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This is really a memoir of a woman’s life raising her youngest son as a single mother following two divorces (her older children are adults). Though she has a “perfect” dog, Shakespeare, a rescued mutt and a cat Isis, succumbing to the pleadings of her 10 year old son Mikey, Munier acquires Freddie, a badly behaved beagle. Freddie’s misdeeds are interspersed in what is essentially the story of Munier trying to put her life on a balanced footing. A writer and editor, she has relocated to a lakesi...
Got this for free at our vacation home over the summer. While it sounded like the beagle version of 'Marley and Me', the book was as much about the author trying to fix her messed up life as it was about fixing Freddie's behavior. Munier had just divorced her second husband, settled their custody battle for her youngest child, and moved to New England for work when her son holds her to a promise she made that if they ever had a house of their own again, he could have a puppy. Their older dog was...
This somewhat fictionalized autobiographical book fails in almost every category. The author is a poor pet owner and a distracted parent who is looking for love rather indiscriminately. It also spectacularly fails the Bechtel Test - every conversation she bothers to record with other women (even the Veterinarian for Pete's sake) is about men and marriage.At least her use of the rules of the English language is acceptable, which is why I added the second star.
I feel mislead by the title of the book. It's not a memoir focused on the shenanigans of Freddie but the travails of the author's life. Which do include shenanigans by Freddie but she is the focus. Also as a memoir, she jumps around the timeline and sometimes not clearly so. In one spot, she essentially repeated herself within a chapters worth of pages. I do not regret reading this. I did enjoy it for what it turned out to be. But if it came up in conversation... I would tell my friends not to "...
Really enjoyed this story. Great question: do you rescue the rescue dog, or does the dog rescue you?In the process of "fixing" the beagle, Freddie, Paula delights with her great sense of humor and comparison to challenges with relationships. Much like the person who can fix his life with the next, perfect partner, except that HE's the one that needs fixing.I'm currently reading Paula's Mercy Carr mystery series. Great characters, especially Mercy, suffering from PTSD after deployment in Afghanis...
As the owner of a beagle, I can relate to a lot of the problems Paula has with Freddie. A friend gave me this novel and I enjoyed reading it while travelling. This book goes in to discuss the back story of how Paula became a single mom and her poor choices in men that also led up to her moving time after time and getting Freddie. It's a decent read for any beagle lovers out there and also teaches a thing or two about life
Decent readGood book, I got a little lost in some of the past recollection. Time was weird in some chapters, I wasn't sure if it had been one week or one year. A good, decent quick weekend read.
Cute storyThis is a light funny and honest story for anyone who has ever had an unruly pet. Cute delightful read.
Cute but long. Would make a cute movie.
With the pretext of the dog, the author tells us about her separation and life as a single mum - and as for the dog things looked pretty bad (read "untrainable dog") and then improve, so does life for the author.Not particularly novel storyline, not particularly well written, at various places slightly boring. I read it because I find it hard not to finish a book once I started it; and I picked it up in the first place because I am a sucker for dogs and the book was a freebie from Amazon. Wouldn...
