Azrael's Boo Award of Excellence
This coveted award is not something that you can apply for. It's
just something that Azrael grants as she sees fit. Below are the few that
she has granted this stamp of approval!
Check out Azrael's Special Year in Review 1998
Literary Excellence
Each month for the Kitty Critics' Corner Book Review pages, Azrael gives
her golden paw print of approval to one work of literature. Here are the
winners thus far:
March 1998 -- Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (review
on main
book page)
April 1998 -- Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (review on sci-fi
page)
May 1998 -- Sharan Newman's Death Comes As Ephiphany (review
on medieval
page)
June 1998 -- Peter Carey's Oscar & Lucinda (review
soon on main
book page)
July 1998 -- Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga - which includes
the first trilogy in his Midkemia series and the Empire trilogy he wrote
with Janny Wurts (review on fantasy
page)
August 1998 -- Vilhelm Moberg's The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)
(review on historical
fiction page)
September 1998 -- Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain (review
on historical
fiction page)
October 1998 -- Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time (review
on Kids books
page)
November 1998 -- Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse,
collected by Henry Beard. (review on
Cat Related Books page)
December 1998 -- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (review
on main book page)
January 1999 -- Perfume by Patrick Süskind (review on
historical
fiction page)
February 1999 -- Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of The Dog
(review on sci-fi
page)
March 1999 -- Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams (review on
main
book page)
April 1999 -- Stranger Than Fiction by Mike Chunn (review on
nonfiction page
May 1999 -- Jennifer Lash's Blood Ties review on
our main book page
Note: we've had a bit of a discussion around here on what actually qualifies
as literary excellence. Azrael has put her paws down and insisted that any
book that she deems worthy can be said to have literary excellence, and she's the boss!
So, whether or not we all agree on the "literary" merits of the book, Azrael is pointing
out the book's excellence with this award. Just wanted to make that clear....now, back to work.
June 1999 -- Diane Gabaldon's Outlander review on
historical
fiction page
July 1999 -- Karin Boye's Kallocain review on
Crystal's new page
of great Scandinavian Literature
Web Sites that have been granted Azrael's Boo Award:
Cat
Lover's Site - attractive and educational
Ms.
Crane's Love of Cats - love her layout and content
Home of 3 Good Cats
--this page has an excellent layout and original cat cartoons
Cats In Company!
-- another great site with tons of useful cat info -- and a club to join as well
Catstuff
- cat graphics and much much more
Cat PoPurrE
-- a lovely site filled with lots of cat humor, including bumper stickers, cat physics and cat
jokes
Remmy & Sidney's HOmepage
-- excellent site filled with lots of information, photos, cat page directory and more!
Diamantino Mendes' page -- a beautiful
collection of photographs -- some of adorable kitties!
Azrael has granted
Elizabeth A. Kimber a boo-award just for being such a swell person (who sends
her goodies in the mail ;-)
Musical Excellence
First in formost in Azrael's heart is the music of Tim and Neil
Finn. She's been enjoying their music since she was a kitten. Check out
Neil's most current project, his solo album Try Whistling This!
She's anxiously awaiting Tim's next project as well. If you'd like to know
more about these fine peformers, check out our Finn
Brothers pages.
Azrael's Award of Lap Excellence
These winners are many and documented by photographs. Click here
to see them.
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