#FridayBookShare The Dalai Lama’s Cat by David Michie #spirituality #humour

I created the Friday Book Share Game to help search for that ideal novel/author.

Anyone can have a go – all you need to do is answer the following questions based on a book you enjoyed reading (old or new) and use the hashtag #FridayBookShare – Simples!

First line of the book.

Recruit fans by adding the book blurb.

Introduce the main character using only three words.

Delightful design (add the cover image of the book).

Audience appeal (who would enjoy reading this book?)

Your favourite line/scene.

Here’s mine:

My acupuncturist recently recommended this book to me and I ordered it the moment I got home. I’ve only just started so I’m not far along, but what I’ve read so far has been wonderful.

First line/s –

I have a defecating bull to thank for the event that was to change my very young life – and without which, dear reader, you would not be reading this book.

Recruit fans by adding the book blurb –

‘In the months that followed I watched His Holiness working on a new book… I began to think that perhaps the time had come for me to turn my paws to a book of my own . . . one that tells my own tale . . . How I was rescued from a fate too grisly to contemplate, to become constant companion to a man who is not only one of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, but who is also a dab hand with the can opener.’

Not so much fly-on-the-wall as cat-on-the-sill, this is the warm-hearted tale of a small kitten rescued from the slums of New Delhi who finds herself in a beautiful sanctuary with sweeping views of the snow-capped Himalayas. In her exotic new home, the Dalai Lama’s cat encounters Hollywood stars, Buddhist masters, Ivy-league professors, famous philanthropists, and a host of other people who come visiting His Holiness. Each encounter offers a fresh insight into finding happiness and meaning in the midst of a life of busy-ness and challenge. Drawing us into her world with her adorable but all-too-flawed personality, the Dalai Lama’s cat discovers how instead of trying to change the world, changing the way we experience the world is the key to true contentment.

Featuring a delightful cast of characters, timeless Buddhist wisdom, and His Holiness’s compassion pervading every chapter, The Dalai Lama’s Cat is simply enchanting.

Introduce the main character – Mousie/Snow Lion/HHC (a cat with many names!) is curious, adventurous, and a purr-fect companion.

Delightful Design –

 

Audience appeal – Perfect choice for fans of feel good tales, humour, spirituality, heart-warming stories, cats!

Your favourite line/scene –

In the hours that followed, as I sat in the tranquil sunlight of His Holiness’s window, I began to realise the enormity of what I’d done. For almost all my young life I had been listening to the Dalai Lama point out that the lives of all sentient beings are as important to them as our own life is to us. But how much attention had I paid to that on the one and only occasion I was out in the world?

As for the truth that all beings wish to be happy and to avoid suffering – that thought hadn’t crossed my mind while I was stalking the mouse. I had simply let instinct take over. Not for one moment had I considered my actions from the mouse’s point of view.

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