Wordy on Wednesday with Biblio-Kitty Amber #12 featuring The Cat, The Quilt and The Corpse

Welcome to 

The Self-Appointed Biblio-Kitty

Pawesome greetings fellow bibliocats

It's so fabulous to be back!

*waves paw with many happies*   

Mew won't believe the amount of books I've read and listened to offur the last few weeks, it's been meowvellous! MOL

I accidently stumbled across several new series which I've devoured with much vigour with the aid of much catnip tea and cookies to keep my strength up during this epic reading and audible marathon.

But before we get to that, I have to say that I'm still ladder-less, as mew may remember a few weeks ago I got my paws on a library ladder that only elevated me to the mid-level shelves, not up to the upper echelons of  the top shelves so this is still an issue which needs resolving, sooner rather than later before I have to send a rather stern letter to the Library Cats Association to insist on better wurking conditions as per union rules and regulations!

Anyhoo enough of my ramblings, let's get to today's book...

This week on Book Reviews with Amber, I'm sharing

The Cat, The Quilt and The Corpse

A Cats in Trouble Mystery

by

Leann Sweeney

Now I'm sure many of mew will have read this series already, but it's new to me and I loved it.

This is the furst novel in the series.

Quilter, Jillian Hart and her three kitties, Chablis, Syrah and Merlot are the victim of a catnapping crime. One of her precious furbabies is taken and that's were the mystery begins.  Enter Deputy Candace Carson, who has an eye fur details and is also a fellow cat lover.

As the two women investigate the catnapping a more sinister plot is revealed, as well as a dead body and a whole host of other disturbing scenarios.  It is furry cleverly plotted with some nice twists and turns in the story to keep mew guessing all the way through. 

A fabulous addition to anypurrdy's Cozy Mystery collection, which I can't recommend enough.

There are 8 novels in the series thus far and I've enjoyed every word of each one!

Paperback copy: 278 pages long

  Audio Edition:  10 hours 32 mins long

The Amber Biblio Rating System:

Ratings of : The Cat, The Quilt and The Corpse

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I really enjoyed this book, how about mew?

Well, it's time fur me to sign off again, as mew know the deal, so many books, so little time! 

And if any of mew have written a book that mew'd like me to feature; either use the contact form - look left on the side bar - or use the contact us page fur our email address, as I'd love to showcase our furiends pawesome literary talents.

Happy reading or listening

Purrs

Amber

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Wordy on Wednesday with Biblio-Kitty Amber #11 featuring When Cats Assassinate

Welcome to 

The Self-Appointed Biblio-Kitty

Pawesome greetings fellow bibliocats

*waves paw with many happies*

I hope mew've all had a supurr week thus far and before I furget, if mew haven't entered the pawesome 3rd Anniversary Pet Parade Give-Away feel free to do so

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In other news I'm enjoying my new ladder and have reached the heady heights of shelf four, which was a truly immense experience, rather than trying to use my previous method of a swinging a grappling hook and yanking down the tome I wanted! MOL

Yet I'll still be using my rather unorthodox book retrieval method fur shelves five and six until the P.A. finally gets something taller.

Anyhoo enough of my ramblings, let's get to today's book...

This week on Book Reviews with Amber, I'm sharing...

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When Cats Assassinate

by

David Watts & Andrew Davies

This book is such fun and totally hilarious, I'll give mew a couple of examples of chapter headings:

The Opportunist Killer: sometimes you just have to be in the right place at the right... to give a helping paw...

Comedy Killers: Never let it be said that cats don't possess a sense of humour... they're big fans of roadrunner cartoons.

Obviously, there are some slightly [severely] unhinged kitties in the book [even more so than us] hell-bent on taking out their K9 counterparts [which we would neffur do - we love our K9 buddies]. 

Yet as it's a wurk of total fiction, it is furry comical, even more so that the movie Cats and Dogs, which I also love! 

