Thursday, May 16, 2024
Cat Thursday - Cats are weird (3)
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Cat Thursday: Authors and Cats (129) Iris Murdoch
The second Cat Thursday of each month is Authors and Cats Thursday. Each time I will feature an author, pictured with their/a cat(s), or guest posts by cat loving authors who also (sometimes) write about cats.
Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to change her text. Murdoch produced 26 novels in 40 years, the last written while she was suffering from Alzheimer disease.
"She wanted, through her novels, to reach all possible readers, in different ways and by different means: by the excitement of her story, its pace and its comedy, through its ideas and its philosophical implications, through the numinous atmosphere of her own original and created world--the world she must have glimpsed as she considered and planned her first steps in the art of fiction." (John Bayley in Elegy for Iris, 1998)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Mur...
Source: Goodreads
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Cat Thursday - Don't try me
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Cat Thursday - Reality
Friday, April 19, 2024
Classics Club Spin #37
And the spin landed on #8...The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. I should have no problem finishing this by June 2nd.
I finished the last Spin (glory be) so why not try again...
What is the spin?
At your blog, before next Sunday 21st April, 2024 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.
For full details and to join in, visit the Classics Club blog here.
Here's my list:
- Collected Works (short stories), Algernon Blackwood
- Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
- The Collector, John Fowles
- Grendel, John Gardner
- The Witch of Ravensworth, George Brewer
- The Centaur, Algernon Blackwood
- Viy, Nicolai Gogol
- The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
- The Centaur, Algernon Blackwood
- The Devils of Loudun, Aldous Huxley
- The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
- In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires, McNally & Florescu
- The Human Chord, Algernon Blackwood
- Werewolf, Montague Summers
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- Taras Bulba, Nikolai Gogol
- Collected Works (short stories), Nicolai Gogol
- Complete Ghost Stories, M.R. James
- Hard Times, Charles Dickens
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Cat Thursday - You're not the boss of me!
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Cat Thursday: Authors and Cats (128) Elizabeth Bishop, Poet
The second Cat Thursday of each month is Authors and Cats Thursday. Each time I will feature an author, pictured with their/a cat(s), or guest posts by cat loving authors who also (sometimes) write about cats.
I've learned of so many authors and poets I otherwise might not have known about if not searching for authors and cats for these posts.
Poet Elizabeth Bishop is one of them. Turns out, she was a great lover of cats. Her childhood cat was named Minnow. Serendipity! I also had a cat named Minnow when I was a child. I love poetry so I will definitely be seeking out her works.
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