This book took me much longer to read than it should have. I didn’t love it—it was a bit too poetic and sentimental for my current reading mood. ( )

I found this a very difficult read while it was still pretending to be a fairly normal novel. But flying through the air invisibly with a dog goes past what I can stomach. I read over two thirds, but this is too much. ( )

This was an impulse buy for our library -- I read a review somewhere, not here -- and an impulse read for me after a friend read it.

The story is told from the POV of a hospital chaplain, an Episcopal priest who is quite likeable and not at all dogmatic. She is a dog lover. She misses the deceased hospital therapy dog, and even believes she sees his spirit by the tree where his ashes were buried. And she makes friends with the new therapy dog. By night's end, they will share an adventure!

We walk with her through a night shift at the hospital, encountering many and varied people and situations, and sharing her thoughts on life during the quiet times.

She is pondering what to do about a long-distance relationship with a former lover who is overseas studying near-death, out-of-body experiences with a neurologist, when she encounters a man who claimed to have had one -- floating through the hospital when something went wrong during a surgery. She approaches the claim with skepticism.

This is a delightful, thoughtful book that I enjoyed very much. ( )