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I became a big fan of Brooke Skie when I discovered her Leafwood Falls series last year. These romance novel prominently feature Hemingway, an opinionated bookstore cat cat who always has his paws in the story. I was excited to read The Lights by the Sea, the first book in her Northlight Cove series. The cat on the cover clued me in that this would qualify as a cat book, at least by my definition.Continue Reading
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I’ve been a fan of Rita Mae Brown’s Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series, co-authored with her cat Sneaky Pie Brown, from the very start. Clawed and Dangerous is the 34th book in the series. The original Sneaky Pie was rescued by Ms. Brown at her local SPCA.Continue Reading
My 2025 Cat Book of the Year was the 6-book Leafwood Fall series by Brooke Skie. I was delighted when the novella The Snowbound Bookshop, the seventh installment in what appears to be an open ended series, came out last week.Continue Reading
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What if there was a restaurant where you could have a meal that allows you to have one last conversation with a lost loved one? This is the premise of The Calico Cat at the Chibineko Kitchen.Continue Reading
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The Cat’s Eye Charm is the most recent installment in Clea Simon’s Witch Cats of Cambridge series, and like the other books in the series, the combination of mystery with a touch of the paranormal is irresistible.Continue Reading
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Since I broke my own rule with this year’s Cat Product of the Year announcement by picking two products instead of just one, I thought what the heck, let’s break the rule for my choice for the 2025 Cat Book of the Year, too! I fell in love with the Leafwood Falls series by Brooke Skie this fall, and have since read all six books in the series.Continue Reading
If you’re looking for a holiday read that leaves you feeling uplifted and hopeful by the final page, Just Until Christmas, the sixth installment in Brooke Skie’s Leafwood Falls series, is purrfect for you.Continue Reading
I’ve read a lot of cat memoirs over the years. I even wrote my own. But I’ve not come across anything resembling Paws for a Moment. Zohar Kohavi shares the profound relationship he shared with his cat Cato for 21 years through a series of vignettes, essays and poems. This is a small book, but it packs quite an emotional punch.Continue Reading
Best Wishes from the Full Moon Coffee Shop is the follow on to The Full Moon Coffee Shop. It’s hard to categorize this series – perhaps magical realism might be the best genre label for these charming books.Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed The Next Chapter Bookshop, the first book in Brooke Skie’s Leafwood Falls series. I’ve since read all the other books in the series, finishing with this most recent one, The Bookshop of Secrets. A charming small town in Vermont, a bookstore with an opinionated resident cat, and a delightful assortment of human characters makes this series the purrfect escape read.Continue Reading
The second entry in my new series, Rereading Old Favorites, is Gwen Cooper’s Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat. I would venture to guess that many of you read this book when it was first published in 2009. Featuring Homer, a tiny blind kitten whose courage, joy and boundless heart change his human’s life forever is a true classic in the cat literature genre.Continue Reading