that short stories are still her first love. One big difference from a lot of even modern sf and f is the diversity of characters. Anders is transgender and her partner (Annalee Newitz, also an s-f writer) is non-binary so sympathetic, well-written LGBTQ+ characters are almost the norm here.
 
Well over the holidays I've read about 8 books in 2 weeks. A biography on Michell Obama and alot of fiction writing.
Now I've veered towards some personal healing. I have a 39 year old son who has become estranged from me personally, so I picked up a book called Rules of Estrangement (Why adult children cut ties and how to heal the conflict) by Joshua Colman PHD.
It helps that Dr. Colman went through this experience himself.
I'm halfway through it, extremely enlightening and helpful.
I'm also awaiting another book on the subject, that I ordered, called
Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) by Amy J. L. Baker.
 
Waterfall said:
Well over the holidays I've read about 8 books in 2 weeks. A biography on Michell Obama and alot of fiction writing.
Now I've veered towards some personal healing. I have a 39 year old son who has become estranged from me personally, so I picked up a book called Rules of Estrangement (Why adult children cut ties and how to heal the conflict) by Joshua Colman PHD.
It helps that Dr. Colman went through this experience himself.
I'm halfway through it, extremely enlightening and helpful.
I'm also awaiting another book on the subject, that I ordered, called
Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) by Amy J. L. Baker.
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That's good it helps hopefully the 2nd does too.
 
I'm listening to 'Becoming' by Michelle Obama. It's long...19 hours of listening. But it is really interesting to hear her take on life as the FLOTUS. As a hold-in-my-hand book, I just finished 'stranger in the lifeboat' by Mitch Albom. I'm surprised that people seem to like his books so much. I think he is trying to point people in the direction of faith, but it seems to be such a simplistic faith that he markets.
 
Yay! You found the thread!

I'm working, again, on Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens". Long term project. Takes a lot of thinking.
 
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