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With Valentine’s Day behind us, along with the controversial release of the 50 Shades of Grey movie (though we may not have recovered from either one emotionally), discussions about the quality of the source material for the salacious film have abounded. The 50 Shades series has been widely panned as poorly written tripe, unworthy of consideration from “real” readers. But is this fair? Certainly  it seems fine to denigrate what is literally ( literally ) sado-sexual Twilight fan fiction , but from a purely grammatical standpoint, this might not be totally deserved.(Although from a storytelling/character development standpoint, well, again, it's Twilight fan fiction .) This cat is horrified at your taste in literature. But in the interest of fair play, the good folks at Grammarly have once again performed amazingly thorough research into the subject, and have provided this handy infographic to make all the stats easy for us to see. And the verdict is thi...

Remember the book Bunnicula ? Where the household rabbit was actually a vampire who sucked the life out of all the celery and carrots in the vegetable crisper? Well, I have come to an unsettling realization. After months of living with my cat, Tybalt, and after Googling some summaries of Twilight , I have come to one conclusion: my cat is a Stephanie Meyer vampire*. See below the evidence that my cat is, in fact, the feline version of Edward Cullen. Or, alternatively, maybe Edward was really just a housecat. You be the judge. Like Edward Cullen, he withholds his affection for as long as possible , usually allowing his need for food dictate how much cuddling I get from him on a daily basis. He often snuggles up to me, purring, and then avoids me for days at a time, simply staring at me with fathomless golden eyes. I am never quite sure where I stand with him. Like Edward Cullen, his eyes turn a different color when he is hunting . His pupils dilate until his eyes are almost all blac...