I'm a sucker for animal books. This one is really sweet and I learned a lot about owls. The story was a bit thin, plumped out with anecdotes about bioI'm a sucker for animal books. This one is really sweet and I learned a lot about owls. The story was a bit thin, plumped out with anecdotes about biologists in general, but I enjoyed reading it and I loved that she gave a warning to stop reading if you didn't want to read about the owl dying.
Of course I kept reading and of course I cried....more
This review is by Pippi, guest reviewer, age 1 and a half; tabby cat.
This is a book about cats who live in the wild and they catch mice and eat them aThis review is by Pippi, guest reviewer, age 1 and a half; tabby cat.
This is a book about cats who live in the wild and they catch mice and eat them and they fight. There are four colonies of cats and one of them is mean and steals the other colonies food.
At first I thought this book was hard to read because even though it's written in English they try to translate cat words into English so it's hard to follow at first until you get used to the cat words.
At the beginning of the story Rusty is a housecat and humans take care of him but then he decides he wants to be a warrior so he joins a clan of cats. They never say what happens to his humans but I bet they miss him a lot. There are not many humans in this book and the ones that are are bad humans. I live with nice humans so I don't know what this is like.
Mama says I should read Watership Down because the human author did a nice job of making a story about animals that sound real, kind of like this book does, but that story is about bunnies and who cares about bunnies anyway?...more
This is the second in the series of cat books given to me by my cats for Christmas. I liked this, but couldn't help but compare it to "The Cat Who CouThis is the second in the series of cat books given to me by my cats for Christmas. I liked this, but couldn't help but compare it to "The Cat Who Could Read Backwards", which was much better in every way.
Not that they deserve comparison - Wish You Were Here is a modern mystery, written in a sassy style, where "The Cat Who Could Read Backwards" is more of a cozy mystery. But they both prominently feature cats, and they are mysteries, so there you go.
As a mystery, I was a bit annoyed by a couple things that killer overlooked. If everyone in town knows Harry, the protagonist postmistress, reads postcards, why would she and the police assume that the killer did not realize she was on to his warnings? (Postcards of gravesites, with the words "wish you were here"typed on the back. I don't consider this a spoiler, as it's on the description on the back of the book).
As a cat book, it's fun, but even an animal lover like me doesn't think animals are that aware of what us humans are up to.
Still, a fun read, good for the airplane or the beach. ...more
**spoiler alert** Anyone who reads this book will want to know that the book is written about Dewey's entire life, including his death at the age of 1**spoiler alert** Anyone who reads this book will want to know that the book is written about Dewey's entire life, including his death at the age of 19. I'm a crier and the last two chapters had me bawling.
The book is as warm, touching and sweet as the photo on the cover. It's almost exactly what I expected, a heartwarming story and not exactly masterfully written.
Still, it's a nice read. I wish we'd have gotten more detail about the other people in the library instead of just being told what they were like. I especially would have liked details about how Dewey's presence made staff relations better (how did people act before he arrived?).
**Spoiler**
I was really interested in, and frankly disgusted by, the meeting held by the library board when Dewey got older. Apparently there had been "complaints" because Dewey wasn't as handsome as he used to be. Board members felt it wasn't appropriate for him to live in the library any more. The meeting they held was one of the scariest examples of groupthink and just how screwed up committees can be that I've heard of. I'd love to see this situation used as an example for how a board shouldn't work....more
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