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It's National Library Workers Day! I asked my human to snag a photo of me and my compatriots, but it didn't quite turn out as I hoped. #ladygreycat looks lovely, but you can always count on Secret Agent #00Cat to muck things up. #nlwd16 #mycoworkers

Secret Agent #00Cat has grown suspicious of my tree topper, so she's taken up position on the complete works of Shakespeare to keep an eye on it for me... #weepingangels #dontblink

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from #BookweightCat, #LadyCatGrey, and Secret Agent #00Cat (if you can find her). Wishing you a wonderful season! (Hopefully full of good books 😘) #christmascats #stealthykitty #waitthesepresentsarentmine

One final #aliceinwonderland post: a #shelfiesunday of the shelf most of my Alice books live on. It includes two books not featured this week, illustrated editions released for the 150th anniversary, one with art by Salvidor Dali. #BookweightCat, #LadyCatGrey, and Secret Agent #00Cat decided to make themselves comfortable. #aliceturns150

Today, the cats and I are featuring the Annotated Alice. Two editions, no less! Secret Agent #00Cat is lying on top of the Definitive Annotated Alice (the third edition). I grew up with my parents' copy the first edition of Martin Gardener's beautiful work, and I felt awesome when I bought a copy that was even more comprehensive than theirs. And then I saw they released a 150th anniversary edition. And I had to have it. (#LadyCatGrey is chilling on that one). My sister asked if I was going to replace my third edition, and I'm just thinking "...no..." Because, of course, I hope to someday hope to inherit my parents first edition, and then I'll have three of the four editions :)

For the actual anniversary of Alice, Secret Agent #00Cat is looking at the far reach@of the book with my foreign language Alice collection: The pink one in the middle is in Russian. I bought it in Moscow when I went to Russia after college graduation. My second one is in Spanish (back left). My sister bought it for me when she visited my brother-in-law's family in Colombia. The Japanese Alice (back right) not only has the most adorable illustrations, but was a gift from one of my college classmates. She was on the Russia trip, and when she went to study in Japan, she went shopping for me :) My sister bought me the Italian copy (top front) in her honeymoon. The Latin edition (bottom front) was a 25th birthday present from my parents. The Russian and Italian copies both include Through the Looking-Glass, bit for the others, well, something to work on ;) #aliceinwonderland #aliceturns150

Bookweight Cat's Day Off Part 5: Okay, now, I’m just getting jealous. Unlike Bookweight Cat and Secret Agent 00Cat I don’t usually get to lounge around in the afternoon and play cribbage :(

Secret Agent 00Cat wants to celebrate International Women's Day with one of her favorite female characters, Jane Eyre, written by one of her favorite female authors, Charlotte Brontë. (And, no, Charlotte Brontë did not live long enough to sign my book. It was kindly inscribed by Jasper Fforde, who incidentally writes about another awesome female character, Thursday Next!)