Thursday, April 30, 2020

#CatThursday - Rosa Silva's Get Your Butt Off My Face #Review


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.

This week I'm reviewing Get Your Butt Off My Face by a good friend of Cat Thursday, Rosa Silva from Cat Lady Confidential.



Get Your Butt Off My Face is a funny bedtime book for all the desperate cat owners out there. If you have experienced the nightmare of having a cat that loves shoving its butts in your face, this is the book for you. This laugh-out-loud book reveals cats at their wackiest and performing their most exasperating behavior. It’s the perfect gift for crazy cat lovers who appreciate hilarious insights into the feline nature.

“Get Your Butt Off My Face” is now officially available on Amazon.

My thoughts
What cat parent has not despaired of the dreaded cat-butt-in-face. I mean, who can forget this famous image which graces countless memes on the internet...


As usual, the shenanigans of the cat are regaled in clever rhymes and funny anecdotes. Such as...
"I then realize the house is a mess.
You've been partying all day, I guess.
There's cat hair everywhere
even on my fresh underwear!"
Isn't that the truth! 

Finally, what I've come to expect from Rosa's books...the fantastic illustrations by Diana Necsulescu. They add so much to the story. The facial expressions on both the cat mom (horror) and the cat (absolute satisfaction and smugness) are priceless. 

Anyone looking for a pick-me-up in their day should definitely read this book. Loads of fun for cat lovers and really anyone looking for a short, fun read.

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Rosa Silva is an author and a self-confessed book nerd with a soft spot for cats. She blogs about cats and books at Cat Lady Confidential.

Read my reviews of Rosa's other books:

Stop Meowing and Go the F*ck to Sleep



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Friday, April 24, 2020

Dewey’s 24-Hour #Readathon - Tomorrow!



I have cleared my schedule this year for the readathon. Plus, with social distancing, I'll not be going anywhere so this just might be a success. That being said, I'm not getting overly ambitious with my reading goals. My main focus will be to finish this book...


If I finish that one, I'll start on this one...


I'll be updating on Instagram. Also, on Goodreads in my Seasons of Reading group. My Spring into Horror Readathon is going on right now through April 30th.

I'll post my wrap-up here on the blog...if I don't flake. You never know with me.



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Thursday, April 23, 2020

#CatThursday - #Cats in #Art (43) Leonora Carrington


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.


Les Chats, 1940


Warning Mother



Cats, 1953


Transference (detail) 1963


Three Cats

Leonora Carrington was featured in Authors and Cats this month. Check out the post here, where she's pictured with cats of her own. A true cat lover. 


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Friday, April 17, 2020

The Classics Club Spin (23) #ccspin


In case you don't know about what the spin entails...

  • Pick twenty books that you've got left to read from your Classics Club List.
  • Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before Sunday 19th April.
  • We'll announce a number from 1-20. 
  • Read that book by 1st June 2020.
More info on The Classics Club here.

My Spin List (chosen using random.org)

1. Roxana, Daniel Defoe
2. Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
3. The Courage to Write, Ralph Keyes
4. The Faith of a Writer, Joyce Carol Oates
5. Villette, Charlotte Bronte
6. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
8. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
9. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
10. The Collector, John Fowles
11. The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp
12. The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
13. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
14. Emma, Jane Austen
15. On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner
16. The Writing of Fiction, Edith Wharton
17. If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland
18. Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin
19. Take Joy, Jane Yolen
20. The Sylph, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire





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Thursday, April 16, 2020

#CatThursday - The Hobbies of #Cats


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Weekly check-in...hope you are all staying safe and healthy. 







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Thursday, April 9, 2020

#CatThursday - #Authors and #Cats (93) Leonora Carrington


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.

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



Leonora Carrington (b. April 6, 1917 - d. May 25, 2011) was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the 
Women’s Liberation Movement 
in Mexico during the 1970s.

(The next Cats in Art post, I will feature some of her cat paintings.)






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Thursday, April 2, 2020

#CatThursday - #Cats ...they don't want us at home


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Trying to provide more giggles as we weather this storm. Stay well, friends.









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