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I loved Marley and Me, but it definitely calls for Kleenex. Also moving, but less humorous, is Dog Years by poet Mark Doty. I enjoyed the memoir Fifty Acres and a Poodle
and Pack of Two by essayist Caroline Knapp. I just finished the riveting but tragic novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, ... ... a staff copy that I snagged.
The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan...I guess this means I'll finally have to read Marley and Me
Acedia and Me by Kathleen Norris
The Terminal Spy by Alan S. Cowell--I'll be passing this one on to Mr. Booklady
Descartes' Bones by Russell Sho ...
#31 Marley & Me by John Grogan
3 1/2 stars out of 5
Marley & Me is the tale of neurotic dog named Marley and his family the Grogans. The story starts when John and his wife Jenny bring home a 12 week old ... Walking the Dog and Other Stories Bernard MacLaverty
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog John Grogan
I Had a Black Dog Matthew Johnstone
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Greyfriar's Bobby Eleanor Atkinson Eat Me by Linda Jaivin
Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
Marley and Me by John Grogan
Me, Myself, and Bob by Phil Vischer
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan ... casefiles, volume 1 between watching episodes, which explains why I haven't been reading much.
I haven't started Marley and Me yet but need to finish by Friday. For The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan
email: morrowmarketing @ harpercollins. com
subj: THE LONGEST TRIP HOME galley Marley and Me is a wonderful book. I agree with cynthiadogmom, have a lot of tissues handy. >14, Marley and Me is a must-read! Especially if you've ever had the dubious pleasure of sharing your life with a canine "problem child." But make sure you have plenty of kleenex handy. My friend told me that marley and me is a definate read. So I'm hoping to get that one soon. 46. Marley and Me by John Grogan
I read this for our next book discussion. What a great book. It made me laugh out loud and I walked around reading parts to my husband. I cried, until I read the next part to make me laugh. ... off-guard with a crazy few days at the end with almost no reading time. Ach. I'll finish this weekend. Next month is Marley and Me.
Besides TCoT, I'm currently reading Sexy Origins and Intimate Things. It's highly entertaining, though somehow I doubt this is the sort of ... ... off-guard with a crazy few days at the end with almost no reading time. Ach. I'll finish this weekend. Next month is Marley and Me.
Besides TCoT, I'm currently reading Sexy Origins and Intimate Things. It's highly entertaining, though somehow I doubt this is the sort of ... ... I'm a huge fan of McEwan, but this wasn't a masterpiece, even though it did win the Booker....not my top pick by him.
-Marley and Me: I'm a dog lover and I just thought this was so-so
-Twilight: yes. I read this. I quite enjoyed it actually! It wasn't on par with Anne Rice, but I ... Oh, yes... I love the "dog eat dog" book thing. Rosie chewed the cover off my copy of Marley and Me. I posted a picture of that here somewhere. ... two statements connected? Hmmm. This is my second Bowen novel and I'm trying to develop a taste for her writing. (??)
Marley and Me -- my sister-in-law, who has good taste in books, told me I had to read this. I wasn't the least interested in it, but I've had it for 2 years or so, so it's ... Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog, by John Grogan
John Grogan is a newspaper columnist who writes this memoir of the years he and his family shared with Marley, a disaster of a golden lab. Marley was a neurotic galoot of a dog, but sweet and loving as they come.
... Progress in June
25. Water-Babies
26. Anne of Green Gables
27. Marley and Me
... 2008
38. Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley
39. Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
40. Marley and Me, by John Grogan
41. The Heat of the Day, by Elizabeth Bowen
42. The Cottagers, by Marshall N. Klimasewiski
43. Choosing a Career in Information ... Progress in June
25. Water-Babies
26. Anne of Green Gables
27. Marley and Me
28. The Heat of the Day
29. Alias Grace
30. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
With Water-Babies, I've completed my first category, 1001 Books To Read . . . . This is not an ... ... Maureen Johnson
17. The Dream Life of Sukhanov: Olga Grushin
18. Change of Heart: Jodi Picoult
19. Marley and Me: John Grogan
20. The Secret History: Donna Tartt
21. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: Marina Lewycka
22. The Glass Castle: Jean ... ... love it. Worth checking out but not something I'd necessarily read again. Which is a shame because I bought it...
