We took Little Man, one of our two cats, to the vet today to be put to sleep. He had Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). Read the link if you want to know what that is, but basically it’s kind of mysterious and fatal, and you never really know for sure if they have it, and it’s rare. But it’s also the second time one the cats we’ve gotten from the Charlottesville SPCA got the disease, so apparently it’s not all that rare.
{ 3 comments }

Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.
This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.