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The Cat who Came for Christmas
The Cat who Came for Christmas | Cleveland Amory
20 posts | 17 read | 22 to read
An account of a year in the life of Polar Bear, a stray white cat that finds its way into the heart and home of the author, portrays the cat's independent nature and opposition to anything new
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Nebklvr
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Bailedbailed

The parts about his cat were engaging. The digressions into the history of cats and the names given to them were rather boring.

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KCofKaysville
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I read the book years ago. Tending my brother's family's new kitten today.

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LauraBeth
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Happy Holidays!
XOXO,
Bitsy, The BFG, Grey Cat, Robbie, Mr. Bird

TrishB Happy Christmas 🎄❤️ 4y
Crazeedi Merry Christmas!!🎄☃️🌠🎁 4y
Nute Merry Christmas, Ms. Laura!💚 4y
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Bookzombie Merry Christmas! 🎄 💕 4y
TNbookworm Merry Christmas🎄 4y
BarbaraBB Happy holidays for you and your crew 🤍 4y
Suet624 Merry Christmas to you all!! Thank you for coming back to Litsy. You've made my world a better place. 4y
CarolynM Happy holidays to all of you🎄😘 4y
LauraBeth @TrishB Merry Christmas ❤️ 4y
LauraBeth @Crazeedi Merry Christmas 💕 4y
LauraBeth @nute Merry Christmas ❤️ 4y
LauraBeth @Bookzombie Merry Christmas 💕 4y
LauraBeth @TNbookworm Merry Christmas ❤️ 4y
LauraBeth @BarbaraBB Happy Holidays ❤️ 4y
LauraBeth @Suet624 Awww - you‘re too kind ❤️ It‘s good to be back! 4y
Megabooks Happy holidays!! 4y
LeahBergen Happy Holidays to all of you!! 😘😘😘 4y
LauraBeth Happy Holidays @Megabooks! ❤️ 4y
LauraBeth @LeahBergen Happy Holidays to you and JB! 😘 4y
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BookBabe
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#Coale is as delighted with the #bookhaul as I am! 😸 #catsofLitsy

MelissaSue81 Adorable! 6y
Avanders & I love that carpeting! 😍 6y
LauraBeth 😻😻 6y
Tanzy13 🐱 6y
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JessClark78
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Pickpick

A cute memoir about an animal rights activist and his adopted cat, Polar Bear. It‘s a touching and, at times, funny story about a man who goes from never having a cat to being completely cat-owned. I will warn that different acts of animal cruelty are mentioned in the book that are upsetting to read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Bookboss I read this years ago and loved it. 7y
AmyG My friend, Martha, who is 105...she used to work somewhere in NYC...but she knew him. He used to talk “cats” with her. Love this book. 7y
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2BR02B
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I've got two Christmassy books, and probably time to read only one before Christmas. Help me decide?

Eyelit The stupidest angel! 7y
Mollyanna I second...The Stupidest Angel! 7y
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Nerdfins
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Well, I guess I‘m doing something else besides reading right now. #catsoflitsy

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Dolly
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This was very good, not spectacular. I could have done without the occasional foray into animal abuse reports.

Faibka 😻💕 8y
Tanzy13 🐱 8y
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MrBook
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Oh, #Coale! He was a bit scared with all the noise and tossing of materiel while I wrapped @BookBabe 's #Christmas presents tonight 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. He did enjoy sniffing and rubbing up against them though when I was done 😸. #catsofLitsy

Reagan He is such a beautiful cat. I love black cats! 8y
Branwen He's so handsome! And such beautiful, soulful eyes! :-) 8y
Suzze Oh, Coale. Maybe there will be something for you under the tree? 🐱🐱🐱❤❤ 8y
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BookishMarginalia Such a cutie! 8y
BookBabe 😻😻😻😻😻😻 I can't get over the cuteness of him! 😁😁😁 8y
Graciouswarriorprincess Oh, Coale, you are so handsome!❤😻 8y
Texreader Adorable!! 8y
Faibka Cutie! 💕😻😻😻 8y
TheBookAddict 😻😻😻 8y
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Dolly
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This is dedicated to the #catsoflitsy #littenkitten #catsonbooks #catswhoread, #catsaspaperweights, and the people they own 💖💖🐈😍

emilyesears Awww I love it!!! 8y
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Branwen
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Starting my next holiday read on this cold, snowy morning. Nothing better than tea and a new book to start the weekend off right! :-)

