DOG is GOD Spelled Backwards

DOG is GOD Spelled Backwards
Clark Malcolm Greene
PublishAmerica
ISBN: 1-4137-8778-9
Non-Fiction, Memoir
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

DOG is GOD Spelled Backwards is the author’s memoir of his youth in post World War II America. He describes a simpler time when dogs and boys were inseparable and everyone knew the rules. This is a heartfelt book that shows the lighter aspects of the life and death lessons learned by the author.
It’s so refreshing to read a memoir that doesn’t focus on all the bad things that happened to the author. Life wasn’t always rosy for the author either but nonetheless he grew, learned, and cherished each experience just the same. I particularly enjoyed the author’s exploration and constant recognition of “the rules”.
One of the many Greene House Rules:
“We will ALL sit down together EVERY night for dinner. No matter what. (Even if children were being banished with no dinner, we were required to say grace en masse before the offender’s sentence started.)”
About how the rules were different for boys and girls:
“Temperatures were taken infrequently and pronouncements of well being varied with degree and gender. Girls stayed home at 98.8 but boys were okay until the red line reached past 103.9…”