The humor is perfectly deployed and never too heavy. The End of Something Wonderful walks the line between serious and reassuring, and light and funny, which I think is much needed. It’s a fine book, but maybe some variety is good, too. When previous animals died I read my kids The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Voirst because that was what I read 30 years ago (ahem, more like 36 years ago) when my pets died. He is still our Something Wonderful, even if he is currently more the lying in a dog bed kind of wonderful than the running around and chewing on sticks kind. I know he is not long for this world, and I also know that my kids will be devastated when he does finally die. I saw this book somewhere in the Twitterverse and preordered it a million years because my dog is old (16) and blind and has tumors and Cushing’s disease. TBR Tuesday: The End of Something Wonderful: A Practical Guide to a Backyard Funeral by Stephanie V.W.
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