Cat Got Your Killer by Sofie Ryan

March 23, 2025

Sofie Ryan’s Cat Got Your Killer is the twelfth book in her Second Chance Cat Mystery series. Perhaps if I’d read more than just a couple in this series, I might be able to remember who all the characters are. There are a number of people who are friends...

The Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu

February 19, 2025

What a sad, interesting book. The Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu is translated into English by Jesse Kirkwood, who also translated The Full Moon Coffee Shop, among other books. While the blanket cats themselves are the only link between seven stories, each of the...

The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard

November 20, 2024

Last Thursday, I mentioned I had slowed down while reading Alex Howard’s The Ghost Cat. Even when I finished, my opinion didn’t change. While I enjoyed the early years of Grimalkin, the cat from Edinburgh, I didn’t enjoy the second half of...

The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki

September 21, 2024

I think I”m about a year or two behind others who are reading some of these small Japanese books with entwined stories, but it was due to my own prejudice. I had read translated books in the past, and had not been impressed. I never knew if it was the writer or...

Furever After by Sofie Kelly

September 07, 2024

Sometimes, a book just feels as if it finishes a series. I really can’t say that the sixteenth Magical Cats mystery, Sofie Kelly’s Furever After, is the last book. There’s no indication it is, except the wedding seems to sum so much up, and the...