Virals, by Kathy Reichs
Virals, by Kathy Reichs One of the genres I like least on television is the myriad clones of CSI and NCIS. I’m not overly fond of cop shows and police procedurals anyway, and the CSI-type shows are...
View ArticleHachi: A Dog’s Tale
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale Directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Richard Gere and Joan Allen So far, I haven’t done any movie reviews on this site — after all, our title is “Books and Beasts” — but I...
View ArticleTwo Dogs In Search of a Master
With all the exciting new technologies at the movies these days — CGI and 3D being the most obvious — I think it might be time to revise my personal list of “Books I’d Love to See Made into Movies”....
View ArticleBrute Strength
Brute Strength by Susan Conant In the first three pages of Susan Conant’s new mystery, Brute Strength, we are introduced to five dogs (three of them Malamutes) and one cat. If that seems to be lot,...
View ArticlePossum Summer
Possum Summer by Jen K. Blom I love possums. And I do realize that not everyone does. (“They look like rats,” is what most people say — a comparison that isn’t really fair to possums or rats.)...
View ArticleA Brace of Dog Memoirs
Behind every so-called coincidence lies a series of connections, some small, some large, that if traced back far enough, lead inevitably to the great source of meaning and purpose in this otherwise...
View ArticleBorn to Bark
Born to Bark by Stanley Coren “For Christmas the woman who would become my wife bought me a dog — a little terrier. The next year her Christmas present to me was a shotgun. Most of the people in my...
View ArticleBest Of 2011
Photo Courtesy of Animal Planet This time of year everyone is coming up with their “Best Of” Lists, so not to be outdone, here at Books and Beasts we’re offering our choices too. If you follow the...
View ArticleRin Tin Tin and the Mystery of the Missing Oscar
Rin Tin Tin Way back in 1929, when the Academy of Motion Picture Artsand Sciences was brand new, they organized the first Oscar presentations. The members of the Academy voted on the (then short)...
View ArticleBait Dog by Chuck Wendig
I have a stack of books in my house — actually, I have several stacks — waiting to be read and reviewed. So when I downloaded Chuck Wendig’s novel Bait Dog on Amazon it was with the plan of adding it...
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