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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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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ReplyDeleteJust finished reading the bound galley. My favorite chapter was A Long Night Tied to the Tire Swing.
ReplyDeleteThis book really made me paws and consider life.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was weird at the end when the gardener burns Bentley's dead body on a Viking funeral pyre.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
ReplyDeleteThere's no way the dog actually wrote this. I don't believe it.
ReplyDeleteSorry you don't believe in magic anymore, Dave! The world must be a pretty cold, sad place for you.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder that dog stereotypes still exist, Dave.
ReplyDeleteMy mistake though, I should know better than to read the comments on these things.