Wednesday, November 14, 2012

My Life as a Golden Retriever

My Life as a Golden Retriever
by Bentley the Golden Retriever

SUMMARY:
When a legally deaf and blind spice gardener also loses his ability to love, it's up to Bentley to teach him how to fertilize the soil of life to make hope grow again. A life-affirming memoir about old dogs learning new tricks, from Pennypack Books, available in bookstores everywhere August 28.

EXCERPT
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No Resale

CHAPTER 5
Learning to Roll Over

WOOF WOOF WOOF RUFF. RUFF RUFF WOOF RUFF BARK. BARK.
BENTLEY. BENTLEY. Bentley. RUFF!
BARK BARK GRRRRR, WUF?
WUF. Wuf.

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GRRR HOWL AWOO BARK BARK. BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK WOOF.
BENTLEY GOOD. BARK!
WOOF woof WUF RUFF.
RUFF, RUFF BARK.

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WARUF WOOF BARK BARK WOOF. BARK? Wurf Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Wurf.
GGGRrrrr. HOWL? Bentley. Bentleyyyyy?
WUF! WUF! WUF! . . .  WUF! Wuf? BARK BARK BARK—
BARK!

Available in bookstores everywhere August 28.

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  3. Just finished reading the bound galley. My favorite chapter was A Long Night Tied to the Tire Swing.

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  4. This book really made me paws and consider life.

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  5. I thought it was weird at the end when the gardener burns Bentley's dead body on a Viking funeral pyre.

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  6. The book was okay, but I wish the dog had been a cat, and I wish the deaf blind gardener had been an impotent narcoleptic tour guide. I guess that would be a different book though.

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  7. There's no way the dog actually wrote this. I don't believe it.

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  8. Sorry you don't believe in magic anymore, Dave! The world must be a pretty cold, sad place for you.

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  9. Thanks for the reminder that dog stereotypes still exist, Dave.

    My mistake though, I should know better than to read the comments on these things.

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