Posted by Roxanne Hawn | Posted in Dog Book Review, Giveaway | Posted on 29-06-2010
Big congrats and thanks for playing along to Laura, Lance, and Vito from The Dogs are Really in Charge. They won our Marcus of Umbria giveaway. On their blog, they tell all sorts of stories about their mixed family that includes a corgi (that’s Lance), a toller pup (that’s Vito), FIVE ferrets and a cat named Like. Oh, and did we mention that there’s now a service puppy in training in da house? That’d be Chuck (a chocolate lab, who is just too cute).
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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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