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4.66 AVERAGE
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I am not on Insta or TikTok so I had never heard of the author or Poets Square before. But her grad school foray has apparently paid off because her writing is fantastic! I was invested in her stories right away. She blended her own life history and her cat stories beautifully.
Overall nothing revolutionary, but I found it to be a touching and meaningful memoir. Great for cat people (though there is one chapter with cat death, maybe skip that if you need to)
The audio version is very nice and read (very well) by the author.
Overall nothing revolutionary, but I found it to be a touching and meaningful memoir. Great for cat people (though there is one chapter with cat death, maybe skip that if you need to)
The audio version is very nice and read (very well) by the author.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Medical trauma
Minor: Mental illness
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This is a must read, I can’t recommend it enough.
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A delightful look at the relationship between humans and their love for cats, and how helping one ultimately helps the other.
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Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC!
I won't lie: I requested this book entirely based off the cover. It's cute, it's about saving feral cats, surely it'll be a nice little book, I thought. I wasn't prepared for the emotional whiplash this would give me. (I mean this in the best way.) Courtney writes in such a poignant, poetic way, perfectly blending the stories of all these cats with the stories of people she's met and her own. Each chapter left me with something to think about regarding our larger culture, the systems we have to help each other and how they don't always work, the loneliness of being in your 20s and directionless. Wondering if you're a good person, do you deserve what you have. How wonderful it is to love something so innocent as a cat, and to be loved in turn. At some point in nearly every chapter I had to stop and put it down because it was stirring up so many intense emotions. Never has a memoir impacted me so deeply and I'm going to be thinking about it for a long time.
I won't lie: I requested this book entirely based off the cover. It's cute, it's about saving feral cats, surely it'll be a nice little book, I thought. I wasn't prepared for the emotional whiplash this would give me. (I mean this in the best way.) Courtney writes in such a poignant, poetic way, perfectly blending the stories of all these cats with the stories of people she's met and her own. Each chapter left me with something to think about regarding our larger culture, the systems we have to help each other and how they don't always work, the loneliness of being in your 20s and directionless. Wondering if you're a good person, do you deserve what you have. How wonderful it is to love something so innocent as a cat, and to be loved in turn. At some point in nearly every chapter I had to stop and put it down because it was stirring up so many intense emotions. Never has a memoir impacted me so deeply and I'm going to be thinking about it for a long time.