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Loading... Dogs and Goddessesby Jennifer Crusie, Lani Diane Rich (Author), Anne Stuart (Author)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) SharonMariaBidwell | Feb 23, 2023 |   ) readingover50 | Jun 11, 2019 |  ) BONS | Oct 30, 2017 |  ) phyllis2779 | Aug 29, 2017 | Good dogs. God-like powers is nice. Attractive new love interests is also nice. But good dogs and good friends are the really important stuff. Another in a slew of super fun books. Also shared with the daughter. Library copy. (  ) Kaethe | Oct 17, 2016 |
 Dogs And Goddesses By Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart, and Lani Diane Rich Published by St. Martin’s Press, 2009 Review by Debra Louise Scott You bake cookies and suddenly an orgy breaks out all around you. You click your Bic pen and stuff just ‘happens’ to people. Painting your kitchen gives you an orgasm. And, oh yeah, the dogs are talking to you. No, I mean really, they’re TALKING! To badly paraphrase a song: Who let the Gods out? Woof, woof, woof, woof! Dogs And ¬¬¬¬Goddesses is somewhat akin to Neil Gaiman’s American Gods at least from the standpoint of ancient deities living ordinary lives and having to work their way around modern conventions and conveniences. But whereas Gaiman’s gods are schlepping around America with their own agenda, using the protagonist like a pawn in their game, the three main characters of this story have to deal with deity inside their heads competing for control over daily life in an otherwise sleepy college town. When a Goddess from Mesopotamia (a fictional contemporary of Ishtar) is called into being at the site of a transplanted Ziggurat, aided and abetted by a family that has remained loyal to her from ancient times, the three women find themselves caught up in a war of divine proportions. The Goddess, accompanied by her retinue of dogs, tries to set up her temple like it used to be in the old days, but times have changed and it’s not so easy to get people to worship and swear blind allegiance anymore. She’s not pleased and unleashes divine mayhem. The Three along with their dogs go through a great trial and error period learning to control the heritage they discover inside themselves, a good part of which is an eroticism of mythological proportions! It takes all of that and a sacrificial God to turn the tables on the Ziggurat Goddess. This cleverly written book is a fun read, and will ring bells of recognition to anyone in the esoteric arts who has experienced the odd sensation of having deity ‘in your head’ in the form of ritual invocation or as some traditions would say, ‘riding’. It’s especially fun for dog-lovers, hearing the canine perspective of the human’s world.
Abby has just arrived in Summerville, Ohio, with her placid Newfoundland, Bowser. She's reluctantly inherited her grandmother's coffee shop, but it's not long before she's brewing up trouble in the form of magical baked goods and steaming up her life with an exasperating college professor. And then there's Daisy, a web code writer, and her hyperactive Jack Russell, Bailey. Her tightly-wound world spins out of control when she discovers the chaos within and meets a mysterious dog trainer whose teaching style is definitely hands-on. Finally there's Shar, professor of ancient history at Summerville College, who wakes up one morning to find her neurotic dachshund, Wolfie, snarling at an implacable god sitting at her kitchen table, the first thing in her life she hasn't been able to footnote. What on earth is going on in this unearthly little town? It's up to Abby, Daisy, and Shar to find out before an ancient goddess takes over Southern Ohio, and they all end up in the apocalyptic doghouse… No library descriptions found. 
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