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Emma (in- memory)

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Purred: Fri Feb 6, '09 3:57am PST 
We did read Dewey,
He was a super special cat. It is a cute story. We didn't feel the writing was as personable or witty as Marley and me or Amazing Gracie. Dewey is a great story but I felt dryly told.
What's around your neck in the picture Kingsley?
Purrs,
Emma
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Kingsley

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Purred: Fri Feb 6, '09 10:16am PST 
It is my PINK VALENTINE BOW! It MATCHES my PINK NOSE! And my PINK ROSE!

I am MANLY enough to carry it off, don't you think? And I BIT and SCRATCHED and GROWLED during that photo shoot! Luna had to jump up to see if The Biped was KILLING me or WHAT! But I got a Greenie afterwards, so that was NICE!

Your tough friend,
Kingsley
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Emma (in- memory)

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Purred: Fri Feb 6, '09 4:09pm PST 
You always look cool Kingsley. The soft touch photo just might net you in some more Valentines . Never know.
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Felix- Mendelssohn- (1989-2008)

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Purred: Sun Feb 15, '09 12:04am PST 
Real men wear pink! We love your bow, Kingsley! applause

Meowmi recently came across a cozy-style mystery series featuring a retired English art teacher named Miss Seaton who gets into all kinds of ridiculous scrapes and comes out smelling like roses. She's delighted by the series & has read 4 or 5 of the books so far. She was at the library today looking for another one, but no luck at that branch - they aren't recent publications & she's been having to order them from the main library. Has anyone else read this series?

While at the library today, she picked up a the collected Father Brown stories by G.K. Chesterton. She's read a couple of them in the past, but this will let her read them all . . . unfortunately she started reading the preface to the edition, which essentially spoiled the endings of the first two stories before she realized what was happening & stopped reading it!

A nonfiction book she read a week or 2 ago was "Iron and Silk" by Mark Salzman (she thinks that's it - doesn't want to disturb felines on the lap to go check it out) - a very interesting memoir by a young Yale grad who went to China for a couple of years to teach English. It was featured in the library as the subject of a book discussion, which Meowmi was unfortunately unable to attend.

And the next book for her book club, which she hasn't started reading yet, is "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer. She hears it's quite good.

Purrs & Happy Reading to all! cloud 9
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Hunter

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Purred: Sun Feb 15, '09 7:35pm PST 
We bought Dewey, but we haven't read it yet. We're reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. He's the guy that wrote The Kite Runner. My mama is also interested in the Repairman Jack series for her audiobook listening for her commute. And now we're intrigued by that book that Samantha's reading with her mom about the aftermath of the Fall of the House of Usher. My mama read The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe about 12 years ago, so she's definitely gonna look into that book. Thanks Samantha!
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Kingsley

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Purred: Mon Feb 16, '09 5:04pm PST 
HI Hunter! HI Felix!

We have The Kite Runner but we have not read it yet. I know it is really really good!

Felix, we also have Picture Miss Seeton, Miss Seeton Sings, Miss Seeton Draws the Line and Odds on Miss Seeton. If you would like to borrow one of them, let me know! They are probably the ones you have already read though. We read them a long time ago and we LIKED them too, although we cannot remember anything about them! Time to reread, I would say!

Into Thin Air is a page-turner! A warning : Do NOT climb Mt. Everest if you have had that lasik eye surgery!

Your friend,
Kingsley
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Felix- Mendelssohn- (1989-2008)

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Purred: Sat Feb 28, '09 5:51pm PST 
Thanks Kingsley --- I think Meowmi has read all the Miss Seaton books you mentioned -- will keep ordering them from the main library. . .

Finished Into Thin Air in 2 days - Meowmi could NOT put it down! She has dreams of climbing Everest, but suspects they will remain dreams! Even so, she's glad she hasn't had Lasik surgery! MOL! She then read The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev & G. Weston DeWalt, which was written in response to Into Thin Air. Krakauer was pretty critical of the actions of Boukreev, who was a guide for one of the groups on Everest during the time Krakauer wrties about.
The Climb presents Boukreev's view of the events. Meowmi's just about to head off to a book club meeting that will feature Into Thin Air.
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Kingsley

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Purred: Sat Feb 28, '09 8:26pm PST 
Hi Felix!

I TOLD you you would like Into Thin Air! That book sent me into a mountain-climbing FRENZY! I read all the Everest books and watched the National Geographic shows and went to the IMAX theater to watch the Ken (?) Brashears Everest film!

But not even one little time was I EVER tempted to try mountain-climbing! I am more of a flat-lander kitty.

Your friend down where the air is thick,
Kingsley
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Felix- Mendelssohn- (1989-2008)

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Purred: Sun Mar 1, '09 6:37pm PST 
Yeah, Meowmi's wanting to read more mountain climbing books now! She climbed a mountain about 25 years ago. . . but it was 9000 Feet, NOT 9000 METERS!! And it was pretty strenuous, even so!

Next month's book club selection is Three Cups of Tea, which she read a few months ago but plans to read again -- so she'll get a bit more of a mountain-climbing fix!

In the meantime, she's about halfway through The Father Brown Omnibus. . .
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Emma (in- memory)

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Purred: Mon Mar 23, '09 4:18pm PST 
Mum and I just finished reading "The Reader" today. It was short! It was pretty easy and fast to read . Mum didn't really care for any of the characters so she didn't get that drawn into the book. It wasn't that interesting of a book to us. Has anyone else read it or seen the movie?
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