Feline Fiction on Fridays #109 at Amber's Library featuring **You Need More Sleep - Advice From Cats** by Francesco Marciuliano

Welcome To

With Amber ~ The Best Library Kitty in the entire Mewton~Clawson Parish

Supurr salutations pawesome furriends

*waves paw*

Hello gorgeous library guests and welcome to my private library

Wow I can't believe a week has gone by so quickly, it seems like only yesterday I was here, time is doing some funny things right now.  

I was going to wait until next week to mention how our health-check went, but the good news is Melvyn and I are fine after our trip to the VETS on Wednesday morning.  Melvyn weighs 5.3kg, however he's still got a whole kilo to catch up with Sauce, though he did say he's going to going to go all out to be level with him in the next year... Yes, Melvyn is now bulking and going all in to meet that goal! MOL 

I've lost a little bit of weight and I do have arthritis and onset CKD, but given I'm 17 this is purrfectly normal for an elderly catizen like myself.  I do take CBD oil to help with the arthritis and some days I do walk like Robo-Cat but so it goes - though mew should see how the P.A. walks furst thing in the morning since her accident, it's like Darwin's Evolution during the furst couple of hours and she makes me look pawsitively fluid! MOL  [But for Cods Sake don't tell her I told mew that, or she'll be revoking my credits at Audible and I really don't want a rerun of last time!]

Anyhoo in other news, remember our basket on the landing; well it got a little make-over this week and as mew can see Melvyn got to try it furst!  It got a new lease of life with a white paint finish, a new supurr comfy cushion was made for the bottom, then a pom pom trimmed throw for the top with two small catnip pillows in matching fabric for extra comfort.

He says; it meets with his approval, and the P.A should have revamped it ages ago! MOL

Melvyn also has a bandanna and snuggle mat in the same fabric, though with different trim, click here to see.

#spoiledcats #veryspoiledcats #truestory

And now I think it's time to share this weeks book.

You Need More Sleep 

 Advice From Cats

 by 

Francesco Marciuliano

Here's A Small Snippet of the Book Blurb:    

Our feline friends have spent eons observing, napping, pondering, napping and taking notes about the human condition. In between naps, they’ve realised that we humans could use some catlike guidance when it comes to handling the ups and downs of life.

  >^.^<

 Furstly I bought this way back in February and actually furgot all about it until I was going through one of the 'unread' book piles in my library - OOPS!  So I thought I'd better get a wriggle on and review it this week! MOL

 I did another review by the same author a while ago, so check that out too.  

Anyhoo what did I think to this little book of wisdom for our pet hoomans? Though not a large book I thought it was fab and very funny in places. It has some lovely photo's of lots of different cats, and covers four different areas of life advice including; relationships, social minglings, climbing the corporate ladder and all about ones-self.  So it purretty much covers all aspects that mew could ever really need to relay to your hooman, which is really good as don't mew think that some hoomans over-complicate things? 

In fact, I would say that this would make the purrfect pressie for your hooman; my advice, buy it for Catmas, then a; mew've already took care of your shopping and b; mew've bought something thoughtful - the purrfect gift, so many levels of pawesome!

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• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books

The Amber Biblio Rating System Fur Offurall Enjoyment:

Ratings of:

You Need More Sleep - Advice From Cats

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I do hope mew enjoy this series 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 I'll be back next week with another specially paw-picked book just fur mew. And don't furget that all my previous reviews can be found on my Book Review page

In the meantime

Keep calm and read on

purrs

Amber xox

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Wordy on Wednesday with Biblio-Kitty Amber #66 featuring I Could Pee On This and i got a new job, but then i had to quit!

Welcome To

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

Supurr salutations pawesome furriends

*waves paw*

My week started like this...

Great news beautiful furriends, I've got another part-time job; I'm now the lighthouse keeper at BB HQ!

