Posted by Candice on Saturday, Apr 5, 2014
There's really not a whole lot to say about this little book, it speaks for itself. It's a tiny morsel of complete happiness, wrapped up in a flurry of pictures of ridiculously cute kittens doing kittenish things. Kittens sleeping, kittens learning to walk, kittens eating, kittens playing. Several different breeds are showcased, including Russian Blues, Toygers, Persians and Munchkins (Munchkins?? I know, I didn't even know there was such thing as a Munchkin cat, but now I need three or four).
Personally, I'm not one of those people who sees cute little kids and feels the pangs of motherhood, but this book made my ovaries ache. If you're a total cat mama or papa, you'll want this book. If you've got kids that love cats, they'll enjoy this book. If you're thinking about taking that plunge into cat-ownership and want to be pushed right off that cliff into the deep end, you should take a look at this book.
You're not going to learn a whole lot from this book, but you'll have a few moments of pure bliss and appreciation of the amazingly cute things that can exist in this world, and that is more than worth the ten minutes it would take you to leaf through its pages.
This book is the August BYOBook read, and it's very good. There are many themes that resonate throughout, but several kept me thinking long after I'd finished the book: we are all haunted in one way or another (mistakes, guilt, people); the blurring of boundaries between different aspects of life that we think are solidly separated; and how so much of our existence is based on structuring that isn't really there, or is there but we don't see it. -Candice