Thursday, June 26, 2025

Cat Thursday - We're fabulous!


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Friday, June 13, 2025

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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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Cat Thursday - Kittens being kittens


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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."

These are the stories we need to read and continue reading, lest we forget the horrors in history and the people who suffered so greatly.

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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Cat Thursday - Cats are weird (4)


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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Cat Thursday - Mother's Day


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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Cat Thursday - Current Mood


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