There are some books you don’t really read… you sit with them. And sometimes, without warning, they take you somewhere you didn’t plan to go. While reading Thinking of Winter by Shantanu Naidu, I found myself drifting back—not to a memory I had forgotten, but to one I had quietly kept aside. Lancer. A German Shepherd who never needed words to be understood. That’s the space this book occupies. Not dramatic. Not loud. Just deeply present. At its surface, the narrat