we could all probably use a break from current events so let's talks about dogs

So this book right here has spend 7 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list

It is currently at number 2 for paperback fiction

It was adapted into a film starring Britt Robertson, Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, Josh Gad and

and a bunch of other fantastic people

The basic premise of the story is that there's this dog who keeps getting reincarnated.

into several different lives

and in each life that he lives he learns a new lesson, and he starts piecing these lessons together

to fulfill this ultimate purpose.

So without further ado, let's jump into my top changes. ALSO Things are gonna get pretty spoilery pretty

quickly, so if you care about that you might wanna leave

The dog's first life is lived as a stray

And in the book he learns this really important lesson from his mom of how to survive

basically on human trash and how to be very stealthy while doing it

And eventually the dog gets picked up with his brother and his mom to this family who's basically dog hoarders

And eventually the hoarding family gets caught and they get busted by the police.

And Toby is euthanized by the dog catchers

In the movie the dog's first life is glossed over. Like, VERY glossed over

It's barely a blip on the screen.

I wish they had shown the lesson that Toby learned from that life, which is

his mom teaching him how to survive without human contact. Cause..

In the dog's final life as Buddy, in the book and in the movie, it's the same, he's kind of

Abandoned by this family and he's trying to find his way back to Ethan

He's trying to smell him out. But in the book it's evident that the dog goes to great lengths to try to avoid

all human contact and not get picked up

And live on the street by himself

until he has enough time that he can figure out where Ethan is

and that was so moving and such a touching love letter to how much Bailey truly loved Ethan

And I felt like the emotional impact of how much the dog was kind of willing to go through to find Ethan

was really touching and a little bit lost in the movie

Number three, Ethan's antagonist - the nemesis to Ethan

So in the book and the movie, Todd is a morally bankrupt arsonist, but in the book he's way way

more twister. From the time they're little kids, Ethan andTodd kind of grow up together

And Todd is basically like Sid from a toy story

Todd blows up his sister's toys

And at one point in the book Todd actually dognaps Bailey and tries to kill him

His little sister steps in and rescues Bailey

But Todd later on successfully kills another neighborhood dog

like, he's so twisted.

So in the movie they took some of Todd's evilness and some of the antagonism that Ethan felt with Todd

and shifted it onto Ethan's dad.

They really amplified any tension that Ethan had with his Dad

And in the book, Ethan and his parents fight. In the movie it was way way worse

They added in that whole epic scene at the farm that culminates in Ethan's dad leaving permanently

And the movie makes it a lot clearer that Ethan's dad

has a debilitating alcohol addiction.

Number four, let's talk about Ethan and Bailey.

Ethan + Bailey = LOVE

Bailey has so much live for Ethan and

in the movie they add a few things in like when

Bailey escapes from the garage to be with Ethan

And with all the shenanigans with the coin collection

Get it out Bailey! Get it out!

In the book when Ethan is staying with his grandparents on their farm he gets left home alone

For just a little bit and he takes the horse and the dog and he goes on this really really long oudoor adventure

And he gets completely lost, like, mega lost

Eventually it gets really bad. They spend the night outside and Bailey actually saves Ethan's life