Wordy on Wednesday with Biblio-Kitty Amber #67 featuring The Cat Who Wasn't There and The Winner of Smoochie's Birthday Pawty Give-Away

Welcome To

With me, Amber ~ The Self-Appointed Biblio-Kitty

Supurr salutations pawesome furriends

*waves paw*

How are all my beautiful furriends today?  Are mew having a fabulous week?  Mine has been lovely as the weather finally pushed the mercury offur the 20C mark, actually on Monday we got up to 26C with a light breeze and it was delightful.

Mew may have heard that I don't like going outside much, this is a completely untrue accusation made by my fursibs, I love the great outdoors...

And I just happened to be outside in time fur this...

Sampling the furst catmint and catnip crop! MOL

And let me tell mew it was pawesome, and who knew our plants would recover so well aftur the Heathen Kittens from next door nearly cleaned us out a couple of weeks ago, it just goes to show mew that a bit of warmth, gentle watering and some TLC wurks wunders.

Now I think mew've waited long enough, so let's do the draw fur Smoochie's Birthday Pawty Give-Away!

Here are all the fab entries:

And the WINNER is:


[turn the volume on if mew can]

STOP!!!

 DON'T SCROLL ANY FURTHER UNTIL MEW'VE WATCHED THE VIDEO! MOL

THE SWISS CATS!!

WOO HOO many congratulations guys, purrlease email us your snail mail address at your earliest convenience:

deardrbasil @ gmail . com

and we'll get your epically epic goodie bag to mew in a jiffy!

Don't wurry if mew missed out this time, it's Basil's Birthday on 1st of June, he's 16 this time and then it's Fudge's birthday on 21st of June, so there's still more give-aways to come offur the summer, with Parsley on 31st August and Pandora 18th September followed by yours truly on October 24th, so that's 5 more chances mew have in the next few months to get your paws on one of our epically epic goodie bags!

But now aftur all that excitement I think it's time to share this weeks book.

This week I'm sharing

THE CAT WHO WASN'T THERE

Bk 14  The Cat Who... Mystery Series

by

Lillian Jackson Braun

Here's a little snippet of the book blurb:

Persuaded by his beloved companion to join her in a group tour of Scotland, Jim Qwilleran expects to revel in his Scottish heritage while keeping Polly Duncan safe from the Pickax Prowler. Instead, his trip is cut short when a thief swipes a suitcase, the bus driver disappears, and a fellow tourist is found dead - all in the same day.

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Mew may, or may not remember that way back in August 2016 I reviewed the furry furst Cat Who... novel, and I thought it was high-time I shared another.

I think Lillian Jackson Braun was the forerunner of the kitty cozy mystery vibe as her furst novel was published in 1966, and thus far I don't think I've read any cozy cat mysteries published earlier than that, though I may be wrong MOL.

So anyhoo what did I think to #14 in this series?  Well it's offur 10 years since I furst read the entire series back to back and occasionally I'll pull a random one off the shelf to add a bit of variety to my reading repertoire, and I must say I enjoyed today's book as much as I did the furst time I read it.

Even though there's no tech or cell-phones, computers or the like, and reading that the characters have to find a pay phone or borrow a telephone makes me smile; ah the good old days before life became a frenetic, million-miles-an-hour stress vibe with all this tech that was supposed to make life easier. 

So to read a story set before all those tech-devices came into play is so refreshing and fur the older purrsons among us, quite nostalgic as life was so much simpler waaaaaay back then.  

Would I recommend this book and the entire series?  Yes I would furry much so, I think Lillian Jackson Braun wrote a timeless series, that can be enjoyed offur and offur again; she was a true pioneer of the cozy cat mystery vibe.

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Audio version:  7 hours 18 mins

Softcover: 292 pages 

The Amber Biblio Rating System Fur Offurall Enjoyment:

Ratings of:

THE CAT WHO WASN'T THERE

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I do hope mew enjoy this book if mew decide to give it a try... 

...and if mew've read it already, what did mew think?

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Sadly it's time fur me to say BFN or bye-fur-now as mew know the drill, so many books, so little time and don't furget that I'll be back next week with another specially paw-picked book just fur mew.

Happy reading or listening

Bestest biblio purrs and kitty kisses

Amber xox

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