TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Cat Pictures: My Literary Cat Reading "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Cat Pictures: My Literary Cat Reading "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Suddenly, after discovering To Kill a Mockingbird, my two cats turned into literary cats, and they've been reading the books from my bookshelf. I caught Che, reading Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls!

Che (named after Che Guevara, mind you) said his favorite line from the novel is:

"No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist." ~ from For Whom the Bell Tolls

I've posted the picture below of his brother, Tesla, reading To Kill a Mockingbird.

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On another matter, dear Readers, I'm reading tonight at the Book Party at the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension -- click here for more info -- join us, if you can. This Literary Event is a lot of fun.

Writers Program Publication Party
Thursday, June 12, 7-9:30 p.m.
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Blvd.
RSVP plim@uclaextension.edu or call 310-825-0107

My Boys - Che and Tesla

My Non-Ninja Cats and this Southern California Heat Wave

My Cats Make Me Laugh Every Day!

Tags: cats, kittens, pets, pictures, animals, photographs, funny

This is all for now,

Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.