Matthew Gilbert
Auteur van Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park
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Matthew Gilbert is the TV critic at The Boston Globe, where he also covered books and movies. He has written for Slate, served as the managing editor of Boston Review, and clerked at Harvard Book Store. He lives in Brookline, Mass., and Off the Leash is his first book.
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Matthew's writing style is great. It was easy to follow his innocent adventures into this new and somewhat scary for him area of loving a dog. It was fun for me to read about his angst, because I have never had that issue. Dogs are my friends. I wave to them when I see them looking at me. Dogs have hugged me. If I am not with kids, you can find me with the dogs. There have been times when I am surrounded by both simultaneously; those are lovely times. So to think that someone is afraid of a dog or has never had a dog in their lives, is new. I love how he fell in love with Toby.
So, back to the guilt. Maybe the dog park isn't my thing with my dog. She is my partner in the garden. I trim and she bites off low limbs. I pull weeds, she eats the grass like a baby cow. We wander around the garden together. Sometimes we just sit. In the garden. Dirt is okay. We get it.
Another place we bond is in the kitchen. What can I say? She is a fan of my cooking (perhaps my only fan)! But she is enthusiastic and very encouraging of all my cooking endeavors. She is awesome, except when laying right where I need to be, but I manage.
I plan on looking up Matthew and keeping an eye on him. If he was at my dog park, I would definitely go. We could be friends.
Very touching stories; some dogs do die, but Matthew has such a great view of this too. I love the one about the perfectly happy single guy who makes a frozen pizza for one of the park people whose daughter dies. There is a caring, connected feeling with these people and their dogs that join them.
Keep writing Matthew! P.S. Hug Toby for me!
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