It's got some truly supurr photo's depicting all kinds of mayhem, it's one of those books that even if mew have the biggest thunder cloud above your head spoiling your mood, just open this and I can guarantee that in less than 10 seconds mew will be smiling!

 Hardback copy: 96 pages long

The Amber Biblio Rating System:

Ratings of : When Cats Assassinate

Photo's

Characters

Comedy

Ofurrall Enjoyment

If mew need a smile, a chuckle or a lot of hilarity get this.

Have mew read today's book?

What did mew think?

Well, it's time fur me to sign off again, as mew know the deal, so many books, so little time! 

And if any of mew have written a book that mew'd like me to feature; either use the contact form - look left on the sidebar - or use the contact us page fur our email address, as I'd love to showcase our furiends pawesome literary talents.

Happy reading

Purrs

Amber

 

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Wordy on Wednesday with Biblio-Kitty Amber #10 featuring Skinwalker by Faith Hunter

Welcome to 

The Self-Appointed Biblio-Kitty

Pawesome greetings fellow bibliocats

*waves paw with much glee and mirth*

Mew may remember a few weeks ago I mentioned that I really needed a library ladder, well mew'll neffur believe it, I actually got one.  Not an actual purroper library ladder but a ladder nonetheless, appurrently it's a stopgap until the P.A. can source a nice antiquey dark oak one from one of the local auction houses or flea market or get some beat-up thing from a second-hand shop etc...  she says she's not bothered if it needs a little restoration but ultimately it has to be the right thing.

In the meantime I got this...

Look it's not that I'm ungrateful or anything, but I still can't reach shelf five! MOL

And I did hear the P.A. mutter several unmentionables as she was constructing it, appurently self-tapping screws are not her favourite thing and more than once I heard the phrase 'supurr tight mother flocker!' [I'm not quite sure what a mother flocker is, or maybe I had my cloth-ears on and misheard thus mispronouncing said wurd! MOL]. Then appurrently the destruction booklet was completely useless.  It was at that moment I thought it was a moot point to say anything at all about purrchasing flat-pack furniture and promptly left her to it.

Sometime later... much later... but not too late...

The ladder was complete!

Aftur seeing it finished fur the furst time, I decided the best course of action was to appear purrleased even though really I wasn't as this clearly shows in the main picture.  I did howeffur rub my furry chops all offur it just in case anypurrdy else thought about claiming it, afturall I don't know how long it's going to take to source the real thing.

The good news is, that I'd already purrpared some nice little stickers on my label machine so it clearly states the ladder is for: CAT USE ONLY! 

Aftur all that excitement I think it's time we moved on to the main event... don't stop reading as it just gets more exciting.

This week on Book Reviews with Amber, I'm sharing

Skinwalker

by

Faith Hunter

This is the furst novel in the Jane Yellowrock Series and I can safely say, wow what a novel!

This is a paranormal, dark fantasy novel, so if mew like that genre mew'll just love this.  It's got shapeshifters, vampires, witches and were-creatures; the series is ten books long at the moment so there's plenty to sink your teeth into - pardon the pun.

Mew maybe wundering what this has to do with cats, well let me clear that up right now; the main character Jane Yellowrock is a Cherokee Skinwalker aka a shapeshifter and can shift into any type of creature provided she has a sample of DNA to use, but she isn't just any old shapeshifter.  Long, long ago when she was a child and on the brink of death she accidentally absorbed the soul of a mountain lion, so in essence she shares her body and mind with the consciousness and independent entity of said mountain lion, who in the novel is called Beast.  So that's where the cat element comes in today.

Obviously I'm not going to spoilerize anything fur mew, but how the two became one is one of the central plots within the series and as each new novel picks up at the end of the last one, the story is continued revealing more and more of their accidental joining.

In this purrticular novel Jane, who is a Rogue Vampire Hunter has been hired by Katherine Fontaneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans to hunt down a rogue vampire that's been terrorising both humans and vamps leaving a bloody body count in its wake and that's how the story begins.

