Scenes from a cat - Molière and the Demon-Monkey

Scene: Sherry likes to eat his food a little bit at a time, over hours; whereas Haley gobbles hers' down in a nanosecond. When I'm at work I lock Sherry up with his bowl of softies; but in the evening I like him to be free, so I keep his bowl next to me. This has a two-fold effect of keeping Haley amused, because she spends the rest of the night trying to outwit me, to get the food. And she's often successful.

Mabel - Monkey! [Grabs Haley and flips her on her back, and then props the kobo eReader on cat's belly.] Do you need your own kobo?

Haley [sounding like Fernando] - I want my own kobo.

Mabel - To keep you amused?

Haley - Yaaaa.

Mabel - This is Molière. Can you read in French?

Haley [no reply]

Mabel - She's giving me the silent treatment now. Monkey!

Haley [in Mabel's voice] - If you can't tell the difference between a monkey and a cat, well, you're even stupider than I assumed.

Fernando - Do you really think she'd say that?

Mabel - You mean be rude?

Fernando - It seems out of character.

Mabel - You're like the father who's blind to his little girls' faults. You don't realize what a demon you harbor in your home. [Looks down at the cat, still propped on her back, legs in the air.] Monkey-demon!

[The monkey-demon growls.]

Where are you reading?

This is fun. Kobo has asked people to upload pictures showing where they're reading ebooks (on any device). I love things like "the desk where you write" and "where you're reading" (along with what you're reading, of course!)

I'm not eligible to enter, but I'd like to anyway--except I don't have a phone to take a pic of myself sitting at the bus stop or something. I'll have to bring my camera along with me next time I go out!

Here's one of the things I like about little kobo--the frouffy curlicue designs. I think they intelligently picked up on the fact that Jane Austen is their #1 downloaded author, and designed the kobo for the Jane Austen audience. But with a plain enough exterior that those who aren't into curlicues won't really notice. You can see what I mean in the top left corner of this picture.

Geordie Voice

For all the British books I read, I have surprisingly learned a new word. I'm reading Joanna Trollope's The Other Family and she keeps mentioning "his Geordie voice." I finally had to google it and discovered it's the accent of someone from, or North of, Newcastle.