My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir

This book was long and repetitive. We follow the life of Tia Torres, an animal rescuer who specializes in wolves, wolf-hybrids and pitbulls. Each chapter is dedicated to one pittbull that she adopted, and we learn all about their personalities, quirks, and back stories. The issue is that each chapter reads like a stand-alone story, and we get introduces to their life setting over and over again. I think we got a description of their move to Louisiana 7 or 8 times. It was that repetitive.

The other thing that bothered me if that the author can be quite judgmental. She criticizes how judgmental her “middle- to upper-class” neighbors are, while being quite judgmental herself: “These particular people have more skeletons in their own closets than probably the entire valley, yet they love to gossip and spread horrible rumors about others. This is especially bad among the women who spend their time sleeping with other women's husbands and shoving cocaine up their noses while judging everyone else's behavior”.

All in all, we can tell that she is a tough person and that she absolutely adores each and every single one of her dogs, always placing their needs first, but I wish I could have learned more about the rescue itself, especially in Louisiana.