17. Marley And Me by John Grogan
This was a cute story that had me laughing out loud at parts and crying at others. Overall a great read.
18. Mr. Monk And The Two Assistan ... Oh, Jody! You know me so well! It's Marley and Me - heart-warming, heart-breaking, beautiful Marley!
I did just check mine and I know that's right so I'll be back with a post in a sec but I've just been reminded that I already owe one elsewhere too! ... Borders, I got:
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (this was the reason I went with my Borders Reward email in tow)
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The Gathering by Anne Enright
I was only planning to get the first book, but I walked past the buy one, get one half off table, saw The Ga ... ... Puelo
39.Dead Line - Brian McGrory
40.Strangled - Brian McGrory
41.Boyos - Richard Marinick
42.Marley and Me - John Grogan
43.The Nymphos of Rocky Flats -Mario Acevedo
44.Bahamarama -Bob Morris
45.The Innocent - Harlan Coben
46.The Fall of ... Having finished Marley and Me, I am off to read some dystopian fiction - Jamestown: a novel by Matthew Sharpe. 27) Marley and Me by John Grogan (review) >88: mrstreme, Marley and Me is a wonderful book. Enjoy! ... with The Story of Forgetting and thought it was an impressive debut by Stefan Merrill Block.
Now I am off to read Marley and Me by John Grogan. I am ready to laugh and cry, as one LTer warned me! =) #42 was Marley and Me : life and love with the world's worst dog by John Grogran. This was a great book and I think every dog lover out there will enjoy it. I laughed, I cried, and then I laughed some more.
Having a 5 month old Goldendoodle puppy who we named Marley after all our Jamaica ... ... of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Assigned Category: (6) Favourite Authors (2/8)
Could have been categorised as: --
19. Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
Assigned Category: (5) Non-fiction (2/8)
Could have been categorised as: Authors I've not ... ... copies
9. Ageless: The Naked Truth about Bio-identical Hormones, Suzanne Somers 20 copies
From Bookbrowse
1. Marley and Me, John Grogan 2,543 copies
2. The Innocent Man: Murder and Justice in a Small Town, John Gresham 961 copies
3. The World is Flat, Thomas L. Frie ... ... pages, and I said yes.
A very sweet book and a nice shared experience for the class and me.
More up to day, I love Marley and Me. Marley and Me
April Fools Day
Skallagrigg - probably my top tear jerker
The Reckoning - the last of SKP Welsh triology - just because I didn't want the series to be over
And I guess now I'll have to read Marley and Me. It's been on my "To Read" shelf. I'll make sure to have tissues.... Very well put, #133 MarianV
A Child called It by Dave Pelzer and Marley and me by John Grogan ... rotten! Our favorite thing to do is sit on the couch while I read and she sleeps beside me. Our very favorite dog book is Marley and Me, surely one of the funniest books ever written!!! ... on them and if Clyde doesn't think that he is getting enough attention he chews on the corner.
My favorite dog book is Marley and Me I cried so much during the story. I read it not long after putting my sweetheart of 16 years to sleep. She was a black lab named Stubbs. A lot of Marley's ... 4. Non-fiction
1. Marley and Me by John Grogan (January, 4*)
2. Smoke, Mirrors and Murder by Ann Rule (January, 3*)
3. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (finished February)
4. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II (finished February)
... 3. Marley and Me by John Grogan
A touching memorial to a loved and loving dog. Having owned a wonderful yellow lab, some of Marley's escapades were all too familiar, and, several times, I found myself laughing out loud. ...
5. The Looking Glass, by Michele Roberts (completed May 2008). Picked this one up for free about 4 years ago.
6. Marley and Me, by John Grogan (completed June 2008). I've had this one loan for 2 years and it was time to return it.
7.
8.
... Nemirovsky
Non-Fiction:
A Walk in the Woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Marley and me by John Grogan
Scribbling the cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller
Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters and Su ... I didn't get any books for Christmas, so I went to Borders and treated myself:
Marley and Me by John Grogan
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
Negotiating With The Dead by Margaret Atwood
Most of these were on the bargain table!
