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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 11h

Cats moderate? Ha! (Also she sounds adorable)

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 14h

Here is the strange sound maker looking like a Totoro

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 15h

My little girl cat's meows sound either like a dinosaur sinking into the depths or a creaky door opening. I've never had a cat make such sounds and I've been enjoying them.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 20h

The maple at the entrance of a park has started turning very early this year.

Mostly green tree but now with a shot of red running down the center to the quarter point

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

She purred! What a sweet cat. You and your family are certainly fighting for her. Wishing the absolute best for you all. 💙

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Belle is a beauty! She looks very sweet too.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've been reading Covert Joy, a collection of her short stories, right now.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you, Jacqui! Felix gets so cranky if I pet him too much but it's just so hard not to.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's making me think of rewatching The House of Eliot.

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Art Herstory @handle.invalid · 24/09/2026

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has announced its acquisition of Tamara de Lempicka's 1923 painting "Her Sadness"! Until this year, the work had remained in the same family for 90 years.

A long, narrow painting of an unsmiling, white-skinned woman with straight red hair (cut off at about ear length) wearing dark clothing and a tan winter scarf, against an outdoor background with a leafless tree, and a tumble of buildings. She stands sideways such that the viewer sees one hand almost entirely within the pocket of the woman's skirt or pants. She turns toward the viewer so as to offer a 3/4 view of her face.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

poor Billie! Cars inflict so much damage in so many ways.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm so glad, Jules. I'm rooting for you guys that she pulls through. I grew up on a farm and a few of our cats were hit by cars. It's one of the hardest things. May she pull through and live to purr long.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh no! Poor Billie! Poor little girl. I'm glad she's home with you now. Two weeks is a long time to be at the clinic. I hope she gets better fast.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy to oblige! This is from this morning: Dorothea is looking out the window and Felix is purring away. He always squeezes his eyes shut hard when he's very happy.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The dress was somewhere between the color of raspberry and strawberry sorbet and incredibly light, stripped of all the heaviness of the earlier periods. it looked so close to the 1920's but not yet there.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thank you, David! I'm very curious to see what she'll look like when she's older. The dark markings will get darker and spread out more.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes! I think of her as a mystic too. I haven't but I plan to.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love her too. This is my first summer reading her and I hope there will be many more. ❤️

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I saw the most dreamy George Doeuillet dress from the 1910's and I was not allowed to take a picture of it. This is still killing me a little bit inside.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That's been my experience in the past with cats too. She's an unusual one (the other one, Felix, makes up for it by running hot and cold. He was so sweet until his teeth started coming in, poor guy)

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Too cute! I've given in to let her gnawing my hands sometimes. It makes her purr like mad.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you! Her eyes remind me of the sea: sometimes more grey, sometimes more blue.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Since this is her teenagehood, I can't imagine how extremely calm she'll be as an adult! So serene. This is how I regularly find her. Just lying around!

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you! She is the sweetest and calmest teenage cat I've ever had.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I crossed paths with an author who was/is doing this (despite being called out many times). I couldn’t figure it out but yep, you nailed it. exactly this.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you, Lisa! Looking forward to watching it.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I saw a great production over the weekend: Twelfth Night set to Duke Ellington’s music. The music from Play On! has been dancing through my head ever since. If I had the time, I’d go and see it again. If you’re in Chicago, I highly recommend it. chicago.suntimes.com/theater/2026...

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Review: If music is the food of love, then Chicago Shakes’ buoyant ‘Play On’ is a feast

The musical, based on the music of Duke Ellington that borrows its scaffolding from Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night,” shines with an exceptional cast that delivers show-stopping performan...

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you for sharing this! I love hearing authors talk about their work. 💙

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And that’s the difference between the 1881 version and the later New York one: the earlier one is more witty, more reminiscent of Austen and in the later version (which he edited 30 years later. older and wiser now), much of that was edited out.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I felt the same. The unusual ways the narrator sees the world is so lovable and endearing. I have intense admiration for the author for creating her.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I haven’t finished it yet but I have a feeling it will be among my top for this year.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s something so curiously heartwarming about this book. Somehow cheerful? This paired with the great suffering, generational pain, and violence running throughout makes it very unusual. You did a great job translating throughout! Such great word choices/turns of phrases.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Absolutely brilliant read! Thank you so much for your translation, @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. It's way up there with Three Apples Fell From the Sky for me. #MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Unlike my girlfriends and others around me, however, my glasses—like books—never betrayed me. They always waited for me to return to their world when I opened up another book or took them off my nightstand; they waited for me to open my eyes again. Egana Djabbaraova, My Dreadful Body

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I read Holy the Firm in undergrad and I have never forgot the line about every day being a god. RIP, Dillard. Thank you for your unwavering devotion to the writing life.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank you so much! 💜 it's been four weeks since I started and I've been slowly but surely gaining energy. I had hoped that would happen but still wasn't expecting it.

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time. I worship each god, I praise each day splintered down, splintered down and wrapped in time like a husk, a husk of many colors spreading, at dawn fast over the mountains split. Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm

Pink and purple asters in bloom with goldenrod behind on an overcast day

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tim! I can’t believe this happened. You two and trips. 😭

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thank you to @newvesselpress.bsky.social for publishing my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body. Our work together and the book itself mean a lot to me so it's especially gratifying to hear that My Dreadful Body made the National Book Award's longlist for Translated Literature!

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They are doing well! They both like to join me when I read. Here they are both jamming themselves behind my book stand (it's holding My Dreadful Body-- utterly terrific read). The table for it is small so things can get a bit chaotic. That's Felix' hindquarters and Dot's face behind him. 🤭

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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

hahahah i bet a lot of the audience was doing that on that day. La Traviata is coming here in the spring and I wonder if it's the same production as your upcoming one? I'm hoping for sumptuous.

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