Also Beast has her own voice and opinions which are sometimes at odds with her Skinwalker host; I really love Beast, she is one tough kitty and the two of them together are a merciless fighting force when it comes to taking down rogue vamps.  

 I could talk fur hours about this series, the great characters, the twists and turns of the story but I'm not going to bore the fur off mew with my opinion, howeffur I will say this Faith Hunter has written an amazing series with a plot so tight it made those self tapping screws seem like they were going into jelly, and as each new novel comes out I'm amazed at the complexity of the plotting and depth of the story-line.  She truly is one of the best dark fantasy/paranormal writers I've discovered in recent years.

I would recommend listening to the audio version as the narrator, Khristine Hvam brings the characters to life in a such way that mew just don't get by reading it yourself.  This is especially true for Beasts character, as she doesn't speak or think like us and the narration of her character is beyond exceptional. Did I already mention that I just love Beast!? MOL

If I had to sum-up in one wurd, it would be:  EPIC

Paperback copy: 336 pages long

  Audio Edition:  14 hours 34 mins long

The Amber Biblio Rating System:

Ratings of : Skinwalker

Plot Twists

Characters

Story Development

Ofurrall Enjoyment

This is my third 5 paws all-round novel, if I gave it any less I'd be lying! MOL

Have mew read today's book?

What did mew think?

Well, it's time fur me to sign off again, as mew know the deal, so many books, so little time! 

And if any of mew have written a book that mew'd like me to feature; either use the contact form - look left on the sidebar - or use the contact us page fur our email address, as I'd love to showcase our furiends pawesome literary talents.

Happy reading

Purrs

Amber

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Wordy on Wednesday with Biblio-Kitty Amber #9 The Cat Who....

Welcome to 

The Self-Appointed Biblio-Kitty

Pawesome greetings fellow bibliocats

*waves paw*

It's delightful to be here with mew again and I can safely say this week there have been no mishaps thus far, but that could be due to the fact that we got the P.A. a bubble-wrap suit which our pawesome pals at www.15andmeowing.com suggested.

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Admittedly she's not too keen on the styling or the colour of said suit, but we said,

"Mew're a total liability and it's fur your own well being!"

She had no argument at all, other than can we get her a hot pink one with a BionicBasil logo!!!  MOL

We're wurking on it...

Anyhoo it's that time again, so let's get on with the show.

This week on Book Reviews with Amber, I'm sharing

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

by

Lilian Jackson Braun

The Cat Who Series is one of my all-time favs effur and this novel is the furry furst one in the series written in 1966.  

It tells the tale of crime reporter Jim Qwilleran who is attempting to get his life back in order by accepting a job with his old pal at a new Newspaper, The Flux. But instead of reporting crime, his new gig is on the art-scene and his days are spent purrusing galleries and exhibitions. Howeffur it's not long until there's a murder and he's smack in the middle of it.

Enter Koko the incredibly intelligent Siamese, who Qwill inadvertently adopts aftur his owners untimely demise. A rather fussy eater, yet amazingly astute kitty who appears to know things even before they happen.

If mew love a murder mystery, mew'll love this series. A purrfect cozy mystery.

This is my purrsonal Cat Who Collection

We were effur so sorry when the author died a few years ago as there'd be no more books, yet the good news is; there are 29 books in total so that's plenty to keep mew going fur a while, that's if mew haven't already stumbled upon this superb series.

Paperback copy: 196 pages long

  Audio Edition: No Audio Book Available

The Amber Biblio Rating System:

Ratings of The Cat Who....

Plot Twists

Characters

Story Development

Ofurrall Enjoyment

This is my second 5 paws all-round novel, the furst being Reservoir Cats

Have mew read today's book?

What did mew think?

Well, it's time fur me to sign off again, as mew know the deal, so many books, so little time! 

And if any of mew have written a book that mew'd like me to feature; either use the contact form - look left on the sidebar - or use the contact us page fur our email address, as I'd love to showcase our furiends pawesome literary talents.

Happy reading

Purrs

Amber

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