Saturday, March 26, 2022

Great narrative, maybe a little shallow but entertaining


Trooper
The Bobcat Who Came in from the Wild
by Forrest Bryant Johnson

Uncanny relationship between a cat and his man. It's so unbelievable at times--at most times--that it couldn't possible be true. But you know it is.

Since the span of the book is many years--all the years of a life--the author had hundreds of funny, touching, scary and curious little episodes to choose from. It almost makes me wish I'd kept a "Winston diary" to record the life of my black cat Winston. From his curious entry into the family (the shelter wouldn't let us adopt a black cat right before Halloween, so we had to wait two weeks), to his clothes dryer episode and all his years of hunting outside, it would have made a good story. But not near as good as this one.

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