Barbara M. reviewed on 3/12/2024 + 147 more book reviews

It took me about six months to read this book--partly because I was trying to catch up on other reading (magazines and newspaper articles I had saved) while reading this book. However, this book was also slow to get into. Homer was a sweet cat who learned to cope with blindness. However, that alone isn't enough for a compelling book. As some Amazon reviewers noted, Homer's story would have been more appropriate as a magazine article, not a full book. The most interesting parts were (1) when a burglar broke into the author's apartment when she lived in FL and (2) she lived near Ground Zero on 9/11.

Further, I didn't like how the author came across (also as some Amazon reviewers noted). In the latter half of the book she spent a lot of time talking about this fellow Laurence who first was a friend, then her boyfriend and finally her husband. Interestingly, in the Acknowledgments at the book's end, the author didn't mention her husband--she thanked many people, including her parents and sister, in-laws, friends, and, of course, her three cats but Laurence, whom the author described as the love of her life, was not mentioned.

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