#CatThursday - Post #Christmas and the #NewYear ahead #cats

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I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! The new year is just days away. Wishing you and yours a very happy, prosperous and peaceful 2019. 🎉🎇🎊

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#CatThursday - #Christmas

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Wishing you and yours...and all your fur babies...a very Merry Christmas. May it be merry and bright.

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#CatThursday - #Authors and #Cats (79) Preeti Shenoy

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The second Cat Thursday of each month is Authors and Cats Thursday. Each time I will feature an author with their cat(s), pictured with a cat(s), or guest posts by cat loving authors who also (sometimes) write about cats.

Preeti Shenoy (born December 21, 1971), among the top five highest selling authors in India, is also on the Forbes longlist of the most influential celebrities in India. She is the highest selling woman writer in India. Her work has been translated to many languages.

India Today has named her as being unique for being the only woman in the best-selling league. She has been awarded the ‘Indian of the Year’ award for 2017 by Brands Academy for her contribution to Literature. She has also received the Academia award for Business Excellence by the New Delhi Institute of Management. She is the recipient of the ‘100 Young Indian women Achievers award’ in the Powerful leader category. She has given talks in many premier educational institutions such as IITs and IIMs and corporate organisations like KPMG, Infosys and Accenture. She is also an artist specialising in portraiture and illustrated journalling.

Her short stories and poetry have been published in various magazines such as Conde Nast and Verve. She has been featured on BBC World, Cosmopolitan,The Hindu, Verve, Times of India and many more.

She has a very popular blog and also writes a weekly column in The Financial Chronicle. She has a massive online following. Her other interests are travel, photography and yoga. Her books include A Hundred Little Flames, It’s All In The Planets, Why We Love The Way We Do, The Secret Wish List, The One You Cannot Have and many others. (Goodreads)

The cats in these images are not cats owned by Shenoy, although she has said that cats are drawn to her...“Cats always come to me and are friendly with me. My earliest childhood memory was with a black cat that we used to own,” she told me. “When I travelled to Orissa [now Odisha], India, I came across an interesting custom in a temple, where cats are worshipped." These images, or at least two of them, were taken at the temple she mentioned, Kedar-Gouri Temple.

To tide you over until next week...

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#CatThursday - #Cats in #Art (34) Vintage #Christmas cats

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I just love vintage cat images. As you can see, these were mostly Christmas cards. I think they are wonderful. To me, they are a lost art. 

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#CatThursday - Unhelpful #Cats

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Classics Club Spin 19 #ccspin

The 19th Classics Club Spin! I'm generally a failure at these, but my motto is...Never Give Up, Never Surrender!

Here's what you do...list 20 books from your Classics Club list before Tuesday, November 27. There's a twist this time. The Club is giving us extra time with the stipulation that we compile our list with Chunksters. They will choose a number randomly from 1 - 20 and that number is the one you will read from your list. Fun! The challenge is to read that book by January 31, 2019.

I'm not sure how many chunksters I have on my list, but I will do my best! Here's mine:

1. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
2. Emma, Jane Austen
3. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
4. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
5. Roxana, Daniel Defoe
6. Queen Margot, Alexandre Dumas
7. Villette, Charlotte Bronte
8. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
9. The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne
10. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
11. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
12. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
13. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
14. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
15. The Master of Hestviken, Sigrid Undset
16. Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
17. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
18. The Golden Bowl, Henry James
19. The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
20. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

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#CatThursday - Happy #Thanksgiving #cats

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Wishing you and yours a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

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#CatThursday - Plotting #cats

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Remember...they're always plotting! 

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#CatThursday - #Authors and #Cats (78) Nadine Gordimer

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The second Cat Thursday of each month is Authors and Cats Thursday. Each time I will feature an author with their cat(s), pictured with a cat(s), or guest posts by cat loving authors who also (sometimes) write about cats.

Nadine Gordimer (November 20, 1923 - July 13, 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".

Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as Burger's Daughter and July's People were banned. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organization was banned. She was also active in HIV/AIDS causes.

On her 92nd birthday in 2015, there was even a Google Doodle in her honor featuring the author with her beloved cat. She was a known cat lover.

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