She fusses over Scout like a helicopter parent, ruefully noting, “Henry and I used books the same way our parents had turned to Dr. Abramson was recovering from depression and injuries suffered when a truck ran over her, so it’s impossible to begrudge her the luxuries, but the Occupy Wall Street crowd is unlikely to embrace this memoir. Based on her popular blog, The Puppy Diaries (Times, $22) is “part memoir, part manual, part investigative report.” When Scout pees on their bed, it’s a Swedish Duxiana mattress and the boots she chews are Lucchese. The executive editor of the New York Times was still mourning the loss of her stubborn, beloved Westie, but her husband fell in love with a friend’s British standard retriever, and soon a puppy named Scout joined the empty nesters. For everyone else, here are four titles about how dogs, especially the ornery ones, can transform a life.ġ Jill Abramson didn’t want a new dog. Those cursed with obedience-school stars who have never chewed through a pair of prescription glasses or leapt from a second-story window to greet a passing Rottweiler, take heart: You always have your own neuroses and foibles to mine. Take James Thurber’s “ The Dog That Bit People” - a classic of the genre. So noted John Grogan, author of “ Marley & Me,” and it’s hard to argue with the results. If you want to write a good dog book, it helps to have a bad dog.
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