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It鈥檚 time once a year for my library鈥檚 Winter Reading Challenge and my chance to score a FREEEEEEEE coffee mug. (Yes, I am the cheapest date you could ever imagine.) This year鈥檚 theme????



Basically any book that became a movie or television program. It turns out this is apparently the list of recommended reads I grab onto each year because I had read a bigly portion of the suggested titles (and had less than zero interest in some of the others). I had put A Dog鈥檚 Purpose on the wait list after seeing the preview when I took my kids to see Sing - a movie everyone else apparently loved but I thought was super . . . .



My eternal hold finally ended and it was my turn at the perfect time so I read this book on Day 1 of the challenge. And pretty much looked like . . . . .



The entire flippin鈥� time I was reading.

The story is about a dog who . . .

鈥淲as seized with an inexplicable question, a question of purpose. This didn鈥檛 seem like the sort of thing a dog should think about, but I found myself returning to the issue often. Why? Why did I harder a nagging feeling that as a dog there was something I was supposed to do?鈥�

Which leads to discovering that . . . .

鈥淥f all the things I鈥檇 ever done, making ____________ laugh seemed the most important. It was, I reflected, the only thing that gave my life any purpose.鈥�

And then . . . .



Followed by the dog being reincarnated only to discover . . . .

鈥淭his was, I decided, my purpose as a dog, to comfort the boy whenever he needed me.鈥�

And . . . . .



But not only did the dog provide comfort . . . .

鈥淢y purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy.鈥�

And oh my god . . . . .



Then the dog came back AGAIN and began to question . . . .

鈥淐ould a dog have more than one purpose?鈥�

Leading to . . . .

鈥淚 was a good dog. I had fulfilled my purpose.鈥�

By this point I looked like I had been punched in the face and my family was like . . . .



But the story wasn鈥檛 over yet and I bet Kleenex stock prices went through the ROOF this morning. I don鈥檛 often have emotion (other than happiness and anger), but when I do everyone should watch the eff out.

Please note I realize this is not necessarily a 鈥済ood鈥� book 鈥� it鈥檚 written from a dog鈥檚 point of view so it鈥檚 pretty simple and it definitely is designed to make you feel all of the things, but I give zero shits. I love dogs and I hate almost all people so it worked great for me.

#honeybadgerdontcare #evenrobotscry #trollmeandillcutyou

Book 1 of 5 in my annual quest for a new mug . . . .