Feline Fiction on Fridays #114 at Amber's Library featuring **My Favourite Catmas Books Fur 2019**

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

HO! HO! HO!

OMC I was caught red-pawed trying out the Catmas pressies fur the other B Team memfurs the other day...  just look at that action shot below - that Catnip Candle kicker toy really got a battering! MOL

But really Parsley asked if I would test the toys he'd made; so I was duly inaugurated as the Chief Quality Control Purrson fur all the catnip gifts because he couldn't trust the other heathen B Team memfurs fur this rather delicate opurration!

I got to test 6 toys in all, and mew can see a rather fun Catnip Catmas Tree and the legs of our Catnip Gingerbread Purrson at the front of the picture while I was testing the Catnip Candle in the background.

Oh, and mew've got to stop by the blog tomorrow if mew get time, as apparently I've heard mew're going to get to see the Catmas Pudding, so whateffur mew do, don't miss that!

But now I think it's time to share this week's top book selection.

This week I'm sharing  

**My Favourite Catmas Books Fur 2019** 

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I have chosen five books in total, a couple of which I have reviewed previously.

12 Cats of Christmas ~ I reviewed this one here

3 Wise Cats A Christmas Story ~ my review is here

Six Cats a Slayin' (Cat in the Stacks Mystery) ~ I've reviewed some earlier books in the series here

The Cat of Christmas Past (Whales and Tails Cozy Mystery Book 6) ~ This series is on my to read list fur 2020

Christmas Carols For Cats ~ I've just actually purrchased this one fur my library

I do hope mew enjoy this selection, and if mew've read any of them 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.

Merry Catmas and I'll see mew next week until then...

Keep calm and read on

Purrs

Amber xox

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Wordy on Wednesday with Humphrey ~ Review of Murder Past Due

with

Humphrey

Wednesday greetings supurr furiends

Today, as mew may have already surmised Humphrey is here sharing this week's top book pick.

We know many of mew are literary kitties and love a good yarn, purrdon the pun, and yes string, yarn, twine, cord and the like are all most marvellous time wasters but if mew have free time to spare Humphrey thinks mew may enjoy this novel.

Now as the P.A. has to go to work daily to meet our demanding demands, then be at our beck and call fur the remaining hours in the day, plus all the other jobs that need doing, she doesn't have time to sit and read, so she listens [as do we] to audiobooks while she toils - she calls it multi-tasking - she's listened to audiobooks since being a small fry and finds it most enjoyable.

Offur the years she's gone from spoken wurd cassettes to CD's and finally in 2009 to the Audible App, which she says is a truly terrific invention. She also has a Kindle with a gazillion books on, waiting to be read but unless we develop some cloning tech in the secret bunker they aren't going to be read anytime soon! MOL

So anyhoo, let's get back to Humphrey top book pick.

BBHQ Purrsonal Copy

Murder Past Due is the furst novel in the Cat in the Stacks series by Miranda James.

It features a supurr smart Maine coon kitty called Diesel who rather casually assists his hooman, Charlie Harris in the solving of murders.

While we won't ruin anything by 'spoilerizing' this novel fur mew, we can say it was fun to listen too, with great narration and a good set of plot twists to keep mew listening and entertained.  It's classed as a Cozy Mystery so it's basically a PG rating, thus if mew're looking fur a light read this is absolutely purrfect. 

The audio version is 8 hours 46 mins long, just in case mew're were wundering how many treat breaks and naps mew can fit in between chapters! MOL

And if mew've already read it or listened to it, what did mew think?

Just so mew don't get lost with Humphrey's ratings, he made a rather nifty little diagram which he calls: 

Rating Scale

Humphrey's Rating of Murder Past Due:

Plot Twists

Characters

Story Development

Offurall Enjoyment

The paw has spoken! MOL

What more do mew need than that, so we'll bid mew good morrow and wish mew happy reading or listening, or in fact napping with treats on the side with a splash of nip tea!

Purrs

Humphrey 

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