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My friend Liz gave me the hardback What is my cat thinking? book guide as she knows we love talking about our pet cats and their antics.
The 90-page easy-to-read book by Gwen Bailey didn't tell me much more than I already figured out, but it definitely clarified a few behaviors. Plus, it had the cutest cat photos. This book is a great coffee table book. Young children who get a kitten as a pet could probably learn a lot from this as well, especially if they cannot understand why cats don't want to be constantly held and squeezed.
I'm reading the next novel in the Thursday Next series and as I read I didn't realize how much I missed this character.
Jasper Fforde is probably best known for his fiction The Eyre Affair, the first novel of the series. First Among Sequels continues with Thursday Next, a secret special ops agent in the real world and a Jurisfiction police agent in a parallel BookWorld. Fforde continually alludes to other books and literature and makes well-known characters players in his novels. Thursday always has some sort of mess to clean up or mystery to solve regarding these characters and their crimes, one of which can be escaping into the real world. The series is like science fiction for book lovers.
After renting The Nanny Diaries last night, starring Scarlett Johansson, I quite possibly changed my mind about reading the book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.
I saw the book on the shelves last year and since I had just finished reading Confessions of a Shopaholic, I didn't think I was in the mood for another book about a spendthrift trying to finance a life like the upper-class residents living around her. But the movie showed how the protagonist criticized the exorbitant lifestyles of the Upper East Side residents in Manhattan and focused more on the importance of finding one's identity and not selling out essentially. I also found in my heart a new appreciation for the struggles of live-in nannies.
I thought this was slightly amusing, especially since my husband is a lifer at Red Lobster. Author Stewart O'Nan wrote Last Night at the Lobster as fiction following employees in the last days before an under-performing Red Lobster finally closes.
Mr. O'Nan definitely knew where to find drama -- in the lives of employees struggling to either make ends meet or make the numbers to keep a job to support a family, or in one character's case, pregnancy. The New York Times article "Requiem for a Red Lobster" gives readers insight on how the author bought and studied a Red Lobster operating manual to provide accuracy in his fiction. The book was apparently inspired by a true incident, where people of a small town went to meet at the local Red Lobster to find it closed. |