if you’re awake and you see this, would you say a prayer our cat comes home? We can’t find him and think he may have slipped outside when I took the recycling out.

quality goods at PetCo today

In his first interview as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV talked about his concerns about income inequality, polarization and the need for peace.

Are there any happy novels that are also well written? I’ve bit on a depressing fiction tear. Currently reading Shuggie Bain, but the last several books were also heavy.

You know when a book is so good you’re sad when it ends? I feel that way about Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Just finished. I don’t think I’ve ever loved or related to a main character so much.

currently reading Julien Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending. One of my reading goals for this year is to read more Booker Prize winners

We moved the rest of our books out of the storage unit today. I’d forgotten we had most of these. Now we need to find a place to put them all!

I started cataloging our books on GoodReads (which is super easy to do with the scanning feature) and am astonished at the titles we have that I wasn’t aware of or somehow forgot about. All of Henry James! Dostoyevsky short stories! a tiny Maritain tract! 576 cataloged so far and ~1.5 bookcases left

I love this ex libris, from a used book I bought several years ago.

two disconnected thoughts:

1) we’re approaching that time of year when I listen to “walking in the air” on repeat.

2) I wish there were Black Friday sales on normal things like olive oil and coffee?

I’m reading Baldwin’s Go Tell It On The Mountain for the first time and can hardly put it down. I’m about 70 pages in, where Florence decides to move to NY.

just a cat in a sweater cuddling with a vintage doll