Cat's Eyewitness - Rita Marie Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown

In order to fulfill the requirements of a course that I am taking, Content Area Literacy, I am embarking on a journey of once again reading for "fun".  It's a wonderful break from usual Master's work!  This blog has been created in order to document my readings each week.


Week 1 - Cat's Eyewitness by Rita Marie Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown
Wednesday, October 9th   12:15-1:00pm, 2:30-3:30pm

For my first book selection, I chose a pet-friendly murder mystery.  Rita Marie Brown writes all of her mysteries alongside her best kitty friend, Sneaky Pie.  I picked up the book at at local "fill a bag" book sale with hopes that I'd somehow gain the ambition to read it.

The setting of this particular book, part of the Mrs. Murphy series, is in and around a monastery. Not only are the humans involved in the events that took place surrounding a murder, but several kitties and a Corgi friend are helping to solve the mystery.  I appreciate that the author has placed animal conversation in differing text than human conversation.

Admittedly, I'm not very far into the book.  The murder has just taken place.  However, I don't anticipate continuing this one.  I'm disappointed in the readability of it, particularly the amount of "fluff" and the abundance of characters whom I don't anticipate being major parts of the story.  After my initial reading, I read some Amazon reviews of this particular book which stated that its quality was atypical of the author.

While at the bag book sale, I also picked up a collection of 3 more Mrs. Murphy's books.  Perhaps I'll give another one a shot!  I really want to like this series :).

Until next time...

-Patty



Cat's Eyewitness on Amazon.com