Today, April 13, 2011, marks the FOURTH anniversary of Champion of My Heart. Forget “dog years,” I believe this makes us downright ancient in blog years. As part of our celebration, I’m writing to ask for your help. Happy Tails Books, owned and operated by Be the Change Royalty Kyla Duffy, invited me and Lilly to share ONE best-of blog post in a book of stories by top pet bloggers (a charity project). And, I cannot decide which of our many posts to pick, polish, and submit.
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Justine van der Leun‘s new book Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl about Love essentially ends with Justine and Marcus getting on a plane in Italy to return to a non-existent home stateside. As I mentioned in yesterday’s book review, while I liked the book a lot, what intrigued me more was what happened next. So, Justine and I spent a good hour or more on the phone Monday, talking about Marcus and how she learned to live in a modern, urban world.
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In Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl about Love, fellow freelance writer Justine van der Leun tells her tale of fleeing a magazine job in New York City for a much-needed fling with a hot guy in the Italian countryside. Amid her many stranger-in-a-strange-land adventures, the true love story unfolds between Justine and a field-bred, English Pointer that she names MARCUS before realizing the sad, neglected dog she found is a GIRL.
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