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Picture of cat

Watson makes me happy. #catpics, #catsofblueski

Lego buildings

Lego is my meditation, a time which takes me away from the realities of this crazy epoch. If only I could live in it...

Picture of Simon and Watson. Like all cats they must test my new pillow.

"Oh, yes," she purred. "I like this one! Come along, children."
"But this isn't yours," I pointed out.
"My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine."

Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
#catsofbluesky #catpics

"...those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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"I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"

I remember feeling like a chore when I read it in school, but when I listened to the audio book, I finally "got" it! I'm glad i gave it a second chance.

Cover of The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books Book 1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

19/20

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books Book 1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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#bookchallenge

#banksyart
#banksymuseum

Book cover of A Land so Strange: the Epic Journey of Cabesa de Vaca. The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard who Walked Across America in the Sixteenth Century by Andrés Reséndez

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

18/20

A Land so Strange: the Epic Journey of Cabesa de Vaca

by Andrés Reséndez

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#bookchallenge

Definitely want to read. Thanks

This was not just entertainment. It was performance, it was free speech, it was history, it was holding a mirror to the USA. It was ART.

Book cover for Empire of the Summer Moon: Quana Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwyne

“No tribe in the history of Spanish, French, Mexican, Texan, and American occupations of this land had even caused so much havoc and death. None was even a close second.”

Empire of the Summer Moon

by S. C. Gwyne

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#nativeamericans

Photo of Kendrick Lamar receiving the Pulitzer Prize

It wasn't just "gibberish"

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Book cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Nealy Hurston

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

17/20

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#BlackHisforyMonth
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T-shirt graphic depicting evolution of men. The most evolved is walking a cat. A lot of cat hair provided by Simon and Watson.

I found this t-shirt that I almost gave away to charity shop. Couldn't do it. Still fits & has cat hair as a bonus!

#catturday
#catsofbluesks
#catpics
#evolvedmen
#science

Connie Willis

Book cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley.

"Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight"

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
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#MalcolmX

When i first came the way I heard English was rude rather than succinct and efficient. Yeah, a lot prejudices, but now I am hybrid of the two cultures. Forgive the wordiness.

100 Years of Solitude is pure south American poetry. English is, like north Americans, so efficient and abrupt that many English speakers find the whole magical realism and the "wordiness" a bit much. I guess it's a cultural affectation that speaks to me better than someone like Hemingway.

Yes, I had to read Anna Karenina in high school. Being 16 & only three years into learning English (my first language is español) , I understood the book at a very superficial level. Ten years later, I understood the complexity of Anna's life as a woman of a particular time and place.

You are talented! Your characters are well done & have a lot of personality - funny and original, too. Thanks for sharing your work. 🤩

Quincy, a kitty posing for a portrait.

Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers. ‐- Robert Southey

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#Catpics

I've read all of these!

There are nearly eight BILLION people on this planet! I fear this beautiful planet can't support more. What they really want is more light-skinned people like themselves -- the very ones who use more of the earth's resources than those of us from "less developed" countries. Shees!

Two cats sleeping together in a bed made for one.

"No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

Abraham Lincoln

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#catsofbluesky
#SimonandWatson

Book cover of ain't i a woman:blak women and feminism by bell hooks

Choose 20 books that have influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

16 of 20

ain't i a woman:blak women and feminism by bell hooks

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#blackhistorymonth
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#blackwomenmagic

Book cover for Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference By David J. Garrow

Choose 20 books that have influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

15 of 20

Bearing the Cross:
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
By David J. Garrow

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Anna Karenina, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Giovanni's Room - read in high school but better appreciated a few years later.