Elisabeth Parker Henry

15 Nov 2024

My current feline line-up. From left to right: Oliver Ozymandias Jones, b. 7/2023 Augustus Droolius Caesar, found 4/2016 Maximilian Tiberius Jones, b. 4/2020 Cleopatra Purrsephone Jones, b. 5/2023 (No, my last name is not, and has never been, Jones. It's a long story.)

17 May 2025

An OWNER'S manual? Seriously!? Well, actually, The Cat Owner's Manual is a technical manual on how to keep your model healthy and clean, how to help her interface with other animals, and why she throws hairballs with such regularity. #catsOfBluesky #book #review #ECCBookReview #cat #void

17 May 2025

Dr David Brunner and his fellow human, Sam Stall, did a bang-up job of making us seem like furry VCRs, while simultaneously writing a pretty decent book. This one's a keeper. There's a book in this series for dogs and one for human babies, too, but who'd want those? Ew.

I'm pretty sure that if cats could talk, we wouldn't. Or else we'd lie to you. Cos that's how we roll. But in If Cats Could Talk, it's assumed that we are witty, talkative, and brilliant. Which we are, of course. #catsOfBluesky #Caturday #book #review #ECCBookReview #cat

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But as much as I enjoyed it, it's just too short. Needs more substance. More pictures. More clever witticisms. More dog jokes. If you can find this book at a car boot or yard sale for under two dollars, then go for it... And then pass it along to another cat.

Otherwise, read it in a bookshop. It's not worth taking up space on your shelves. Unless you wish you could read the same 35 Instagram posts over and over. P.S. How many dogs does it take to screw in a lightbulb? All of 'em. One to turn it, and the rest to run around in circles, barking at it.

This tiny gift book-sized volume contains pictures of cats in various positions and situations, along with some snappy dialogue to go with the photos. It's like having a tiny piece of Instagram in your hands.

3 May 2025

Why DO cats do that? You know... That. Yes, THAT. Probably because we're so awesome. Or maybe because we love you. Or maybe because we are protecting our territory. Or maybe because you're too stupid to know how to hunt. #catsOfBluesky #cat #void #book #review #ECCBookReview

3 May 2025

Or maybe because we have a million more muscles than you. Or maybe because you're not paying enough attention to us. Or maybe because we confuse you with our mamas. Or maybe because we like the way you sound when you're on the phone.

3 May 2025

Or maybe because we want JUST A TASTE of that delicious bird outside. There could be fifty reasons why we do THAT, just like there are fifty questions in this book. It's a cute book. Don't take it too much to heart, though. We're probably just bored.

26 Apr 2025

So, I totally should've posted this last weekend, but we were dealing with a kitty issue (as one does). So you get your Easter #book #review a week late. =P ----- The Easter Bunny certainly gets around... And Cat is going to help. #catsOfBluesky #Caturday #cat #ECCBookReview

26 Apr 2025

Check out his kickass motorcycle and sidecar; I'd totally deliver eggs if I had THAT kind of transportation. Since he wants to be just as popular as the Bunny, Cat has decided to become the Easter Cat. Not such a good idea, Cat. But maybe you can be helpful in some other way...?

26 Apr 2025

As always, Cat is adorable and cute and funny, all at once. They say this is a book for kittens, but I'm nineteen, and I loved it - and you will, too. Hooray for the Easter Cat!

20 Apr 2025

"Easter Bunny"? No, I haven't seen anything like that. These chocolate eggs? They were here when I arrived. - Beast #catsOfBluesky #cat #void #cute #Easter #ByeByeBunny

6 Apr 2025

I haven't reviewed much fiction during the last year or so, and to be honest, I'm not 100% sure that this book IS fiction. #catsOfBluesky #Caturday #book #review #ECCBookReview #cat

6 Apr 2025

Belshazzar is the name of a handsome and well-travelled tuxedo cat who has collaborated with a human to bring you this autobiography. A slim but full volume, this book can easily be stashed away between your litter box and the wall, for convenient toilet reading.

6 Apr 2025

What adventures Belshazzar has had. What tragedy, what ecstasy, what a happy and satisfying end! From living in an English cottage with a typical nuclear family, to the tragedies that took him away from that family, to his 'Lean Years', and then back to a life of comfort, Belshazzar stays strong.

"You know your cat is a superior being, with deep wisdom about life...." So sayeth "Zen Kitty: A Cat's Guide To Enlightenment". Yeah, whatever. #catsOfBluesky #cat #cute #book #review #ECCBookReview #Caturday

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The illustrations are still great, but at not much more than 200 words (WORDS, mind you, not pages - and that includes the dedication), it's really not worth owning. No matter how wise we sound in Haiku.

The illustrations *are* damned pretty, though. Maybe I'll have the short human tear some of them out and frame them for me to hang over my litterbox.

