Things I Only Did Once: Growing up Stories

Reviews of Clark Malcolm Greene’s book, Dog Is God Spelled Backwards: This is one book that I would highly recommend to all ages, and if I were still teaching English, I would be using this in my classroom. Dog Is God Spelled Backwards ranks right up there with To Kill a Mockingbird with Scout, Jem and Bo.” Clark Greene gave me the opportunity to live the love of a puppy, the mischief of a boy with his dog. The love of adventure, the unrecognized hardship of growing up during this period of history and of helping realize how the uniqueness of each and every person in a family molds who we become as a part of that family. There is no one who can read this book and not have some portion of the story hit home…or wish it did.” With an astonishing degree of recall, the author brings us close to early childhood in this celebration of rural living in Michigan in the ’50s and ’60s of the last century. Of all such memoirs we have seen, none has exceeded this one in the portrayal of the triumph and tragedy that comes with getting and losing a cherished dog. An important book.” A book of great adventures and the old-fashioned love between a boy and his best friend, Patch, it opens doors in the many nooks of life before the addiction of technology and social restrictions. A good book to kick-start the memory cells and re-appreciate the simple life of childhood gone by.”Greene, Clark Malcolm is the author of 'Things I Only Did Once: Growing up Stories', published 2007 under ISBN 9781424176106 and ISBN 1424176107.