Then, I met my ... --> 58
I, too, found Marley and Me a wonderful, heartwarming read this year...and I only have three feral cats. :-) I love well-written animal stories, though, and found John Grogan's story simply delightful! I just finished Marley and Me, which I love, especially since I have a big golden retriever who almost died exactly a year ago from the same thing! I laughed and sobbed over that book! I am now reading The Pilot's Wife and it's hard to put down - I love it so far! ... born in the late 40s or early 50s will especially enjoy it. The other book that ranks up there with "the funniest ever" is Marley and Me by John Grogan. Praise for Marley and Me from here, as well. Truly wonderful. He's also published an edition for children, that takes out some of the stuff about his relationship with his wife (nothing truly racy there, but probably not as interesting for kids). Anyway, my daughter loved it. --> 93
I really think you should share Marley and Me with your husband and your dog. It might make you cry, but you'll come away from that book with a warm and fuzzy feeling for John Grogan (the author) and, of course, Marley (the lab). --> 91
A good antidote to Katz's Orson: A Good Dog is Marley and Me by John Grogan. It's a wonderful and hilariously funny dog story. Instead of a border collie, the main (dog) character is a yellow Labrador retriever. Grogan faces the same dilemma as Katz but makes the opposite choice (ag ... ... just how tender-hearted I really am! I, too, am one who has been moved to massive tears by several books, especially Marley and Me, The Notebook, and Flowers for Algernon.
But let me say, for all those putting off reading Marley and Me because of the fear of crying...DON'T!!! Yes ... ... ker
591 Zoology: Last Chance to See
610 Medical sciences; Medicine: Mountains Beyond Mountains
636 Animal husbandry: Marley and Me
641 Food & drink: Kitchen Confidential
791 Public performances: If Chins Could Kill
796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games: Into Thin Air
798 Equestri ... Earlier this week, I finished Marley and Me. Sob!
Now I'm working on Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay.
I think I've been away from fantasy too long. I'm finding it hard to get into. :( I know what you mean about Marley and Me. Funny in many places, and terribly touching and sad at the end. Oh my. I finished Marley and Me on my flight home yesterday. Anyone who couldn't see I was reading must have thought I was truly devastated that my holiday was over! Proper nose running, tears streaming, throat chugging.... 19) Marley and Me.
I wept inconsolably. If you've ever loved and lost a dog.... Carol,
I'm so terribly sorry to hear about Ginger. I understand what you mean about not being able to read Marley and Me. I found after I lost Indie that I couldn't see a dog on tv, or read about them in a book without crying.
Yes. I LOVED Marley and Me that was the best book I'v ever read! I cried so much. And the book that scared the heck out of me was Where the Red Fern Grows... if you've read it...the ending... the personalities of the dogs is so simler to mac and beddy... ... the let's talk about dog books: nonfiction on dog owning or fiction with dog characters looming large. Did everyone read Marley? is that already too long ago? Did you cry nearly uncontrollably at the end? Friends to whom I lent the book had to take turns reading aloud to each other so they ... I don't cry too often any more, but then I think I'm careful not to read books that I know will be tremendously sad - like Marley and Me - will definitely stay away from that one. But Dumbledore's death got me sobbing big time, partly due to the fact that I read the book straight through, so I ... >165: izzybee, I loved Marley and Me, it was so sweet. Enjoy! I started Marley and me by John Grogan during my lunch hour. Can't wait to go home and finish it. ... and enjoyed that a lot as well.
I'm interested in reading Cordwainer Smith, Karen Joy Fowler, Kay Kenyon, Louise Marley, as well as finishing the Rifters series by Peter Watts. I also want to start digging in to some of next year's GoHs James Patrick Kelly and Johnathan Le ... Marley and Me by John Grogan
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Spock Enslaved by D.T. Steiner
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian Definitely Marley and Me. Makes me teary just thinking about it! And any book where an animal dies, really.
Also when Gus dies in Lonesome Dove. *sniff* I've been wanting to read Marley and Me, but I think I'm going to wait a while. :-) #10 -- clare - I wasn't even going to post on this thread because I am just not a cryer - I had forgotten about Marley and Me. Sobbed. Went and found by dogs, clinged to their necks -- sobbed some more. What a loser. I didn't realise how pathetic I really was until I got to the end of Marley and Me. ... and it rarely causes a true sadness. however, when animals die in books i lose it. For example:
*Spoiler*
In marley and me, when the dog dies, I cried. Not the normal tearing-up cry, but deep sobbing uncontrolable crying. I was embarassed, and worried that my husband would hear ... ... winner of the 2006 RITA Award for Best Paranormal Romance
Marley and Me by John Grogan, winner of the 2006 Quill Book Award for Best Audio Book
Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Ea ...I picked up Marley and Me at a library book sale today for a friend. I really think she'll like it. I'm thinking about maybe reading it myself before I give it to her. http://www.webrary.org/kids/jbibdogs.html
Morton Grove Public Library's dog book list.