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Dolly
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I'm so lucky to have a kitty that doesn't eat people food, jump on the counters or table or wake me early but it sure is funny to read this about someone else.❤️

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Dolly
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Ironically my once feral, dirty, matted NYC stray has FINALLY jumped into my lap for the first time tonight. It just so happens I started a book where the author is capturing a filthy wild stray off the streets in NYC. I won't dwell on the fact I turned the thermostat down to 60F & covered up with a heated throw & wool blanket. Smirk is now officially a #littenkitten !

LauraBeth Awwww 😻 No.Sudden.Movements!!! 8y
Dolly #lauraBeth I know! My leg fell asleep but so what I'll still have one good leg remaining. 8y
OrangeMooseReads Awww 😻😻 8y
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rubyslippersreads 😻😻😻 8y
EloisaJames He's shiny and beautiful!! 8y
Dolly @EloisaJames Yes, she's my patent leather kitty. So different from when she first came home with shaved areas because (hard to believe a short haired cat can mat) her fur was matted. 8y
LeahBergen ❤️❤️ 8y
LauraJ Good job, Cat Mom! 8y
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Dolly
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It's getting cold so this seems like a good bet. It appears Smirk has no objection.

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LauraBeth
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Lunchtime read

brooklynreads 😂😂😂 8y
BookishFeminist Hi #Bitsy 🐶😂 8y
LeahBergen 😂😂 Oh, #Bitsy. 8y
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GlitteryOtters Bitsy is in fine form today. 😂👌 8y
KarenUK Bitsy looks so happy! 8y
Faibka Aww Bitsy!! 😁 8y
Libby1 ❤️❤️❤️ 8y
OrangeMooseReads Bitsy looks awfully comfortable! 🐶 8y
DebinHawaii Is Bitsy protesting the reading of cat-related books?! 🐶❤️ 8y
Litlady Sweet, sleepy pup! Lolol...😂🐾🐶🐾🐶❣ 8y
Bookish.Heart Adorable Bitsy! 🐶❤️️ 8y
Suzze @DebinHawaii That's just what I was thinking. 8y
LauraBeth @BookishFeminist Bitsy returns your Hello to you, and tells Sherlock and Noodle to live with abandon 😂 8y
LauraBeth @brooklynreads I'm past being embarrassed for her. And for me 😂 8y
LauraBeth @GlitteryOtters fine form indeed 😂 8y
LauraBeth @KarenUK I want her life 😂 8y
LauraBeth @Faibka no shame 😂 8y
LauraBeth @Libby1 she's a hot mess 8y
LauraBeth @OrangeMooseReads it's like she's had a couple of glasses of wine 😊😬 8y
LauraBeth @DebinHawaii and @Suzze y'all might be onto something...she could be protesting 😂 8y
LauraBeth @Litlady 😂😂 she WAS tired! 8y
LauraBeth @Bookish.Heart 😊😊good thing she's cute and sweet 😂 8y
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LauraBeth
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Currently reading: This story along with the author's founding of an animal sanctuary, is a great testament to the fact that every animal can be rehabilitated and doesn't have to be thrown away by society just because they were once enveloped by sad and neglectful conditions (#Bitsy was once a sick, starved and abandoned puppy that someone had left to die in a snowstorm) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lifGkijVhc #booksfromsteinbeck @Liberty

