Library Notes
September 24, 2003
By Pansy Hundley, Librarian.
I’ve told you before that Suzanne is an animal lover, extraordinaire. She loves cats and dogs and just about every other four-footed animal.
Recently, she had considered getting another cat, but talked herself out of it. She made the statement that if one came and adopted her, she’d take it. It was hardly a week later that she went out on her front porch and there, sleeping on a table, was the adopter, come to make herself known to the adoptee. She looked to be about eight to ten weeks old. So, that cat became a member of the family.
When I asked Cheyenne what that kitty cat’s name was, he said "Kitty Cat". So, that it is. It’s like John Wayne’s dog in one of his movies that’s named "Dog."
I was up there the other week-end and a mama kitty appeared, marked up like the adopter kitty, so we figured that was Kitty Cat’s mama. Mama Cat looked as though she had missed several meals and we could tell she had kittens somewhere around. We gave her food and she gobbled it up so fast, she didn’t even know, or care, what she was eating.
Suzie was out on the porch later and hollered at us to come and look. There had appeared four kittens, in various colors, that looked about five or six weeks old. They were old enough to know what that cat food in that bowl was.
They were a little skittish, but we held them and oohed and ahhed over them.
There was one that looked Siamese, sort of a very light beige color, with dark brown on her ears and tail, with gorgeous blue eyes. I allowed as how that one might come to live at my house.
All kitties, Mama, and a big brother, about Kitty Cat’s size, so probably a litter mate, hung around, as though they had just moved in. Suzie did not know what she was going to do with all of them. I told her that’s what she got for making such a statement about adopting a kitty. Seemed as though everyone in the neighborhood heard it!
And, I must end the kitty story for right now. There is more to the story, so continue reading next week. Meantime, here is your "book of the week". Greg Iles does the honors, with his new one, entitled "The Footprints of God."
In the heart of North Carolina’s Research Triangle stands a corporate laboratory much like the others nearby. But behind its walls, America’s top scientists work around the clock to attain the holy grail of the 21st century—a supercomputer that surpasses the power of the human mind.
Appointed by the president as ethicist to Project Trinity, Dr. David Tennant finds himself in a pressure cooker of groundbreaking science and colossal ambition. When his friend and fellow scientist is murdered, David discovers that the genius who runs Project Trinity was responsible and that his own life is in danger. Unable to reach the president, and afraid to trust his colleagues, David turns to Rachel Weiss, the psychiatrist probing the nightmares that have plagued him during his work at Trinity. Rachel is skeptical of David’s fears, but when an assassin strikes, the two doctors must flee for their lives.
Pursued across the globe by ruthless National Security Agency operatives, David and Rachel struggle to piece together the truth behind Project Trinity and the enormous power it could unleash upon the world. As constant danger deepens their intimacy, Rachel realizes the key to Trinity is buried in David’s disturbed mind. But Trinity’s clock is ticking…….
Man is being held hostage by a machine that cannot be destroyed. Its only hope --- a terrifying chess game between David and the Trinity computer, with the cities of the world as pawns. But what are the rules? How human is the machine? Can one man and woman change the course of history? Man’s future hangs in the balance, and the price of failure is extinction."