Empty Shelf Challenge

I’ve started several book over the last few months that I just couldn’t get “into.” Trust me – it’s not the books – it’s the reader! 

So I’ve been rereading. That seems to be working right now. I started the year with Agatha Christie and then moved to “The Cat Who….” series and have read 10 of those. I’m comfortable with Qwill and his 2 Siamese cats so that’s what I’m reading right now. I’ve done many reviews on these books so am not going to rehash them here.

However, I do have a couple of quotes from “The Cat Who Sniffed Glue.”

Qwill was talking with a bibliophile and their conversation went like this:

Qwill: How many of these do we have to dust? (talking of a  HUGE personal library)

Eddington: I do a few hundred each time. I don’t hurry. I enjoy handling them. Books like to be handled.

Qwill: You’re a true bibliophile, Edd.

Later in the day:

Qwill: I’m amazed at your knowledge of books, Edd. I wish I could remember everything I’ve read and come up with a trenchant quote for every occasion.

Eddington: (looking guilty) I haven’t done much reading, I took Winston Churchill’s advice. He said, ‘It’s a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.’

Love both of these.

And remember your books like to be handled.

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

by Lilian Jackson Braun

    

 “The world of modern art is a  mystery to many. But for Jim      Qwilleran, it turns into a mystery of  another sort when his assignment to  the art beat for The Daily Fluxion  leads down the path to murder. A  stabbing in an art gallery, vandalized  paintings, a fatal fall from a  scaffolding--this is not at all what  Qwilleran expects when he turns his  reportorial talents to art. But  Qwilleran and his newly found  partner, Koko the brilliant Siamese,  are back in their element--sniffing  out clues and confounding criminals  intent on mayhem and murder.”

Synopsis from Amazon

I’ve been a fan of Lilian Jackson Braun since my friend Kris introduced her to me many years ago. I had seen her books around for years but to be honest I thought they sounded “silly.” Then Kris recommended them so I tried one and was hooked.

I’ve done another review on Lillian Jackson Braun H.E.R.E.

If the first three seem v.e.r.y. different from the rest the reason is because Braun wrote the first three books between 1966 and 1968 then she disappeared from the publishing scene for 18 years. In 1986 a publisher reintroduced her books to a new generation of readers and within the next two years she wrote four more books. Her 29th book  was published in 2007.  She died at age 97 in 2011.

If you like cozies this is a great series. I’ve read them several times and will probably read them several more. – but I’m a rereader! – and I like cats! Especially the ones in Braun’s series.