A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsBreaking Cat News / cartoons / cats / comic / Humor / news / reporter2 Comments
Picking up where they last left off in Breaking Cat News, are Elvis, Puck, and Lupin reporting on the breaking news that matters to cats. Cynical, no-nonsense Elvis and shy, sweet, sensitive Puck are the reporter kitties in the field, while the adventurous jokester Lupin serves as anchor cat. Together, ... more >
A Reviews / Recommended Reads#metoo / 1970s / books and reading / community / Humor / Literary fiction / Northern Ireland / rumors / Violence10 Comments
Dear Ms. Burns, Your novel, Milkman, recently won the Man Booker Prize. That and a rave review from Sunita convinced me to read it. Milkman has been called “experimental fiction” because it’s written in stream-of-consciousness narration conveyed through long sentences and paragraphs, because the narrative goes on long tangents, and ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsactivist poets / cats / Humor / poetry / social justice1 Comments
Poems from the Cat Uprising From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Could Pee on This, Francesco Marciuliano, comes a lesson from cats in resistance. Cats are done with humans’ crap. For too long they have put up with baby talk, the humiliation of holiday costumes, and ... more >
Book ReviewsEssays / Fiction / Humor / Medieval Romance / non-fiction / psychological thriller / Reading lists / Siege of Leningrad / Wales / WWII10 Comments
As I noted in Part 1, I split this into two posts because I wrote longer-than-usual mini-reviews. City of Thieves by David Benioff I picked this up from an Amazon deal somewhere, intrigued by the subject matter (the Siege of Leningrad has fascinated me since I read Paullina Simons’ ... more >
B Reviews Category / Book ReviewsArthurian myth / Fantasy / Humor / Romance2 Comments
Dear Cassandra Gannon, Ilona Andrews recommended this book on her blog and while not every recommendation of hers worked for me, the quotes she chose sounded hilarious and the whole story sounded worth trying especially on Kindle Unlimited. I certainly do not regret reading it and even though the ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscountry-living / England / Humor / World War II2 Comments
Originally published under Little Fiddle- On-The-Green Still Smiling, E. M Delafield’s The Spirit of the Age captures in a collection of vignettes the impact of WW2 on the Home Front. The people of Little Fiddle-on-the-Green lived a very peaceful life. They went to cricket matches. They discussed the works of ... more >