That’s one cool cat. He doesn’t look very impressed though. My cats would murder me if I tried to put a sweater on one of them.
Before you start your weekend of reading (ahem), here are some links to get you ready.
*French critics: “We are not so impressed with le Fifty Shades.”
*Take a quiz! Hark a Vagrant style. I busted a gut over the Trudeau/Mulroney unholy union, as was foretold.
*More vagina trouble at the bookstore.
*Johnny Depp gets his own imprint.
*Women reading: Stigmatized and marginalized.
*Hilary Martel is a two-time winner.
*Etsy Love: Cute Jane Austen pendant from Wine Dark Sea Studio. What’s Anne looking at? Probably Captain Wentworth.
Have a good one!
I read Belinda Jack's book earlier this year and it was so interesting. Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteI kept clicking on links and somehow went from women's reading habits to Swedes "eat a lot of goddamned sandwiches." Which was a hilarious critique of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. So thanks for leading me astray. :-D
ReplyDeleteYou have a great collection of links here. I am cracking up over the French being bored with Fifty Shades (ah, the French!) and the bruhahah over the use of the word "vagina" in a Christian book. When did "vagina" become a naughty word anyway? It's a weird, weird, world. :-)
ReplyDeleteI agreed with some of the "A Woman Reader" article, i.e., that historically and still today in some parts of the world women readers are stigmatized and marginalized, but I beg to differ that this is the case in Canada. I've seen too many boys embarrassed to be seen with a book because it's not macho enough, to think the pendulum hasn't swung in the other direction. And if the small number of male book bloggers are any indication, we're also not "supposed" to talk about books.
ReplyDeleteHark a Vagrant! I almost forgot that wondrous site existed.
ReplyDeleteI read the Vagina article (I call it that because I think it is ridiculous to be afraid of a word that just references a body part), it's like the wizarding world being afraid of saying Voldermort. Perhaps the author should have replaced vagina with 'she-who-must-not-be-named'. Ridiculous.