I’m glad my wife reads the comic strips in the newspaper, because she finds the few funny ones, if there are any at all, and then shows them to me. The one she showed me yesterday reminded me of a book I read quite a while ago. It is called Lives of the Monster Dogs, by Kirsten Bakis. Firstly, that is an excellent title for a book, secondly, I really liked the book, full of descriptions of different kinds of dogs endowed with intelligence and walking upright, fully dressed in human clothes. Wikipedia says she is working on her second novel, but, man since 1997? Here is a New York Times review of the book.
