Read by Michael Urie.
Talk about a one-two punch to the feels! I was not ready. Until I finished this novel, I didn't realize I had already read another Rowley novel, which also dealt with death. I could not stop reading this novel. Anyone who has ever felt love for a pet needs to read this novel. I felt such a connection to this character, especially since I have gone through a very similar experience. The way that Rowley gently introduces the situation and treats it with such gentle humor and sincerity strikes right to the heart. I truly fell in love with Lily and Ted. Urie's reading is wonderful - it's my second Urie book with an octopus - but he knows what he's doing. I laughed. I teared up. I might have to read it again at some point.
5/5
Quotes:
Talk about a one-two punch to the feels! I was not ready. Until I finished this novel, I didn't realize I had already read another Rowley novel, which also dealt with death. I could not stop reading this novel. Anyone who has ever felt love for a pet needs to read this novel. I felt such a connection to this character, especially since I have gone through a very similar experience. The way that Rowley gently introduces the situation and treats it with such gentle humor and sincerity strikes right to the heart. I truly fell in love with Lily and Ted. Urie's reading is wonderful - it's my second Urie book with an octopus - but he knows what he's doing. I laughed. I teared up. I might have to read it again at some point.
5/5
Quotes:
- "I have to be better about living in the not-knowing."
- "I guess I just don't have the killer instinct. Lily always makes fun of me when I want to be the wheelbarrow or the shoe. She considers these the game pieces of weak, feckless players. She always wants to be the cannon or the battleship or the 'shot glass' (I haven't had the heart to tell her she's been playing that piece upside-down and it's actually the thimble. She would be furious if she ever found out)."
- "I don't know where the rage first takes root - my heart, my gut, my brain, my soul - but it has been metastasizing over the four days since the octopus first came calling."
- "My heart sinks to depths normally reserved for my stomach and it becomes difficult to think or breathe."
- "Monday's always Monday, but at least it's the start of something new. Wednesday is 'hump day.' Thursday's almost Friday, and Friday brings the weekend, but Tuesday? Nada."
- "'Yours is, by far the harder lot, but mine is happening to me.'"
- "A heart is judged not by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others."
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