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Favorite Reviews:
I have reviewed many books over the years, and some reviews have been more interesting or fun to write than others. The below list were my favorites to write.
• Ada, or Ardor
• Choose Your Own Autobiography
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• If Not, Winter
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• The Kid Table
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lolita
• The Monk
• The Night Circus
• Oathbringer
• Return of the Native
• Rhythm of War
• S
• Things Fall Apart
• The Unit
• The Woods Are Always WatchingCategories:
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Tag Archives: the ferals
Kittens and KonMari
L and I were meant to leave on our roadtrip yesterday, but we canceled. 1) The weather was alternating between excruciating high temps and severe thunderstorms for the entire week of travel and being outdoors, and that didn’t sound like … Continue reading
July 2023 in Review
July was a really hard month. We lost a family friend to ALS right at the beginning. We almost lost a foster kitten. Our a/c failed during one of the worst heat waves we’ve seen in a very long time … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – The Nightmare Week
As the title suggests, it has been a nightmare this week! It started last weekend with Droplet’s emergency triage. I talked about that a little and I’m not going to go into the gross details, but essentially the whole situation … Continue reading
Water Kittens
The day after our dear friend Chris passed away, grief was fresh but elusive (because my brain doesn’t process grief linearly, and instead waits to latch onto something seemingly inconsequential to grieve over). I felt both restless and absent, my … Continue reading
Goodbye to the Double Trouble Singletons
Well. After six weeks, our little posse of kittens is gone. Some of what’s in this post is repeat of earlier posts, but at this point, I don’t know what I’ve said where, so I’m just going to write as … Continue reading
June 2023 in Review
Have you ever spent a long period of time just going through the motions, and looking back, it feels like you were sleeping/dreaming for most of that time? That’s what June felt like for me. Part of that was the … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – Kitten Update
First let me start with a little shoutout to the dads out there today, in whatever iteration of “dad” they are. Happy Father’s Day! Now. Kittens. We still have both Juice and Fleabag, who has been renamed Florence. Florence, thankfully, … Continue reading
SC: Mr Juicy and the Fleabag
Oh my, what a week it has been! First, I mentioned that I would introduce our newest foster kitten, Juice (Juicy? We’ve been told both names, so we’re just calling him Juicy or Mr Juicy for now). Juicy is a … Continue reading
May 2023 in Review
May can pretty much be divided into pre-vacation and vacation, an even split down the middle. As such, I had very few of my traditional May PTSD issues. There were enough near the beginning to get me to re-listen to … Continue reading
Goodbye: Sassafras
After three weeks with us, our little Sassy-Pants went back in to the shelter for spay and the search for her forever home this week. Sassy started as an extremely timid kitten who had little to no experience with humans … Continue reading
The Zen Leaf 