Good morning fellow bookworms. The big news in my family this week is that we adopted a cat! Meet Pavlushka, a seven year old female adopted from the Montreal SPCA. I have tried for many months to fill the cat shaped hole in my soul without success, and I am so, so grateful to Thad for accepting a new feline into our home. Lushka is a curious, affectionate cat according to her profile and she was certainly happy to be petted at the SPCA. Lushka really enjoyed being out of the shelter and being fussed over last night. She spent most of the evening on the sofa next to me demanding pets. She has already worked out how to open our kitchen cupboards. I think she’ll be a wonderful fit for our household. In more reading-related news, I did something I don’t often do this week – consigned a book to the did not finish pile. This was Ice Like Fire by Sara Raasch. As I mentioned in my review of the first book Snow Like Ashes, I found the plot rather predictable, and unfortunately for book two, the interesting worldbuilding was not enough to carry me through this…