The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
This year, I set myself a challenge to read 12 books in a year. Then, after 6 months, I realised that I’d reached my target of reading 12 books, and upped my game to 24 books in a year. This is the 14th book I read. My other reviews are also on this blog.
I really liked this book. Really really liked it. I’m a bit of a sucker for a good story, and definitely when there’s an adorable pooch in the plot. When I was little, I had a book called ‘I will always love you’. It was one of those books which explains to kids about pets dying, and how you shouldn’t be too sad about it. That was the gist of the book, but (even though I knew what was coming), I still bawled my eyes out at the end of the book. I’ve welled up just thinking about it now. Looking back, we didn’t even have a dog when I was little, so I’m not entirely sure what they were trying to achieve!
I digress.
In this book, the pooch in question believes that when dogs die, they are reincarnated as human beings, so he’s dedicated his life to learning as much as he can to prepare himself for the next one. The entire book is told from the dog’s perspective and shows how he supports and shapes the lives of the people around him. The book’s got a great symmetry to it, and is a genuinely heart warming story, which will probably (definitely) make you cry.
