Jenna ❤ ❀ ❤'s Reviews > The Cat Who Saved Books

It looked like your average ginger tabby—a rather large, plump cat."

And with that sentence in The Cat Who Saved Books, my beautiful ginger cat Chloe hissed at the Kindle and leapt from my lap, where she had been reading along with me.

"I am crushed that you would read such rubbish, such lies!" she cried. She turned from me and began licking her tail, acting as though I had ceased to exist.

After a few minutes in which I spent not reading but trying to placate my now only slightly overweight cat (who has been on a strict diet for the last two years after reaching an unhealthy weight), she finally stopped licking and sniffed, "Well, I suppose there is some truth to that statement".

Now, you might be thinking, That's silly, cats don't read or speak English! Ok yes, I lied about Chloe reading. She doesn't read.. but she does speak.

Ok, maybe not in English, but she speaks in Felinese so it's not a complete lie. And maybe you think it's impossible for a human to understand their language, but if you live with a cat long enough, you start to discern between the meows and moans with all their various pitches and intonations.

There's the adorable purring meow where Kitty looks sweetly at you with half closed eyes and whiskers forward, where she's telling you she loves you and is so happy you live with her and feed her and generally be her slave.

Then there's the insistent higher pitched meow that is repeated every few seconds that says, I demand you bring me food or clean the poo in my litter box. Now.

And when that gets ignored, there's the terrible moaning, groaning caterwaul that sounds like a twelve hundred pound cow giving birth. This last is often in the middle of the night and it is your no longer adorable Kitty telling you she is dying of hunger and she can't believe you would treat her so abominably and lie in bed trying to sleep when she is suffering so horribly. Or maybe just needs some attention.

Cats say many more things than this, but these are the three you will most often hear.

Now, if you've been reading this far, it probably means you enjoy reading about cats and reading in general. If that is indeed the case, then you might also enjoy reading The Cat Who Saved Books.

It's a quick read about a talking ginger tabby who enlists the help of a teen boy whose grandfather has just died. The two set off to save books from monstrous people who are destroying them for various reasons.

The Cat Who Saved Books is whimsical, magical, and charming. It pays homage to books and those who love reading them. It's uplifting and sweet, a sort of modern fairy tale. Not my usual type of book but because there's a talking ginger cat, I couldn't resist. Recommend to book lovers and cat lovers and the lovers of both.

And before I go, I should admit I also lied about Chloe sitting on my lap. She never has, probably never will, not to read nor to cuddle. It's only in my imagination that she's a lap cat.

But I love her nonetheless.