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Read about our Literary Cats in Collins Library! This week’s “Feline Fridays” series presents: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Call No.: PZ10.3.O19 Mi), by Robert C. O’Brien, a story including the character Dragon, the farmer’s cat.  In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz,  (Call No.: PZ8.B327 Do17) Eureka is Dorothy’s cat, also known as the Pink Kitten. Also, check out The Last Battle from C.S. Lewis’s Narnia Books, (Call No.: PZ8.L48 L3). Ginger is featured as the orange tomcat in this seventh  of a series of high fantasy novels, also considered a classic of children’s literature.

Read about our Literary Cats in Collins Library! This week’s “Feline Fridays” series presents: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Call No.: PR4611 .A7 2011), by Lewis Carroll. It includes a short story about The Cheshire Cat, known for its distinctive mischievous grin. Also take a look at Bunnicula, by James Howe, (Call No.:  PZ7.H836 Bu 1979) featuring a cat named Chester, in this rabbit tale of mystery.

NPR Article – November 1, 2012

Joe Queenan reads so many books, it’s amazing that he can also find time to write them. Queenan estimates he’s read between 6,000 and 7,000 books total, at a rate of about 125 books a year — (or 100 in a “slow” year). “Some years I just went completely nuts,” Queenan tells NPR’s Robert Siegel. “A couple years ago I read about 250. I was trying to read a book every single day of the year but I kind of ran out of gas.”…

– by NPR Staff

Do you like to write, but avoid the huge, daunting task? Now’s your chance to start! November is  National Novel Writing Month! And this is your opportunity to take a fun, fast approach to novel writing. You can begin writing on November 1. Your goal?  Write a 50,000-word (approximately 175-page) novel by 11:59:59 PM on November 30. And you’re not alone. Last year, there were 256,619 participants. Will you be one of them this year? Learn more.

Read about our Literary Cats in Collins Library! This week’s “Feline Fridays” series presents: The Black Cat (Call No.: PS2612 .A1 1944), by Edgar Allen Poe, a short story about a cat named Pluto, and the study of the psychology of guilt and death. A second book, Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, (Call No.:  PR6019.O9 Z52637 2004) features a pet cat named Boald Tib. This is a story with no real beginning or end (it ends in the middle of a sentence and begins in the middle of the same sentence), and the book is as remarkable for its prose as for its circular structure. Sixty years after its original publication, it remains, in Anthony Burgess’s words, “a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page.”