Cat Thursday - Cats in art (46)

Welcome to the twice a month (on the second and fourth Thursday) feature that celebrates the wonders and often hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite cat meme 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! If you would like to join in, share the link to your post with your comment below.

Girl with Cat

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

1902

Honorable Mr. Cat

Helen Hyde, born Lima, NY 1868-died Pasadena, CA 1919

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Hyde Gillette in memory of Mabel Hyde Gillette and Edwin Fraser Gillette

1903

Cat in Eakins's Yard

Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

(c. 1880-1890)

Mary Elizabeth Francis, the Artist's Daughter

John F. Francis, born Philadelphia, PA 1808-died Jeffersonville, PA 1886

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift in memory of Grace Brereton Sturtevant, the artist's great niece

ca. 1840

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Celebrating 16 years of True Book Addict!!

Another year in the books!

What a worthwhile experience it has been...starting out blogging here and gradually branching out to running a full online reading community. My reading group on Goodreads, my horror blog, Castle Macabre (which will celebrate 14 years on August 16th), my readathon site, Seasons of Reading, and my reading community hub for the reading challenges I host, Gather Together and Read.

If you're new to my site, check down in the sidebar and you will see graphics linking to the moving parts of the reading community I mentioned above. (I've also linked them above.)

I have met some fantastic people and made lifelong friends through this blogging journey. I wouldn't change a thing!

To everyone who has been here since the beginning, and to those who came after, thank you for letting me share with you through the years. 💙💙💙

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Cat Thursday - More cats? The struggle is real

Welcome to the twice a month (on the second and fourth Thursday) feature that celebrates the wonders and often hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite cat meme 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! If you would like to join in, share the link to your post with your comment below.

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Cat Thursday - Happy National Kitten Day

Welcome to the twice a month (on the second and fourth Thursday) feature that celebrates the wonders and often hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite cat meme 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! If you would like to join in, share the link to your post with your comment below.

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Cat Thursday - We're fabulous!

Welcome to the twice a month (on the second and fourth Thursday) feature that celebrates the wonders and often hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite cat meme 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! If you would like to join in, share the link to your post with your comment below.

Images obtained from: https://cheezburger.com/40758021/21-pictures-of-dramatic-diva-cats-who-demand-the-red-carpet-treatment

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Classics Club Spin #41

And the spin landed on #11....Viy by Nikolai Gogol....to be finished by August 24.

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

1. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, Algernon Blackwood
2. The Human Chord, Algernon Blackwood
   
3. In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires, Raymond T. McNally, Radu R. Florescu
   
4. A Room with A View, E.M. Forster
   
5. Grendel, John Gardner
   
6. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
   
7. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
   
8. The Werewolf, Montague Summers
   
9. Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Nikolai Gogol
   
10. The Collector, John Fowles
    
11. Viy, Nikolai Gogol
12. Vampires and Vampirism, Montague Summers
13. The Witch of Ravensworth, George Brewer
14. Some Dogmas of Religion, J.M.E. McTaggart
15. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
    
16. The Centaur, Algernon Blackwood
    
17. The Devils of Loudun, Aldous Huxley
    
18. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
19. Taras Bulba, Nikolai Gogol
    
20. Hard Times, Charles Dickens

Click here to view my entire Classics Club list

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Cat Thursday - Kittens being kittens

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