September 14, 2004

Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century

by Philip Hoare

I'm about halfway through this book and am loving every minute of it. It examines the conflict between those who admired what Oscar Wilde stood for and those who hated what he stood for. The conflict finally came to a head in yet another libel trial - this time by an actress starring in Wilde's scandalous play Salome against a Drudge-report style yellow journalist.

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The Bachelor's Cat

by L.F. Hoffman

What a charming little book! A touch sentimental, maybe, but unembarassedly (and unembarassingly) so. It's the sweet story of a bachelor who finds a stray kitten and how that kitten helps him choose between his hot, passionate, on-again-off-again girlfriend and the slightly pudgy but totally kickass woman he meets during an off phase with the girlfriend.

Hoffman definitely knows cats, let me tell you.

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