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September 6 is National Read A Book Day!

Go ahead, read a book today!

You can say you have to, since it's a holiday.

Highly recommend a cup of tea, and a cat in the lap while reading.

Before you do, however, here's an artified image of Chili Bruce for Caturday.

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To Buy, To Read, To Listen

September 6 was National Read a Book Day 📚

📚 September 7 is National Buy a Book Day

Don't you think that should be reversed?

Buy a book, and THEN read it..!?!

Unless you are like me (and in honor of September is National Library Card Sign-up Month), and borrow most of your reading material from the library, buying is a rather big deal.

I have stacks of books next to my bed...gathering dust...while I gleefully listen to audiobooks and ebooks downloaded to my phone, and at least once a month I check out a book at the library, then sit down and read it in one go without leaving the building. 

Which is why I hesitate to purchase another book; seems wasteful to buy them, then let them sit.

My sister tells me that I need to support authors and bookstores and BUY MORE BOOKS!

I've just purchased an audiobook; does that count, sis?

Audiobook I am currently listening to:

-Secrets of the Lost Ledgers by C. J. Archer: Book #5 in the Glass Library Series

Next audiobooks queued:

-What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley: Book #11 in the Flavia de Luce Series
-A Swarm of Butterflies by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett: Book #6 in the Dr. Nell Ward Mysteries
-Vows & Ruins by Helen Scheuerer: Book #2 in the Legends of Thezmarr Series
-Viciously Yours by Jamie Applegate Hunter: Book #1 in the Fae Kings of Eden Series

Actual books that I have that I REALLY REALLY want to read, when I get time:

-Inductions Dangerous by John Bellen (I Have Three Cats Blog)
-Hidden in Blood, Place of Temptation, and Lake of Tears by Bilinda P. Sheehan, Books #5, 6, 7 in Hariet Quinn Series
...and many more!

For a bookish Caturday, here is Celestial Sweetie, with my stack of to-be-read books in the background.

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Read a Book Day

"6 September is National Read-a-Book Day, a holiday where book lovers, readers, writers, and illustrators can come together to celebrate prose. 

This holiday is wonderful because everyone can celebrate: children who are too young to read can curl up with parents during story time; teens can share their favorite YA tales. and adults can turn to their favorite chapters in romance novels or spooky Stephen King horrors."

Quote from esparklearning.com

Some of my favorite authors have books coming out in the next six months:

• Laurie R. King: Mary Russell series, Book 18 "The Lantern's Dance"
• Susan Hill: Simon Simon Serrailler series, Book 12 "The Sound of Footsteps"
• Nick Louth: DCI Craig Gillard series, Book 12 "The Body in Nightingale Park"
• Joy Ellis: Jackman & Evans series, Book 10 "The River's Edge"
• Elly Griffiths: Brighton Mysteries, Book 7 "The Great Deceiver"
• Richard Osman: Thursday Murder club series, Book 4 "The Last Devil to Die"
• Marion Todd: Clare Mackay series, Book 6 "A Blind Eye"
• Anthony Horowitz: Hawthorne & Horowitz series, Book 4 "Close to Death"
• Benjamin Stevenson: Ernest Cunningham series, Book 2 "Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect"
• Jim Butcher: Dresden Files, Book 18 "Twelve Months"
• C. S. Harris: Sebastian St Cyr series, Book 19 "What Cannot Be Said"
• Ashley Weaver: Electra McDonnell, Book 4 "Locked in Pursuit"
• Deanna Raybourn: Veronica Speedwell, Book 9 "A Grave Robbery"
• Robert Galbraith: Cormoran Strike, Book 7 "A Running Grave"
• Rebecca Yarros: The Empyrean, Book 2 "Iron Flame"
• Kelley Armstrong: Haven's Rock, Book 2 "The Boy Who Cried Bear"

 My cup runneth over with good writing, great authors, and terrific whodunits!

And do you know how much $$$ is spent on books?

ZERO!  ZIP!  NIL!

I get 'em from the LIBRARY.

September is National Library Card Sign-up Month

Get out, stay in, listen, turn a page, or swipe a screen; just read.

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National Read A Book Day

September 9 is National Read A Book Day!

In general, cats like books because they make good places to sleep, but one never knows if they don't absorb the writing as they nap!

I've recently finished book #6 of the Cormoran Strike series, by Robert Galbraith, entitled "The Ink Black Heart"; fabulous!

Am currently re-reading the DCI Craig Gillard series by Nick Louth.

