Posts Tagged ‘dogoir’

Book Review: Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron & Bret Witter


01 Nov

Dewey is not the story of a cat. It is the story of librarian and co-writer Vicki Myron. There is nothing wrong with this. The “dogoir”, as it’s come to be called, is hugely popular form of memoir that uses a dog as it’s focal point. Dewey is a “catoir”.

It was an easy to read book, and I love animals, so stories about them engage me. In person I probably would have been one of Dewey’s fans, however, the book just wasn’t that interesting to me. Not every pet, not even ones lots of people love, needs a book.

“Dogoirs”


01 Dec

They’re called “dogoirs”, and they’re all the rage. I thought they were books about people and dogs. The article title references Steinbeck, and talks about some modern “dogoirs” but skips my two favorite authors of this genre.

James Herriot: For an animal lover, all his books are worth reading, but Dog Stories is the one I love best.

Jon Katz: I’d argue that more than Marley and Me’s author John Grogan, Katz started the current trend of life with a dog books. A Dog Year, his second work to feature his dogs, came out in 2002, three years before Marley.

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