693 reviews for:

Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats

Courtney Gustafson

4.66 AVERAGE

writerinhiding's review against another edition

5.0

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I had hoped that I would come to love this book the way I have come to love Lola, Sad Boy, MK, Monkey, Dr. Big Butt, Francois, Christian Dior, Georgie, Feral Gerald and all the cats whose lives were improved by Courtney Gustafson. The book is a reflection of the love and care she puts into her rescue work. It resonated with me for how deeply one can feel empathy, as almost a kind of pain. That pain can also coexist with other pains of witnessing, helping and surviving.

Gustafson's writing has an important message: that most of us are animals abandoned by a system that is meant to care for us. One way to survive this abandonment is to choose each other everyday, be it human or animal. That is the meaning of community.

amydiddle's review against another edition

4.5

reflective slow-paced

mmseiner's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

powerbooker's review against another edition

4.5

emotional inspiring fast-paced

elizabethtys's review against another edition

4.0

emotional inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

miriamvqzd's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

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A moving memoir, sadder than expected but it offers a deep reflection of being a young women in the U.S.A.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Sexual harassment

kaitrose's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

irrekko's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Six Stars

hannahsantoyo's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective

jennnayyy_o's review against another edition

4.0

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