Welcome to Litsy!

An encyclopedia about cats, this book is dated (early 1990s), but still I learned much I read stories I‘d never read before like Puss n Boots (loved it!). I learned the various iterations of the plague were often blamed on witches. (TW: animal cruelty) As a result hundreds of thousands of cats were tortured and burned alive—perpetuating the plague because there were no cats to kill the rats carrying plague fleas. The dated info made this ⬇️

Book coincidences always blow my mind. I just tonight read the story of Puss n Boots in the tagged book for the first time ever. And then I was finishing this Christmas short story by Louis May Alcott before I go to sleep when surprise! The girls in the story go see Puss n Boots at the theater. How does that even happen?

I would‘ve been so lost if I hadn‘t just read the story, too, as LMA describes part of the show.

Leila, thank you so much for the handmade Christmas card. It‘s so incredibly special! You are so talented! I thought it appropriate to take a photo of it with my cat book I‘m reading. ❤️🐈‍⬛🐈 @Catsandbooks

Beatrix Potter was quite the artist!

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Interesting…

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In this list of myths about cats from the tagged book comes this one from the Philippines. Good timing for #foodandlit this month.

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This is awesome! I wonder if it‘s still true! Do any of you know any library cats?

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Love this! #litsyatoz #letterQ

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It‘s a warm night in south Texas so very hard to chill, literally, so I chilled figuratively with my #litsyatoz #letterQ book, hot chocolate, and a cookie I made today. It was lovely!

Love this!

Here‘s a list of books in which Koko the cat solves mysteries. I‘ll have to see if I can find some.

There are poems and excerpts and short stories in this encyclopedia of cats. As a result, I am reading for the first time Edgar Allan Poe‘s short story, The Black Cat. I can‘t say I care for it very much given the cruelty in it. There should have been trigger warnings, but I don‘t think such things existed in the 1990s when this book was compiled.

I‘m in the homestretch now for #litsyatoz. My last two letters A and Q are underway! Z got cut off. I read Zombie Party for scarathlon. Books in bold are wishful thinking to read by year‘s end. Not too shabby for having about a 3-month slump. But jury selection in my big trial starts this week, so how much spare time I‘m going to have is questionable. Hoping to win the trial first and foremost and if I can, meet most of my 2021 Litsy challenges.

I‘ve had this book, a perfect gift for me, since the 1990s and only now reading it. #litsyatoz is the perfect excuse! And who knew? It‘s the a-to-z‘s about cats!

The dedication.

Next up! Only two books left for #Litsyatoz—letter A is underway and now I‘m starting #letterQ. My cat is looking skeptically at it.

I love LibraryThing sometimes. I just put all of my books in alphabetical order to find whether I owned any that start with the remaining letters for my #litsyatoz challenge. Lo and behold, I have books for every remaining letter, most of which work with #scarathlon too! Here‘s hoping I can get to them.