That sounds good, The L (Except my dog is called Katie
)
(Perhaps this has earned its own thread?)
Ooh, I have quite a heap of books beside me. Let's see…
… natural philosophy in the way a gentleman should, by digging into any suspicious-looking burial mounds he could find in the neighbourhood, filling up his lizard press with as many rare species as he could collect, and drying samples of any flowers he could find before they became extinct.
What?
Terry Pratchett (Snuff) is obviously not inspiring.
Next book:
I understood neuroanatomically that my motor cortex had been affected and I was fortunate that within a few minutes, the deadness of my right arm abated.
That sounds even worse.
Thank you, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor (My Stroke of Insight) but no thanks.
How about this one:
Chapter 2 showed how the human eye, working by selelctive breeding over many generations, sculpted and kneaded dog flesh to assume a bewildering variety of forms, colours, sizes and behaviour patterns.
Nope, that doesn't seem promising either, thank you Richard Dawkins (The Greatest Show on Earth).
When Andy was a teenager, he freely interacted with adult males.
Hmmm…
No thank you, Temple Grandin (Making Animals Happy; the chapter is about dogs) I think I'll stop there.