Other authors who have new books coming out this month:

Wrexford & Sloane series, by Andrea Penrose

DI Haskell & Quinn Crimes, by Bilinda P. Sheehan

Detective Clare Mackay series, by Marion Todd

What are you reading?

National Read A Book Day!

📚September 6 is National Read A Book Day!📚

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Don't work and read a book!

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National Read A Book Day!

Are you kidding me?

As if I need a specific date to remind me to read!

In honor of this TREMENDOUSLY IMPAWTANT DAY, celebrated every September 6th,
I give you the just released and newest book in Sofie Kelly's "Magical Cats Mysteries" series:

"A Case Of Cat and Mouse"
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published September 1st 2020 by Berkley Books
ISBN0440001161 (ISBN13: 9780440001164)
Magical Cats Mystery #12

"When librarian Kathleen Paulson moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, she had no idea that two strays would nuzzle their way into her life. Owen is a tabby with a catnip addiction and Hercules is a stocky tuxedo cat who shares Kathleen's fondness for Barry Manilow. But beyond all the fur and purrs, there's something more to these felines."

I have the entire series!

So, for today's 'holiday', I am reading my copy of "A Case Of Cat and Mouse"...

Oops!

Why, oh why do I use a bookmark that sports a ribbon?
That ribbon attracts CATS!!!

What will you read today?

Jigsaw Puzzle

108Celestial Chuck and Book

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Angel Allie left for The Rainbow Bridge

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Book Reviews for National Read A Book Day September 6

National Read A Book Day: September 6

In honor of yesterday's holiday, here are three books that I think you may enjoy.

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Arthur: The Dog who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home
Author: Mikael Lindnord
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Greystone Books (September 12, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1771643374
ISBN-13: 978-1771643375

Arthur is an amazing dog

Click here to watch ESPN.com's 15 minute video about Arthur

What do you do, when love strikes you, even at the worst possible time and place?

Mikael Lindnord and his three companions were in an extreme adventure race in Ecuador, which included biking, walking, and kayaking through mountains, jungles, and huge expanses of wild terrain for days.  The racers barely sleep, live on starvation rations, and push their bodies and minds to endure hardship, just to get to the finish line.  When a scruffy dog shows up, the foursome share some of their meager food stores with him.  Then, as they set out on the next leg of the race, the dog follows.  And follows.  And follows.

This book is written by the man who found a way to embrace the gift of the dog's love, at the harshest and most unpleasant time, and what he did to make sure they were never parted again.

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Finding Gobi: The True Story of a Little Dog and an Incredible Journey

by Dion Leonard

Hardcover, 272 pages

Published June 1st 2017 by HarperCollins UK

ISBN 0008227950 (ISBN13: 9780008227951)

Seriously, isn't this doggie simply the cutest?!?

Ultramarathoner Dion Leonard, originally from Australia but living in Scotland, is running an four-day race in China.  A little dog starts to follow him, as he strides out huge distances over sand, rock, mountains, and woods.  Extreme heat, lack of hydration, and the sheer brutality of the race is enough to wear down a grown man, but a little dog?  Dion tells us of his desire to bring Gobi back to Scotland, but what ensues is more of a test than any ultramarathon he's every encountered before.

The combination of human competition and compassion, the ups and downs of finding a life-form that fills you with happiness and unquestioning love, and the technology of bringing a world-wide group of supporters together while solemnly walking door to door in a Chinese community, really drew me into the book.

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Ellie's Story: A Dog's Purpose Puppy Tale

by W. Bruce Cameron

Hardcover: 208 pages

Publisher: Starscape; First edition (April 14, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0765374692

ISBN-13: 978-0765374691

Okay, this book is written for the youngsters, but I've enjoyed several W. Bruce Cameron books, so why not another?  The book is told by Ellie, first a puppy then an working search-and-rescue dog.  Her handler Jakob trains her, but when he is wounded, she works with Maya who also shares her household with three cats!  Maya and Ellie go out on one mission where Ellie's impressive sniffing skills are damaged by chemicals.  So they begin working in classrooms and schools, to teach children what to do if they get lost or cannot find their family.  One day, a little boy is lost while Maya and Ellie are at the school; does Ellie still have what it takes to save that boy?

I didn't know this was a children's story, until just now as I researched the publication information!  It's a good story, and I gulped down a lump in my throat more than once.  I recommend it to anyone.

Two true stories, and a fictionalized one, and YES, I know these are about DOGS, but four-footed, furry love is what we are all about, right?!?  RIGHT!?!

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Happy National Read A Book Day!