fictional panthers

[alonewiththemoon]

I suppose it is a bad sign that it is not quite noon and I am already researching what sort of tasty cocktail beverage I might make for myself when I get home this evening...

Two doses of increased medication later, Ianto is like a new ferret again.  There's definitely a honeymoon period after an increase in pred so his current high energy and steady legs might not last, but it's nice to see while we've got it.  He gave me lots of kisses when I picked him up last night.  I didn't even mind his kibble breath at all.

At some point I plan to write a review of a fantastic book about Umm Kulthoum I just finished this week but I need more brain to do it with than I currently have.  It was a combination of biography and ethnomusicology and anthropology and 20th century history.  She led an amazing life, not just for her talent but for what she lived through and represented.  I have a much deeper understanding of why she is so important--and why more recent generations of Egyptians and other Arabs might be ambivalent about her.

Am currently reading Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, which I did purchase before it won the Newberry, honest.  I am totally loving it and think it's one of the best things he's ever written.  Silas is so totally Bagheera.

Wikipedia has a category for "fictional panthers."  There are four.  One of my favorite books when I was a kid was about a puma, but it is not listed among the fictional panthers.  I wish I could remember the name.  I can so clearly remember the cover...
 

 

Comments

[silas7.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to buy this for my mother. She's already a big fan of Coraline :)

[alonewiththemoon]

I think that the young adult niche is where Neil Gaiman really shines. At least those are my favorites of his novels/novellas.

[kami-yasha.livejournal.com]

It wasn't this -> http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=45417 was it?

[alonewiththemoon]

It was exactly that :-)

[kami-yasha.livejournal.com]

My boss wrote that book.

[alonewiththemoon]

Tell her your anthropologist-turned-belly-dancer friend is her biggest fan! :-)

Seriously, this book has impacted how I hear OK's singing and how I think about her songs.

[sanguineempathy.livejournal.com]

Here's a Stoat going Snow Crazy http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7870000/newsid_7875500/7875560.stm

[alonewiththemoon]

And I thought Sissy was high energy! ;-)