Starter Dog, Rona Maynard
Starter Dog, Rona Maynard
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Starter Dog
My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World

Author: Rona Maynard

Narrator: Rona Maynard

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 04/18/2023

Synopsis

An irresistible tale of reluctant dog ownership full of heart, humor, and wisdom Rona Maynard wants to love her life again. Stuck in the what-next doldrums after quitting a big job, she needs a new bridge to the world. So, well into their married life, she lets her husband talk her into their first dog, a rescue mutt named Casey. Rona frets about shedding, lost travel opportunities, and arguments about walking duty. She doubts she can love a dog. But when Casey romps through her door, Rona falls hard. Over time he gives her what no human could — a new way of seeing and a pathway to the heart of a moment. Her downtown neighborhood reveals its true face as she explores it with Casey, making new friends and discovering hidden beauty spots. She learns to have adventures on her own stomping ground. Through Casey, Rona falls in love with the world and her place in it, an animal among other animals.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eileen on February 21, 2023

Rona Maynard’s new memoir, Starter Dog, is not your typical book about a dog. Casey, the canine protagonist, is not the smartest mutt in the kennel. He doesn’t run, like Lassie, to tell his humans Timmy has fallen down a well. Rona and her husband Paul are cultured, literary people. I had to look up......more

Goodreads review by Mahinui on May 15, 2023

Rona Maynard is a latecomer to bonding with a dog. Casey changes her world. It takes a stellar writer to turn a love affair with a dog into a book you look forward to each time you pick it up as you would your morning coffee. She weaves the love story into a rhapsody at once familiar and so new. By......more

Goodreads review by Jo on March 14, 2023

Oh good boy Casey! Spoiler don’t worry, the dog doesn’t die. To be completely frank, this book brought me so much more than I expected, although, what I expected I’m not wholly sure. Rona Maynard writes and narrates a beautiful memoir style book about how the dog that she wasn’t entirely sure she wa......more

Goodreads review by Linda on October 13, 2023

"I'm also Casey's human." As a dog lover reading the absolutely joyous memoir Starter Dog: My Path To Joy, Belonging And Loving This World by reflective author Rona Maynard was a delightful treat. Rona, in her 60s, newly retired, is looking for her next chapter. Her husband of 40 years, Paul, is once......more

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