Book Review

The book I am reviewing this week is entitled "Weekends With Daisy" written by Sharron Luttrell.  In this book, the author tells about her time as a weekend puppy raiser.   As the book begins, Mrs. Luttrell finds herself without a dog and wanting one badly.  She happens to see a service dog in training at the grocery store, and she make inquiries as to how she can become a volunteer puppy raiser for a service dog organization.  The group that the author becomes a part of  works with prisoners to help train the dogs during the week.  The weekend puppy raisers then come to the prison and take the dogs home for the weekend so that they can receive proper socialization in the community and with a family.

The first dog that the author takes for the weekends doesn't work out very well.  Then the author is matched with a Labrador named Daisy who is being trained by a prisoner.  Most of the book details the training that Mrs. Luttrell and Daisy take part in.  Much of the book is also concerned with the discovery that the author made about the crime committed by the prisoner who is helping to train Daisy.  She wants to understand what would lead a man who cares so much about Daisy to commit a violent crime.

I won't give away the ending.  I really enjoyed this book the more I read it.  I thought that it was slow reading at first, but the book gets better as it goes along. 

On Friday I will post the Weekend Sermon.  Next week, I will have a review of the dog fiction book entitled "An Unexpected Grace".