Much of the weekend has gone, but it’s not too late for a weekend miscellany. Here in the UK it is very sunny, so I’m going to take my book off to a park to find an ice cream in a minute. First, I’ll leave you with a book, a blog post, and a link.
1.) The blog post – I’m really looking forward to a new reading week run by Mallika at Literary Potpourri – Reading the Meow! It’s coming up soon: 12-18 June, we are encouraged to read books about cats. That can be fiction or non-fiction, or somewhere in between. Ideally the cat should be the main point of the book, I think, rather than a passing visitor. I’ve got three books I’m planning to read – for anything looking for recommendations, I particularly liked The Fur Person by May Sarton and Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing.
2.) The link – Tom Cox’s beautiful article about a book hoarder’s manor for sale looks beyond the headlines to a moving imagining of the old man’s long life with the house, books and the community. (Sidenote: it’s on substack, which basically seems to the cool new cousin of blogging, though as far as I can see it is exactly the same as blogging. Everything comes full circle!)
3.) The book – Sarra Manning mentioned a novel that I am very drawn to – coming out in July, it’s Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments by Hema Sukumar. It’s a group of residents of an apartment building in Chennai, India, and what happens when a developer threatens to demolish their homes…
I loved the Tom Cox article and the wonderful photographs. I was trying to make out the titles of the books in them!
Yes, me too! Too hard to decipher.
The book sounds interesting! I live in an apartment building too, so I’m looking forward to read this book (or your review if you read it first, LOL).
I’m looking forward to Reading the Meow week too – have read 1 book (couldn’t wait any longer!), and about to read the 2nd and 3rd this week.
Do let me know if you read the apartment book; would love to know your thoughts!
Thanks for the mention! So thrilled to see so much excitement around Reading the Meow. Looking forward to seeing which books you pick!
I am behind because I realised I hadn’t read my book for book group, but onto the cats soon!
One to add to your cats shelf is The Silent Miaow, a manual for kittens by Paul Gallico’s cat. Despite that description, it is not at all twee or childish — it’s sharp and funny and so true to the nature of cats. I’ve loved it for more than half a century!
Oh interesting, thank you! I don’t think that’s one of the Gallicos I have, somehow, though I do have a LOT.