ebooks are to actual books as pictures of cats are to actual cats curled & purring in your lap as you read.—
Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) January 28, 2013
I predict that with that tweet, Joyce Carol Oates provided the opening presentation slide for at least 50% of ALA presentations this summer. I further predict that 75% of those presentations will use it ironically (librarians are so ironic), and 25% will use it earnestly (we are also a very earnest bunch).
If anyone has a good public domain or CC-licensed photo of Joyce Carol Oates with a cat (and a book) in her lap, let me know. I have a presentation I’m working on.
(Edited to add: Thanks to @joshhonn for alerting me to the Writers and Kitties tumblr)
Joyce Carol Oates & cat, from http://writersandkitties.tumblr.com/
Happy Friday.
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