In which there are cats and hats LITERALLY!!1!!
- Write my shopping list? I have to go into the city centre for what will hopefully be my last shopping visit until 2017 but I can't seem to think what I should have on my shopping list so help me out by telling me which things you have to go especially into a large town centre or mall to buy because you can't get them locally?
- My new hat, according to a friend, makes me look like a mad Edwardian lady. WIN. Another life goal ticked off my list!
- Cat = chicken. I was crossing a railway bridge and looked down to see a face-off between a train in the nearby station and a black and white cat sitting neatly perched on a freezing cold rail facing the train. I told the cat, just loud enough for it to hear, "I wouldn't sit there if I were you." And, clearly realising it had been addressed it meowed back at me with a loud extended multi-syllable, "MMRRROOOOAAAWW." The driver began rolling forwards and sounded his two-note klaxon but the cat naturally ignored him until the last moment that a relaxed strolling pace would suffice to remove it from danger. I wonder how many times that terrorist cat has targetted the local transport infrastructure in this way.
- Berwyn, Land of Bridges.
- Reading, books 2016, 207
185. Will & Whit, by Laura Lee Gulledge, 2013. I stand by every word of my 2015 review: "is a nice comic about nice people in a nice town being nice. No, rly, I enjoyed it! Gulledge’s art is lovely and the story drifts through it in an utterly inconsequential way. Our heroine is afraid of the dark, which is eventually portrayed as being a sort of avoidant fear of the unknown since her parents died a year previously when she was 16 (presumably due to an attack of the Plot Reaper who seems to have felt that being afraid of the dark wasn’t DRAMATIC enough and being orphaned was more impressive, although truly this story didn’t need the 20/192 pages devoted to this plotline near the end which made this sudden cathartic moment appear oriented towards award judges rather than the character or the readers). Notably for nice small town USA fiction set in suburbia, the cast of eight main characters casually includes one South-Asian American girl in the best friend role and one apparently African American girl as the main BUT VERY NICE antagonist WHO IS VERY NICE (and also, at one point, depicted singing in a cage, which made my brain automatically recite the poem Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, lol). (4/5)
186. [a "middle grade" novel], 2016, which I read with children of the appropriate age. They loved it, while my inner 8-year-old hated it. Such is life. (Unrated as I didn't choose this for *me* or my reading pleasure, and I suspect the author's second novel will be better)
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