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Cat Stories | Diana Secker Tesdell
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Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripefrom P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser.The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy: Italo Calvino's secret city of cats in The Garden of Stubborn Cats, the disappearing feline in Ursula K. Le Guin's mind-twisting Schrdinger's Cat, the cartoon rodent and his cartoon nemesis in Steven Millhauser's Cat 'n' Mouse. Cats flaunt their superiority in Angela Carter's bawdy retelling of Puss-in-Boots and in Stephen Vincent Bent's The King of the Cats, in which two impossibly suave foreigners are revealed as even more exotic than they pretend to be. In The Islands by Alice Adams and I See You, Bianca by Maeve Brennan we see how much cats can mean to their humans. And the inimitable Saki lets us hear what cats really think of us in Tobermory, his tale of a tactless talking animal.In these and other stories, this delightful book offers cat lovers a many- faceted tribute to the beguilingly mysterious objects of their affection.
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Cat Stories | Diana Secker Tesdell
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Another miserable story from this so far dreary and depressing anthology. “I See You, Bianca,” by Maeve Brennan was essentially 11 pages of description of the MC‘s NYC apartment. There happened to be a cat who goes missing and the MC doesn‘t seem that bothered really. That‘s the plot. What a downer! I‘m very nervous to continue with this collection. If the next story is more of the same I may just shelve this for now.
#catsoflitsy

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Cat Stories | Diana Secker Tesdell
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My new nighttime short story collection. Kicking it off with “The Islands,” by Alice Adams. Quite a melancholy start, a story about the life and loss of a tailless Manx cat named Pink, named after the MC‘s friend Zoe Pinkerton. Zoe‘s path through life mirrors Pink‘s, both leaving a hole behind in their place. I‘m nervous that every story in this collection will be a downer, but I hope I am surprised. Finn and Jack pictured offering moral support.

dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 3mo
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Cat Stories | Diana Secker Tesdell
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His favorite time of year and his favorite spot in the house. #Rambo #catsoflitsy

Texreader ❤️🐈‍⬛ and I love colorful tree lights 3y
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Cat Stories | Diana Secker Tesdell
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It might be 3am but I realized that's the 20th, so I get to open all my lovely #letsgethygge gifts from @CareBear ! She did a fantastic job 💕Three books I've been wanting to read, my favorite flavor of coffee, bookish socks, lovely bookmark, awesome mug (cats, coffee, and books!!!!) and even treats for my furry babies 😻Thank you so much!

TrishB Awesome 👍 7y
erzascarletbookgasm 👍🏼😃 7y
LeahBergen Love the socks! 7y
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