The Queen of Last Hopes by Susan Higginbotham - about Margaret of Anjou (from Sourcebooks)
CAT NINJA THON OFFLINE
I'll warn you when I go offline to switch out computers. It's taking me forever to accomplish anything online. It will be a relief to have a computer that doesn't continually lock up. Husband surprised me by ordering a new computer almost immediately. We returned Kiddo to school on Monday and then went shopping for necessities and to check out whether or not Bookfool had a preference for particular monitor sizes (I'm not picky). Saturday's 24-hour Read-a-thon wiped me out, but I recovered pretty quickly. My thanks to Dutton books for the Advance Review Copy of Dewey's Nine Lives! My copy will be traveling to the home of a cat-loving reading buddy in Upstate New York. They like sitting in open windows, but that's as close as they get to the outdoors. It's difficult to turn a cat who loves spending time outside into an indoor-only pet, so we started out fresh with Fiona and Isabel. During her last years, we accompanied Miss Spooky outdoors and called her back if she started to walk out of sight. After our Spooky was injured several times (once by a pack of dogs that nearly killed her) and after I read about how cats are contributing to the sharp decline in songbird populations, we opted to make our cats indoor pets. I felt that way about the many cats who spent their days outdoors and those who were not neutered, although we have always neutered but we used to have indoor-outdoor cats. The author politely warns readers that some stories may make them cringe and she doesn't necessarily condone how the humans chose to care for their cats. I was surprised and pleased at the final story of the book, a continuation of the author's tale that connects to the story of another person with a very special cat. Highly recommended to pet lovers everywhere.ĭewey's Nine Lives is a feel-good book about cats that any pet lover will appreciate, even those who aren't enamored of cats. So, I can certainly understand why the author chose to do so.
I also kind of disliked the way the author inserted her own story into those of others - although, again, there was a relevance to her comments about her own experiences and I've found that even as I'm writing this review there are many, many stories that I'm bursting to share. Sometimes it takes the author a long time to get to the actual cat portion of a tale, although I always found that the background was relevant and helped you to understand the reason a particular cat was so special or important to helping a human get through rough times. These are small complaints, but the stories are often a bit meandering. I smiled a lot while reading this book and occasionally wiped away tears. Most of the cats in this book are in some way special because of how they responded to their people, kept them company in their darkest hours, made them laugh, came running when they called. I'll never forget the time I was crying and she climbed up on my chest, licked the tears off my face then tucked her head under my chin and stayed with me until I felt better. Our Sunshine, for example, was the most outgoing, empathetic and intelligent cat I've ever been owned by. You just have to read it to believe it.Īs I read each of these stories, I couldn't help but think of my own cats and how they've touched our lives, often in similar ways. Sir Bob Kittens, also known as "Ninja", a cat who was reserved enough that he was practically unadoptable but made his humans laugh when they discovered why he'd originally been nicknamed "Ninja". I had some personal favorite stories, like that of Mr. I enjoyed it that much.Įach chapter of Dewey's Nine Lives is headed by the name or names of the cats whose stories are revealed within the following pages. I gobbled down the first half of the book so quickly that I actually set Dewey's Nine Lives aside to force myself to extend the joy. It's as simple as that.ĭewey's Nine Lives is a book of nine stories - two Dewey tales and seven other stories about cats who in some way deeply touched the lives of their humans. Sometimes they fit us and they make us laugh in our darkest moments. They have personalities and quirks, good traits and flaws. We love them individually in the complex manner of all human love, because cats are living creatures. We don't love them as symbols or projections.
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