LESTER & FUQUA
Just Hanging Out in Their Citrus Boxes
One of the polydactyl cats at the
Ernest Hemingway House
JUST HANGING OUT IN KEY WEST
Digital photo taken by Marc Averette
Hemingway's Cats
by Lindsey Hooper
a lighthearted novel
featuring cute cats with funny names such as
"Pawpa Hemingway, the grumpiest cat in Key West" (141)
&
Ernestine Hemingway, Lady Bratt Ashley, Kilamanjaro
Hooper loves a good pun, as she describes the cats (& humans)
hunkering down to wait out the frightful weather event:
"When Hurricane Harry met Tropical Storm Sally"
[More Wise Cats!]
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Following last month's heroic (real life) Book Woman,
this month's reading included a notable (fictional) Book Man,
Jean Perdu, the Literary Apothecary,
who seeks to heal his friends and clients
through prescribed reading.
Monsieur Perdu would no doubt agree
with (real life) journalist Will Schwalbe:
"Books can’t do anything by themselves.
They need us.
Today we need to read more than ever.
And we need to act now more than ever."
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Thanks to a few of my personal Literary Apothecaries:
Steven for Hemingway's Cats,
Katie for The Little Paris Bookshop
-- such fun presents for a girl who loves books & cats!
And to Igor, who says:
"This is a bookshop! We'll fight them on the Seine!
My favorite quote from
The Little Paris Bookshop:
"Do you mean: 'Sorry, I haven't finished what I wanted to say' or 'Sorry for being in love with you and only giving you headaches'?"
"Both. Any request for forgiveness. Maybe you've got used to feeling guilty for everything you are. Often it's not we who shape words, but the words that shape us." (37)
Sorry, sorry, sorry . . .
