Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS, Heinlein...
...When we moved here we counted 28 mice, and we didn't count twice. I got one cat. He died. So I was looking for a new cat now because I had mice. And I was very upset for the kids. I went all over looking. Somebody told me they were giving away cats over at the clinic at 59th Street. I went and I got this one here, which was named Mollie, and I changed it to Jangles. When I got back, there was my girlfriend's friend waiting for me with another cat, Patches, which...
...nearly every year. For 1985, it is Solomon the Rusty Nail (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12.95). A jaunty rabbit finds that he can turn himself into the useless metal object any time he wants to. But Solomon shows off once too often, and he is captured by Ambrose the hungry cat. Although the rabbit avoids becoming a dinner by remaining a nail, he is trapped in that role when the angry feline hammers him into the side of a house. The nail whiles away the time by counting to a zillion, until the cat accidentally sets the house on fire, allowing...
Graves dismissed such work as the price he had to pay to write poetry: "Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat." Ironically, he was a livelier and in some ways more interesting writer when he catered to public tastes. Goodbye to All That still crackles with malice and the vivid absurdities of trench warfare. I, Claudius, the imaginary memoir of a Roman emperor whom historians had largely derided or ignored, manages to be both intelligent and spellbinding...
...clear, a good deal of old English charm remains. More than 30,000 public houses continue to offer wayfarers in England an inimitable hospitality, glowingly captured in Photographer Andy Whipple's color pictures. Pub exteriors may go from Tudor austerity to Victorian baroque, and the signs swing from the Cat and Custard Pot Inn to the Parson's Nose. But the good ones all offer similar pleasures indoors: a friendly host, welcoming bar and foamy pints that are still worth sampling. This book slakes nearly every sense except thirst...