A book that became a movie

A book that became a movie

Title: Must Love Dogs
Author: Claire Cook
Publication date: 2002

In January 2012, four friends/coworkers/fellow writers and I started a book club. (You can read that story at my friend Jill's site.) We called ourselves Must Love Dogs because, well we do, and our initial bonding occurred over stories of our dogs. It was convenient that it is also the name of a book, though one none of us had read.

This January, having availed myself of a Kindle Daily Deal to purchase the book in 2014, I set about to read Must Love Dogs. My short review to my book club girls was, "It was a'ight."

Must Love Dogs is the story of Sarah Hurlihy a relatively newly divorced 40-something whose big Irish-American family is encouraging her to "get out there again." The Hurlihy clan is central to the story and I found their interactions with one another to be real and engaging.

I was a bit disenchanted when I set about reading the book and discovered it had been turned into a series. Given I am still mourning Augustus Waters and would like to chat with the characters from The Invention of Wings, the fact that I'm not eager to read the other books in the series speaks volumes about the book or so I think.

Enough said.

Two stars

Next challenge: A book a friend recommended