I picked this up based on recommendations in the media thinking it would be like Marley and Me and My Dog Skip. I like those books, so that would have been fine with me.

But You Had Me at Woof is different. The subtitle indicates that it has some life lessons in it. Those are not heavy-handed, and they arise naturally from the dog situations described in the book. Good stuff.

I laughed out loud in a couple of places, but this book's goal isn't non-stop hilarity. It's more thoughtful than that.

As you can tell, I'm trying to pigeonhole this book and not doing a very good job.

You will like You Had Me at Woof if you're a dog person. Let's just leave it at that.