What an Animal! Challenge (7/1/08-6/30/09)

Hosted by Kristi

1. The White Raven (Diana Paxson)
2. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff (Christopher Moore)
3. Finding Fish (Antwone Q. Fisher)
4. Fifty Acres and a Poodle (Jeane Marie Laskas)
5. Dragon Queen (Alice Borchardt)
6. The Daisy Sutra (Helen Weaver)

4 of these are crossing over with other challenges.
I'll hotlink these to their respective review posts as I publish them.

Another low-productivity day

Slept in and had a nap. Sold Sombrea (the momma donkey); sounds like her kids are missing her. Read a little bit of The Perfect Storm. Wanted to get more writing done, but I guess that will have to wait until tomorrow.

#34--Bad Dog, by R.D. Rosen, et al

I found this at a garage sale last month, and hadn’t really planned to read it anytime soon, but last night, I had an itch that couldn’t be relieved with anything that I should be reading.

“278 outspoken, indecent, and overdressed dogs” grace these pages, and several of them made me laugh out loud. Some are in store-bought/ready-made costumes, others in adapted human-wear, and others are simply “in” whatever they got into (like toothpaste). Each dog’s hobby is also included; none of them seem to match their costume, and include:

admiring rock gardens
barking in tongues
designing rubber toys
Motown historian
belly dancing
scrimshaw

From the back cover:
“Mans best friend? Think again. Behind those loving eyes and wagging tail lurks a very different dog. A dog with a dark side. A bad dog.
Here, in all their glory, are hundreds of bad dogs, with bad tempers and bad breath.
Smart-asses, stoners, thugs, cranks, lechers, hellions… makes you wonder what your pet’s really burying in the backyard.”