A book that I recently acquired for the purposes of giving it away.

This book is going to a mini-meet-up tonight with Hyphen8 and allysther who will be visiting BCinDC.

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Brought this home after a BCinDC meetup. I can't resist a cat book, and this one looked like a nice collection of images and quotes.

I read this book today on the way TO another BCinDC meetup and set the book free while I was there to find a new reader.

Despite my fears in looking at the subtitle, this was less about worship and more about celebration of the cat through art and history. There were countless quotations about cats organized by subject, all arranged to allow a quick but thorough read. There was cat imagery and clip art that was sometimes lovely, sometimes strange, sometimes distracting, but mostly cute. And there was my favorite section: the list of famous people and the names of their cats (as well as sometimes some facts about the cats themselves).

Some favorites:
"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven."
~Robert A. Heinlein

Lord Byron had five cats, one named Beppo. Of course he did.

"From time to time, newspapers print stories about some elderly widow who died and left her entire estate, valued at $3,200,00, to her cat, Fluffkins. Cats read these stories, too, and are always plotting to get names as beneficiaries of their owners' wills. Did you ever wonder where you cat goes when it wanders off for several hours? It meets with other cats in estate-planning seminars. I just thought you should know."
~Dave Barry

Charles Dickens' cat, William, (Willamina after she surprisingly had kittens) would snuff out his reading candle with her paw to get his attention.

"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself."
~William S. Burroughs

"There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person."
~Dan Greenbert

Took to a BCinDC meetup! Enjoy!

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Picked this up at a meetup several weeks ago and, uh, never got around to journaling it. It looks like a fun read.

A collection of quotes about cats followed by anecdotes about famous cat-owners. It's all very cute and charming until the very end, when there are elegies for cats. I shouldn't have read that part. It made me cry. The rest was fun, though.

Taking to the BCinDC meetup in Alexandria. Hope it gets claimed!

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This was left over at the BC-in-DC meetup today. I took it with plans to release it at my hospital's book cart, but I think I may wild release somewhere cat-ish instead.

I'm not sure when or where this was released, but it is no longer in my possession. Hopefully it'll write home soon!