February 5, 2026

This is a Good Book Thursday: The Doubtful Guest

I tripped across a book I once had and loved a long time ago: Edward Gorey’s The Doubtful Guest.  One of the reasons I loved it at the time was that the Guest looked so much like my dog Wolfie, but it was also just delightful on so many levels.  The Guest was as clueless as Wolfie was in real life, and the hosts were as patient and equally confused as I was in real life.  So I bought it again and read it again and loved it again.  Just a few minutes of unadulterated pleasure with some warm memories of a fine, fine dog.

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