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Candida Pugh

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About my memoir, My Life in Dog Years

I fell in love with dogs when I was a young kid. Since the first pup, Scrappy, I’ve owned countless dogs. Literally, I cannot count the number. In this memoir, I tell the stories of the most memorable among my beautiful pets. It’s funny and sad and nutty in places because I’m nutty in places. Well, not all places. Anyway, it’s gotten some good reviews. Heads up: It does involve an incident of childhood sexual trauma. But you could skip that. ;-)

My permanent home is Oakland, CA.

Average rating: 4.04 · 55 ratings · 17 reviews · 5 distinct works
Bridge of the Single Hair

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Women Who Run With the Poodles

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Two Weeks in Madrid (Lucky Me)


The trouble started before we left Oakland, California. I bought a OneSimCard for my iPhone and another for Charles’s economy phone, purchased a few years ago, when we were in Holland. Two days before takeoff, we tried them out. Neither phone would ring when we followed the dialing instructions on the Web site.
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Well written but slow

The characters are fully developed and individualized but they didn't interest me. The first three quarters of the book dragged. I had to make myself go back to it again and again.
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(I think this is a bit of a spoiler, but not much.) The characters come off the page and the story makes itself at home inside you. That accounts for the sole defect (for me). I had to skim through some parts because I was so engag
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