My sister and I, both book loving-tabbies, recently decided that it was time to spread our love of books and reading into the wider world (You can visit her blog, which deals exclusively with children's and YA lit here: http://qwendysbox.blogspot.com). Our decision to blog stems from our love of books, our need to practice our writing (we're still babies), and our desire to reach out to the world at large; ultimately, we want to show the world that cats are more than just cute balls of fur; as the legendary atheist Richard Dawkins remarked in The God Delusion, one can compare the "organizing of atheists" with the "herding of cats. . . . Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored."
This blog, along with my sister Qwendy's, echoes the spirit of Dawkins words. We are independent tabbies who think for ourselves. In addition to a smorgasbord of books, our blogs offer up our opinions on a host of book-related topics. My focus, however, differs from my sisters. While I am also concerned about the dearth of books in school libraries, the lack of quality, kid-friendly reading material in school libraries, and the mindless teach-to-the-test drills that are surely instrumental in the alarming increase of aliterates in our youth, for example, so as to not needlessly trample on my sister's paws, my focus will be on adult literature, as well as opinion pieces on reading, public libraries, and bookstores.
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