City of Topeka Announces New Book Club for Dogs!

We all know how popular book clubs are becoming. Your mom is in one, your daughter and your sister too. Then the men got in on the act. Well now it's time for the dogs.

The people of Topeka decided a city wide book club was a great idea, but they wanted to take it one step further. To the dogs. The idea was that reading a book together once a month would bond the city's dogs and help keep the angry early morning barking to a minimum. They also felt a doggie book club (tentatively called "Yes We Read") would help with the whole idea of re-use. First the human reads the book, and then they lend it to the dog - or sometimes the reverse.

Overall the dogs have been wagging their tails over the plan and are looking forward to getting together to discuss their first pick, The Art of Racing in the Rain later this month.

Using the new Google Translate for Animals App, spokesdog, Fluffy Frank raised some concerns over the lack of opposable thumbs, but the for the most part the community seems satisfied with receiving page turning aid from their humans. For those whose humans are too busy, the Kindle has been the answer.

Selections under consideration for upcoming months are Must Love Dogs, Marley & Me and The Call of the Wild.

For more information on starting a doggie book club in your town email me at dana@bookreporter.com. Or don't.

Happy April 1st!

--Dana Barrett, Contributing Editor