peter mortensen mortensen

Everyone knows that there are some books that people say they just couldn’t put it down. I never met a book like that. I read books I loved, I read books the were informative. But this is absolutely the ONLY book in my 73 years that I literally read start to finish in one Saturday. I love this book more than any other fiction I’ve ever read. And I’m a dog lover who once owned a mixed breed golden retriever; his name was Finnegan. I adoptedhim from the local Humane Society. The very moment we both saw each other, we were in love. I loved Finnegan more than I loved any human in my life except for a very few people and then at that it was a tie between the people and my beloved Finnegan. I became convinced that he truly had a soul, a beautiful soul filled with unconditional love, and no human I’ve ever met can give unconditional love as a dog can. Actually Finnegan convinced me to become a vegetarian because by logic was inescapably led to the conclusion that if Finnegan had a soul, then all other animals also have souls and I was aware of how animals are tortured to provide us with flesh to eat; that fact combined with the discernment that in all likelihood all animals are soul creatures, though it may be difficult to discern the soul in an iguana, but that doesn’t mean the creature is not acquainted with the divine. Alas, we are all born to die and here I am thirty five years later and with exquisite and painful detail I recall his death. I wanted to die. I was insolable and even today the pain can have an iron grip on me. But this book is a must read for animal lovers and be sure to have tissues nearby!