Today's featured guests at Coffee with a Canine: Charlaine Harris & Scrunch, Rocky, and Oscar.How did the dogs find their way to Harris' home in Southern Arkansas?
We adopted all of them. Rocky was a puppy; he’s probably eight years old now. The lady who was giving his litter away brought all of them over in her car trunk. W e have no idea how old Oscar is, but he’s a grumpy old man. I found him in the local animal shelter when our priest did a blessing of the animals on St. Francis Day. Scrunch is about three, and a horse had kicked her, crushing her hip. The lady that owned her (I’m gathering) may not have wanted to deal with all the surgery Scrunch...[read on]
Charlaine Harris' books include the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden series, featuring "a diminutive Georgia librarian whose life never turns out quite the way she planned"; the much edgier Shakespeare series -- set not in England, but in rural Arkansas -- featuring "Lily Bard, a tough and taciturn woman whose life has been permanently reshaped by a terrible crime and its consequences"; and the Southern Vampire series, starring a telepathic barmaid called Sookie Stackhouse and her life among vampires and werewolves and other creatures of the night.The Southern Vampire series is the basis for HBO's hit series, True Blood.
Read--Coffee with a Canine: Charlaine Harris & Scrunch, Rocky, and Oscar.
--Marshal Zeringue
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