
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Cat Thursday - Happy National Kitten Day

Thursday, June 26, 2025
Cat Thursday - We're fabulous!
Images obtained from: https://cheezburger.com/40758021/21-pictures-of-dramatic-diva-cats-who-demand-the-red-carpet-treatment

Friday, June 13, 2025
Classics Club Spin #41
What is the spin?
At your blog, before Sunday, June 15 create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain "to be read" on your Classics Club list.
This is your Spin List.
You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the spin period.
On Sunday, June 15, we'll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List by August 24, 2025.
For full details and to join in, visit the Classics Club blog here.
My list
- The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, Algernon Blackwood
- The Human Chord, Algernon Blackwood
- In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires, Raymond T. McNally, Radu R. Florescu
- A Room with A View, E.M. Forster
- Grendel, John Gardner
- Orlando, Virginia Woolf
- Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
- The Werewolf, Montague Summers
- Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Nikolai Gogol
- The Collector, John Fowles
- Viy, Nikolai Gogol
- Vampires and Vampirism, Montague Summers
- The Witch of Ravensworth, George Brewer
- Some Dogmas of Religion, J.M.E. McTaggart
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
- The Centaur, Algernon Blackwood
- The Devils of Loudun, Aldous Huxley
- The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
- Taras Bulba, Nikolai Gogol
- Hard Times, Charles Dickens
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Cat Thursday - Kittens being kittens

Thursday, May 29, 2025
The Eulogist by Terry Gamble - Review
This was a very good historical novel. A story of Irish immigrants to America in the decades before the Civil War. A tale of family, of the inhumane enterprise of slavery, abolition, and of human nature. Olivia was a very likable character for me. I enjoyed her telling of the story and I appreciated her unwillingness to believe what everyone else believed when it came to religion. In a conversation with her future husband, he said this to her: "It is one thing to stand in opposition to Christianity as you have done. Another altogether to truly understand people too compromised to worry about the condition of their souls. If there is a God--and like you, I wonder--would He not want us to turn our efforts toward saving each other rather than madly fretting if we ourselves are saved?" Later on, her brother says this to her in a letter: "But it is in human flesh they mostly deal...the trading of which would curdle your blood. I tell you, Livvie. It's as if these people had no heart or mind or sense of pain. I would deny that this was the very country to which we came so long ago, and with the highest of expectations."
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Cat Thursday - Cats are weird (4)

Thursday, May 8, 2025
Cat Thursday - Mother's Day

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