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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
Two of my favorite things are cats and libraries and this book is about both! Very enjoyable. The author has a way of bringing you into the joy that is Dewey the cat. Definitely recommend.
Definitely an enjoyable story, not just about a cat, but about people and a community.
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What a heart warming book! One cold morning in Iowa, the librarians found an orange kitten in the return box. They loved him immediately and took him in. He brought life back into the small town of Spencer and quickly became famous all over the world. He was a part of the community for 18 years, and folx still miss him. A cat that lives at a library, what’s not to love?!
Wow. This was a heart warming tear jerker that had me laughing and crying more than once. I read sections aloud to my family.
This book was really more about the author and the town than the cat. I would say over 50% of the material cover those two things rather than the feline on the cover. I realize that in order to give the cat's story context, one has to give some information on the caretaker and the environment, and it's not that the stories aren't interesting, but I picked up a book ostensibly about a cat. If I'd wanted to read about Vicki's life story, or Spencer's history, I would have picked up a book about those topics.
The chapters jump around between "past" and "present" for about the first half of the book, at which they somehow merge and then the chapters jump around seemingly without chronological order. One chapter, her mother is dead, the next, she's alive. She seems to write about several times in her life twice, once without all the information, once with.
Also, she way anthropomorphizes this cat. I love cats, I love MY cat, I talk to my cat like she's a little lady rather than a kitty, but the fact is, she's a cat. And Dewey is a cat. A well socialized cat. Dewey probably could sense unhappiness, stress, anxiety, and other emotions that would cause him to go give comfort. But to say "that's how much Dewey cared" just sounded ridiculous, even to my cat-loving ears.
Sorry, this is a very jumbled review, but I found the book very jumbled as well.
The chapters jump around between "past" and "present" for about the first half of the book, at which they somehow merge and then the chapters jump around seemingly without chronological order. One chapter, her mother is dead, the next, she's alive. She seems to write about several times in her life twice, once without all the information, once with.
Also, she way anthropomorphizes this cat. I love cats, I love MY cat, I talk to my cat like she's a little lady rather than a kitty, but the fact is, she's a cat. And Dewey is a cat. A well socialized cat. Dewey probably could sense unhappiness, stress, anxiety, and other emotions that would cause him to go give comfort. But to say "that's how much Dewey cared" just sounded ridiculous, even to my cat-loving ears.
Sorry, this is a very jumbled review, but I found the book very jumbled as well.
A very cute story about a lovely cat. I wish I could have met Dewey, not just any cat can have such a large effect on a small town.
I am not entirely crazy about how this book was written, however I still teared up at the end.
I actually really loved reading this, even though while I was reading this I recognized that it was cheesy and fluffy and a bit self-absorbed (by the author, not by the cat). But I love cats and libraries and the small moments about Dewey making a difference (such as jumping on the lap of a severely disabled girl and having her smile or look up for the first time) was freakin' precious.