Announcing Reading the Meow 2024: A Week-long Celebration of Cats and Books

I'm pleased to announce another edition of Reading the Meow here on Literary Potpourri! Reading the Meow is a week-long celebration of cats and books or should that be cats in books where anyone who's interested is welcome to join in--just read as many or as few books as you like with a cat (or…

Reading the Meow 2023: Wrapping Up

An entire week of reading and sharing cat books seems to have zoomed past and we're at the end of #ReadingtheMeow2023. I thoroughly enjoyed myself this week reading everyone's posts and reviews and sharing my own and hope you did too. A big thank you (or rather Thank Mew) to everyone who joined in sharing…

Guest Post: Book Review: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) by T. S. Eliot #ReadingtheMeow2023

Today, for #ReadingtheMeow2023 I'm sharing my mother's thoughts on her third pick, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) by T.S. Eliot, the second volume of pawetry to be added to Reading the Meow this week (the other is Jan's review of Cat Poems). * * * How can Cat Week be complete without a…

Guest Post: Review: ‘The Cats of Ulthar’ (1920) by H.P. Lovecraft #ReadingtheMeow2023

#ReadingtheMeow2023 has been seeing some marfurlous posts so far, from mystery fiction with catectives to pawetry to some furry funny books (find all the posts and reviews so far on the Reading the Meow Page). Today's post is the second pick from my mother and it adds some eeriness in to the mix with a…

Book Review: Don’t Trust the Cat (2023) by Kirsten Tracy #ReadingtheMeow2023 #15BooksofSummer

My second read for #ReadingtheMeow2023 is an American children’s adventure story which puts its own little twist on the body swap plot introduced (I think) in F Anstey’s Vice Versa. My thanks to Chronicle Books for a review copy of this book via Edelweiss. Don’t Trust the Cat (2023) is a children’s adventure story with…

Announcing #ReadingtheMeow2023: A Week of Reading Books With Cats in them!

What else is a more comforting combination than cats and books--reading books sitting with our cats, or reading books with cats in them, or best of all reading books with cats in them while one's cats are sitting with one! To celebrate cats and books, here's announcing Reading the Meow, a week dedicated to this…