"A Tale of Two Kitties"... Ronan and Pandora read a book

My most excellent Acting Instructor is also a part-time novelist.  The second installment in his Junction Chronicles trilogy is called A Murder of Crows and I shared it recently with the kittens.  This is how it went...

Ronan looks as if he is quite stunned by a passage he just read...!

Pandora isn't sure if she approves of that cliff-hanger chapter ending.

".... Whoa..."

Princess Pandora has found a new favourite book :)

"Beautiful Joe"

Joseph Oliver Moneen, or "Joe", was my first feline friend.  After he passed away from cancer two years ago, I wrote a song for him called "Beautiful Joe". 

Imagine my emotion when I found a young adult novel recently titled "Beautiful Joe".  Written by Canadian author Margaret Marshall Saunders in 1982, and based on a true story, the book follows a cruelly abused and mutilated dog named Joe as he learns to love and trust again.  Despite his horrible disfiguration, the other characters in the book understand that Joe is truly beautiful -- inside and outside -- regardless.  And the best part:  It is narrated by the Joe the dog himself.

I am going to be reading -- and bawling about -- this book, and shall therefore do you the honour of blogging (and bawling) about it over the weeks to come.  It's going to be dreadfully emotional.  I can already tell...