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tanya_the_spack 's review for:
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
by Vicki Myron
I enjoyed this. I expected a book about a library cat to be poorly written, regardless of its popularity, but it's actually well written. The parts about Dewey himself are exactly the fluffy cat memoir you would expect. What I particularly enjoyed, however, was how well the author wrote about small-town Iowa. She created a very visual experience, bringing the town to life. The book kind of bogged down at the end, as the author tied the deaths in her family to Dewey's death, making the book more a memoir of her than of Dewey. Sure, Dewey and the author are - and must be - intertwined, but the author diverged from what, to that point, had been a fairly furry-focused memoir. That could have been tightened up. Still, that is a minor quibble on an otherwise recommended read for those who like cats and libraries.