Yes I know what mew're all thinking; but mew don't live by the sea.  While this is technically true, we do have a small body of water and who knows when an inter-dimensional time-rift will open and some random ship will appear in the pond from the Purrmuda Triangle! MOL

But seriously, the frogs need a safe harbour when the weather is bad and I'll be there to make sure all is well in their wurld. And the frogs are paying me to keep them safe, from what who knows, but I need cash4books, so there was no way I was turning that oppurrtunity down especially since the Pole Dancing club is temporarily closed fur a refurb due to the weirdo badgers and cheapskate weasels getting into a bit of scuffle on Caturday night, and Amazon Affiliates is pants - but I already knew that.  

So what turned out to be a crappy start to the week, actually became fabulous because now I only have to amble out of the patio doors down to the pond, it's a 30-second commute and I have requested a new bed fur while I'm on watch which conforms to all health and safety protocols. And I get a decent hourly rate which will enable me to purrchase at least one book purr shift, can't get better than that can mew?

And then this happened...

 Basil asked me what I was doing, so I explained and then he said, I was being paid protection money as the frogs are assisting the kittens in raiding our catnip and catmint crop, appurrently the frogs are their lookout team to let them know the coast is clear...

Obviously I had to quit immediately due to a huge conflict of interests and our rapidly disappearing green crop, and then I gave the frogs a piece of my mind.

"Look here Mister Frog!" I said sternly. "Mew didn't tell me mew were the lookout crew fur the kittens!"

"B... b... b...." Mister Frog began.

"Oh shut up!" I snapped. "If mew continue to assist them I'll be putting in a proposal to turn the pond, aka your home into a sandpit, so mew, your family and your spawn will be homeless, what do mew think to that?"

I actually think I was a bit harsh as the frog started to cry, his family started to cry, I started to feel really bad and then the spawn started to wail. [Trust me when I say, mew neffur want to hear spawn wailing!]

"Oh fur cods sake!" I spluttered. "Stop helping the kittens and your home is safe, ok?"

"OK," Mister Frog croaked.

And so ended my career as the newest light-house keeper and my unemployment began again, a crappy mid-week blip, but I remain fureffur optimistic and just know that something will turn up soon... and so it goes... in the meantime let's check out this weeks top book pick.

This week I'm sharing

I Could Pee on This

And Other Poems by Cats

by

 Francesco Marciuliano

Here's a little snippet of the book blurb:

Cat lovers can rejoice in the quirkiness of their feline friends with these insightful and curious poems from the singular mind of house cats. In this fully illustrated book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, the author of the internationally syndicated comic strip Sally Forth helps cats unlock their creative potential and explain their odd behavior to ignorant humans, With titles like 'Who Is That on Your Lap?

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As some of mew know Smooch had a little purroblem a couple of years ago with piddling in places he shouldn't and when the P.A. saw this book a few months ago she just had to buy it!  [Smooch didn't find it funny and promptly pee'd on the outside back-door mat - another item now RIP'd to the bonfire]

So anyhoo, what did I think of this little book full of fun? In one wurd, fantastic!

 It is split into sections which covers:

Family
Work
Play
Existence

The furry first poem is obviously a part ODE to Smooch, as it tells of a cat that could pee on a sweater, then on a laptop - yep that actually happened here - Smooch did not find it funny at all, but I was MOLing my fur off!  Funnily enough, the P.A. didn't find it funny being reminded about her laptop [now in silicon heaven] either - oops.

Another favourite is called 'Tripped' that was hilarious. But my purrsonal all-time favourite is; 'Bigger Cat' as I can so relate to that, and now I'm rhyming too! MOL

As mew know I can't actually share any of the poems and there's so many I would love to - due to copyright issues - but I will say this, if mew want a fun little book that mew can visit time and time again, then this is just fur mew!

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• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; 01 edition (1 Oct. 2012)

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The Amber Biblio Rating System Fur Offurall Enjoyment:

Ratings of:

 I Could Pee On This

Offurall Enjoyment

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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