June 4 is Hug Your Cat Day
There is not much to say about Hug Your Cat Day. It's a day when cat owners are encouraged to hug their furry friends. Well, sure. Sounds great.
Here are a few cat-loving authors:
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman
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Gaiman often includes cats in his books. This is a quote from Coraline:
The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.”
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café by Alexander McCall Smith
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In a Guardian article about cats and writers David Barnett writes "Alexander McCall Smith seems to want to make his cat the main subject of any photo he appears in".
Jack of Spaces by Joyce Carol Oates
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An extremely prolific writer Oates once credited her productivity to her cat–"a fairly hefty, warmly furry cat on my lap who would not budge for hours" leaving her "no alternative but to write".
Let's Pretend this Never Happened: a Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
Blogger and author of this very funny memoir, Lawson is open about her struggles with anxiety and depression. In a recent post, she shared tips for coping when she's having a bad time. The list includes "hiding in blanket forts with my cats".
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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A young man searches Tokyo for his wife's cat and finds himself in increasingly odd situations.
Murakami has said:
I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.
3 thoughts on “June 4 is Hug Your Cat Day”
I’m about to read “The Guest Cat”, Takashi Hiraide
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3100532&R=3100532
while cuddling with my two older cats whom I admire for their almost absolute trust in me and
their effective stare at my eyes to communicate their need to be fed.
My current cat doesn’t like eye contact but the last one used to stare at me endlessly. Unfortunately the message she was trying to convey was “yep, I’m way smarter than this idiot”.
She was a great cat except for the judginess.
I don’t know how anyone who owns a cat can write a book. Do their cats NOT sit on their keyboards? Do their cats NOT block their screens?I must just ahve always owned very non-literary cats.