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Post by rallycairn on May 14, 2013 21:50:45 GMT 1
The final chapter of Incredible Journey, with the boy going up the trail by himself to take what the family friend knows will be a very blurry picture of a whiskey jack -- and then here comes Ch. Boroughcastle Brigadier of Doune with his "peculiar nautical roll" to his gait -- I could tear up just thinking about it.
Sheila Burnford's Bel Ria is also amazing. Piercing in its depiction of Bel Ria, like some of the chapters from the animals' points of view in Incredible Journey -- and also complex depictions of human relationships.
I was so glad to see when Bel Ria was issued in the New York Review Children's Collection edition and snatched it up, having remembered it from a Reader's Digest Condensed Books version when I was a kid. Those NYR books are nicely bound -- and BTW the easiest to find editions of the Carbonel books currently (in the US).
I see the NYR books also include at least one horsey title -- Eilis Dillon's The Island of Horses, set off the Connemara coast. (Haven't read it but it looks good.)
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Post by cally on May 18, 2013 7:01:19 GMT 1
Don't really read dog and cat fiction, but if you can ever get your hands on it, there is a wonderful book by Paul Gallico called 'The Silent Miaow'. My mother has a version that is full of photos OF Paul Gallico and his family and his cat. It is written from the cat's point of view and describes his tricks to win over the man of the house (Gallico) by being incredibly sweet and cunning. The Silent Miaow is his gambit for getting tid bits from his man's plate- you know, looking up at you, doing a feeble or non existent miaow because he doesn't have the energy to make a noise! I haven't been able to find this first edition with the photos which is a masterpiece and a MUST for cat lovers. Buy it if you ever see it because it is SO funny and so true!
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Post by Claire on May 18, 2013 19:54:11 GMT 1
The Silent Miaow is his gambit for getting tid bits from his man's plate- you know, looking up at you, doing a feeble or non existent miaow because he doesn't have the energy Haha my dad's cat does that! ;D Mine's not so subtle
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Post by garej on May 18, 2013 19:57:55 GMT 1
My Jack (a previous cat) once grabbed a whole naan bread from my plate and went trotting off with an expression like he just caught a mouse! He used to be a bugger for food, he would literally try and grab anything. I couldnt eat food without getting indigestion. He used to grab my hand as soon as it went out of the crisp bag and pull my hand towards him! He loved to eat crisps.
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Post by allyk on Jul 12, 2013 8:40:29 GMT 1
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Post by susanb on Jul 12, 2013 11:25:56 GMT 1
If ever a book was due for a reprinting, that's the one....I'd love to read it, but am so not shelling out $800 for a copy!
Another fun set of cat books are The Gordon's "Undercover Cat" series, the first of which was made into a movie by Disney, That Darn Cat.
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Post by allyk on Jul 12, 2013 13:29:47 GMT 1
Yes, I noticed that copies had become a 'tad' exorbitant, but if you're interested in scans let me know.
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Post by rallycairn on Jul 13, 2013 14:28:28 GMT 1
Wow, The Ghost of Opalina sounds fantastic! I'm sorry this one never came to my attention when I was a child.
allyk, I would be very interested in a scan. It sounds like an incredible book -- I love history, and a strong sense of atmosphere, and a capable heroine -- sounds like this one has all of those things in spades.
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Post by allyk on Jul 13, 2013 17:57:46 GMT 1
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Post by rallycairn on Jul 13, 2013 18:22:35 GMT 1
Thanks, allyk!
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Post by allyk on Jul 13, 2013 18:25:48 GMT 1
Welcome
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Post by susanb on Jul 13, 2013 20:25:09 GMT 1
Yea!!! Thank you so much allyk! Given the price of this book, short of a miracle I NEVER thought I'd get to read it! Downloaded and transfered it to my ereader....now the only problem is going to be keeping my hands off it till I finish my reading challenge books ;D Btw, incredibly impressed with quality of scan and that you'd managed to get it into both adobe and kindle format! I transfered to my nook, my kindle and my pc apps for both, so I should be safe
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Post by Claire on Jul 13, 2013 20:35:30 GMT 1
Hi careful you lot, the copyright fairy has been known to lurk around here before - best you keep such activities confined to PMs. That said ta!
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Post by susanb on Jul 13, 2013 20:39:42 GMT 1
mmm...true, word to the wise. Still, the copyright holder should bl**dy get it back in print so people could buy a copy...I would, in a heartbeat! Plus copies for my friends' kids! From the prices I see it going for, and the list of people begging on Amazon, I think there would be a vertiable stampede to buy it!
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Post by rallycairn on Jul 13, 2013 20:57:51 GMT 1
^Agree with all of the above. Claire, you are so right and I did think about that, but like Susan said, people are begging for this to be reprinted, and I would gladly assist in any way with getting that to happen! And paying for a new hardback! Or many of them! given the reviews.
I'm so lame I no longer had an unzip application on my computer, so first I had to download Winzip, get it uncompressed, then email it to my Nook ereader, which handled it beautifully -- right into my book library, not my "files" or "downloads," and it looks great.
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Post by allyk on Jul 13, 2013 21:12:53 GMT 1
YGiven the price of this book, short of a miracle I NEVER thought I'd get to read it! I completely understand. My library is great about getting books through inter-library loan, but there's a lot of books, especially British ones (*ahem*), that simply are not available in the US. They're often so old and so niche that you know they'll never be reprinted and you'll never get to read them unless a miracle happens.
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Post by allyk on Jul 14, 2013 23:54:03 GMT 1
I do have a spare copy of The Cats of Winkle Bay if someone wants to buy it (no dj, but I could try and photocopy the dj of mine) though. Your descriptions of this book definitely piqued my interest I saw from your book exchange thread that you've already sent out your extra copy and the copies to be found on the net are somewhat cost prohibitive. So, I was wondering if you had any interest in scanning your copy? If not I completely understand and it's not a problem, but if you do I can answer any questions about the process and the actual scanning should take less than 30 minutes for a book of that size.
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Post by darenc1 on Aug 28, 2013 23:18:05 GMT 1
I acquired a copy of The Silent Miaow a while back - it's in "the pile".
I've got a stack of cat biographies to read through, too!!
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Post by Claire on Aug 28, 2013 23:35:58 GMT 1
Just reading over this thread again.
Someone mentioned Doreen Tovey's cat books. Altho not normally a fan of autobiographical books, I would really recommend them, so funny and true. Anyone who has had cats will instantly connect with them. (One of her books also features a donkey)
And I just LOVED The Cats of Winkle Bay. Wrote about it more on the reading challenge thread. Ally just noticed your post about it and the sequel. I have them both - see my PM!
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Post by Charlotte on Dec 4, 2013 21:42:49 GMT 1
Think I liked Said the Dog to the Cat by Martin Armstrong as a child, presumably still got it somewhere.
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