LeahBergen #Bitsy is so lucky to have you! ❤️ 8y
LeahBergen (But I'm thinking she probably doesn't want another cat for Christmas? 😂) 8y
Stephykitten Makes me love the both of you even more! Yay for animal rescuers 🐾❤️ 8y
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Libby1 ❤️❤️❤️ 8y
DHill ❤️❤️ 8y
GlitteryOtters Agreed! I have friends who are professional mushers who do distance sled dog races & they have made it their life's work to promote the fact that no dog is disposable, that all are valuable. My 50 pound, 14 year old Husky was once a 24 pound, 1 year old abused/malnourished dog that they rescued from an Alaska animal shelter. They raced with a team 1/2 made up of rescue dogs & promoted rescue's values as pets & racers. Makes me love them even more. 8y
Mimi28 Ozzie says 😉💗to Bitsy and the Kitsys! Ozzie and his brother are from an ad on Craigslist giving away free Hemingway kittens. They had super-fleas and ear mites but are fine now 😻 8y
NatalieR 🐾❤️🐾 8y
LauraBeth @LeahBergen 💕💕😊she definitely doesn't want another cat for Christmas! 8y
LauraBeth @GlitteryOtters I ❤️this story! Sometimes all that stands between an animal having a good life is just one person who cares 8y
LauraBeth @Mimi28 I need a Hemingway kitten 😻 8y
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Sara_Planz
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Happy #Caturday. Metar is helping Nate and I with the lights today.

Litlady Aww .. sweet, festive fur baby! 💙😻💓😻❤️🎄 8y
Dragon Christmas 🐱 8y
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Coleen Love this pic! ❤️ 8y
MyNamesParadise Awww pretty kitty! 8y
Eyelit 💜🐱😄 8y
emilyesears Awwww what a sweetpea!! 8y
MorganNotMegan So cute 😻 8y
Bookzombie 💕🐱 8y
LauraBeth Time to trim the cat with lights 😻 8y
Hobbinol What a good sport!❤️❤️❤️ 8y
bookwrm526 My husband won't let me put up the tree until after Thanksgiving 😔 8y
Sara_Planz @bookwrm526 usually the same thing here but since my son is home on leave I was permitted to do it now. Lol 8y
DebinHawaii Very festive!!! 🐱❤️ 8y
Bette 😂😂😂 👍❤️️🐱 8y
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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post! I know we have to get through #Thanksgiving first in order to get to #Christmas, lol, but I couldn't resist posting this book! Cute cover, cute kitty, quick and cozy story. Sounds like a winner to me 😺! Anyone read this little gem yet? #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😸😸😸

Hoopiefoot I unabashedly love this book 8y
LauraBeth I first read it in the early 90s and loved it to pieces and ended up reading the rest in the series - think there are 3 books (edited) 8y
BarbaraTheBibliophage One of my long-time favorites! 8y
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kspenmoll 😺📚😻🎅 8y
tapgurl I loved this book! So did my mom:)) 8y
MrBook @Hoopiefoot I haven't heard of it before tonight 😊. @LauraBeth Good to know 😁👏🏻! @BarbaraTheBibliophage 😁👏🏻🙌🏻!! @kspenmoll 😸👍🏻! @tapgurl A two-thumbs-up approval is a fine thing indeed 😊👍🏻. 8y
freyaheart Omg stop post cute Christmas cat books. I'm never going to see the end of my TBR! 8y
MrBook @freyaheart 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8y
freyaheart And I just noticed my typo... oh well lol 😸 8y
Faibka So cute! 🙀I'm starting a separate Kitty books TBR list 😻😻😻 love these! Please keep them coming! 😸 8y
Bette Yep. A curmudgeon meets a cat. 😂👍❤️😊💙 8y
MrBook @freyaheart 😂👏🏻! @Faibka Well, if you insist 😺... @Bette 😹👏🏻! 8y
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LauraBeth
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They don't call it Hotlanta for nothing 😎This is always a good read when it's hot outside. Christmas Eve in NYC and a cat named Polar Bear - it's a sweet story. Read it while drinking an iced cold Coke - the champagne of the South! #funfridayphoto

BarbaraTheBibliophage Oh I loved this sweet book! 8y
LauraBeth @barbarathebibliopage I also liked The Cat and the Curmudgeon - did you read that one too? 8y
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