© 2010. Here is Gabriel, Guardian of My Library (And All Things Feline Under His Domain) He's an Egyptian Mau, a sleek Black Mini-Panther with Black Stripes. We adopted eachother at an Animal Shelter 3 years ago. It was love at first purr. :) He is also an avid devourer of books, like me. However, whereas I prefer to collect, read, smell, admire and generally fondle my beloved books... Gabriel has taken to actually EATING some of the books he appears to desultorily believe don't belong amongst the stacks. These unfortunate tomes include every single version of anything by Marquez, as well as Machiavelli and a few of Nabokov's collections of short stories. For those few who are morbidly curious about his bizarre literary victims, I have started listing them in a separate collection entitled "Gabriel's Conquests".