Literary? How about Marley and Me? ... 2)
17. The Sea and the Mirror by W.H. Auden (106)
Reading Now:
18. Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster (50/304)
19. Marley and Me by John Grogan (starting soon)
As of Today, March 26:
Pages Read: 5,928/23,655 25.06%
Books: 17/50 34%
Pace: 449 pages ahead of projected goal ... ... me to read it ever since he finished it. Finally, he told me that if I would read his book (Left Behind), he would read Marley and Me which I had been trying to get him to read ever since I finished it last year. So, we made a deal, and I'm following through with my end of it. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan -- See
Girls of Tender Age -- Smith
Marley and Me -- Grogan
Twilight Children -- Hayden
The Family That Couldn't Sleep -- Max
The Last of Her Kind -- Nunez
The Kindness of Strangers -- Kittle ... on whether to read American Gods next or start on The Chronicles of Narnia or Dark Elf Trilogy. I also picked up Marley and Me as a nice quick read. There are so many others I need to get started on though. ... to my ever expanding book pile.
I bought:
Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore
Mystic Warrior by Tracy Hickman
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The Dragon's Touchstone by Irene Radford
the sequel to that series by Irene Radford, part of the Dragon Nimbus Histories. I cant recall the ... ... imagination, I'm all for it. I don't push him to read more, although I have told him time and time again that he MUST read Marley and Me because it's such a wonderful book about a dog who's behavior and attitude mirror our dog's. I haven't quite convinced him, though, because he has an idea how ... ... find books on the shelf that would have an unimaginable number of holds on them back in the San Francisco Bay Area - like Marley and Me or Guns, Germs and Steel. If only people here would be less interested in The Omnivore's Dilemma, I'd be set.
The only thing is that the library ... I've been thinking of reading Marley and Me. Now, I will! :)
I'm reading a young adult book called Good Dog. It's quite good. I like that it's from the dog's point of view. The dog refers to books as "staring papers". Ha! I love it! Marley and Me was an amazing book. John Grogan wrote his book like a novel and it read really well too.
My Buttons is 8 years old on December 14th and I think about Marley's story whenever I look at her.
Spoiler, however.
Do not, I repeat, do not finish this book 15 minutes before ... ... rl-McPhee
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Spook by Mary Roach
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Suzanne Clarke
Marley and Me - John Grogan
Gone to the Dogs - Emily Carmichael
Book the 11th: The Grim Grotto: The Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
S ... ... enough ;) Particularly when she hits 'reply all' instead of 'reply sender'.
It's just unacceptable in books though - Marley and Me by John Grogan is a recent example where the editing really annoyed me. And the author is a journalist! I mentioned it in my review, but the author refers ... We recently finished Marley and Me. We took turns reading chapters to each other in bed at night. I would inevitably end up in stitches, laughing until I lost my breath! I'm happy that it had staying power on the bestseller list...it is a delightful read for animal lovers. Go for it, ... I finished Marley and Me by John Grogan---cute and light. And I was surprised to find myself crying at the end, even though the end was no surprise at all--and I'm not a dog owner.
Now I'm starting The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. I'm only a couple chapters into it, but I'm ... I just finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak---what a wonderful story! Now I'm flying through Marley and Me by John Grogan---a light book chosen by our book group following a couple of heavy reads. Just finished McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy.
Continuing with the light-weight theme, and now reading Marley and Me by John Grogan. ... Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert are here
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anyone reading Marley and Me? can't wait til i get my paws on that one :) How about Marley and Me by John Grogan? I absolutely adored that one. In fact, I gave it my Mom and told her she had to force Dad to read it. ;-)
And I'm not ashamed to admit I cried through the last 3 or so chapters. I mean, you have to see it coming, but Grogan did a really good job and ...
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