Over at the Literary Potpourri blog, lovely blogger Mallika is running her Reading the Meow event this week; I’ve been able to take part a couple of times before and I was determined to do so again this year. I wasn’t initially sure what I was going to choose, as I always try to pick something off the TBR for reading events, until I suddenly had a flash of inspiration. I have tentatively started reading my way through the books of Colette in order, and I realised that I had skipped one particular title when I re-read all of the Claudine books recently. That was a slim volume, written when Colette was still under the wings of her first husband, Willy, and I’ve only recently managed to get hold of a copy. The title in French is “Dialogues de bêtes”, rendered here in English by translator Maire Kelly as “Barks and Purrs“. Colette was known for her love of her animal companions, and as you might gather, one of these is a feline – so the book was the perfect choice! First published in…
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