If this book were a meal, it would be one of those fancy, Japanese dishes that has a single piece of fish, a tiny ball of rice, and three julienned cucumber sticks attractively arranged on a plate the size of your human's head. It looks beautiful, tastes delicious, but there's not a whole lot of it.

If this book were four times the size, I'd suggest picking it up on sale, because the illustrations are just that damned good. But it's not, so I can't.

23 Mar 2025

23 Mar 2025

Dr David Brunner and his fellow human, Sam Stall, did a bang-up job of making us seem like furry VCRs, while simultaneously writing a pretty decent book. This one's a keeper. There are books in this series for dogs and human babies, too, but who'd want those?

15 Mar 2025

...uh-oh. I've been spotted! I had hoped to bring all you kitties a secret review of this fascinating book by The Oatmeal (aka Matthew Inman), but I foolishly read it while stealing the short human's warm spot on the bed. Bah! #catsOfBluesky #Caturday #cat #book #review #ECCBookReview #TheOatmeal

15 Mar 2025

Regardless, the book -- How To Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting To Kill You -- is a brilliant work by a brilliant individual who MIGHT be a cat masquerading as a human. Of course, he IS revealing many of our secrets, so we may have to track him down and vomit hairballs onto his shoes.

9 Mar 2025

Everything Here Is Mine. Yes, that pretty much sums up my life. And this book, by Nicole Hollander. BEST BOOK EVER. Especially the plans for setting up a feline solarium and bathroom. #catsOfBluesky #Caturday #cat #book #review #ECCBookReview #void

9 Mar 2025

Miss Hollander draws great cartoons, and really understands cat problems, like being accused of spilling ink on the sofa (it was the dog). She even dedicated the book to her cats -- after some prompting from them. Highly recommended!

1 Mar 2025

This week, in between being fabulous and being amazing, I read Know Your Cat's Purr Points, by Margaret Woodhouse. How could this NOT be a good book? #catsOfBluesky #cat #cute #void #book #review #ECCBookReview

1 Mar 2025

A short but intense little tome on how to become a Purr-Point Practitioner, and make us cats happy; and really, isn't that what life's all about? Eighteen detailed lessons on how to massage a cat, and the level of purr one can reasonably expect to achieve from said massages.

1 Mar 2025

Lesson nineteen is called The Rotisserie, and involves a juicy chicken. As opposed to the boring kibble I'm eating here. Sigh.

22 Feb 2025

This week, I read 50 Simple Ways To Pamper Your Cat, by Arden Moore. Not a bad selection of ideas — who wouldn't love to have specially-made treats and daily massages? — #catsOfBluesky #book #review #ECCBookReview #cat #void

22 Feb 2025

— but Miss Moore totally forgot about things like box fortresses and not shooing us off the counters. She obviously neglected to hire a cat to help her write her book. Better luck next time!

When I asked if the day could get any worse, it was a rhetorical question, not a challenge.

Yhis sweet little New Yorker Book Of Cat Cartoons may look small, but it's stuffed full of comics by all the best cartoonists to ever submit to the New Yorker, from Charles Addams (yes, THAT Addams) to Jack Ziegler. #catsOfBluesky #cat #void #book #review #ECCBookReview #Caturday

Thank you for the repost, @catdogsky.bsky.social!

If you can find this book, I urge you to get it. It's perfect litterbox reading, and you can never have enough books about cats in the litterbox, right?

9 Feb 2025

Do you knead your mommy? These kittens do, and they've written poetry about it! If you read and enjoyed 'I Could Pee On This', you will also enjoy I Knead My Mommy. #catsOfBluesky #cat #void #book #review #ECCBookReview #Caturday

9 Feb 2025

Kittens worldwide confess how they love humans, splash about in milk (oops), and even look for siblings who have gone to the Rainbow Bridge. This is a book of more-of-the-same, but when the same is so good, who's complaining?

1 Feb 2025

Be here meow. Have you ever wondered why we kitties are so calm and peaceful? We have achieved Purrvana, and now you can, too. #catsOfBluesky #cat #void #book #review #ECCBookReview #Caturday

1 Feb 2025

This tiny but powerful volume, Kitty Yoga, contains the age-old secrets of the universe. A couple dozen poses are listed here, and if you humans practise them, you too may become one with the universe. Kitty karma is within your grasp. Find this little book. Read it. Be it. Namaste. 🐾

26 Jan 2025

Not all books in my personal library are about cats. (Shocking, I know.) Sometimes, I come across a book that exposes a cold, hard, sparkly truth, like this one: Unicorns Are Jerks. #book #review #catsOfBluesky #ECCBookReview #cat #unicorn

26 Jan 2025

People everywhere idolise unicorns as creatures of goodness and light, but they'd be horrified to know that, in fact, unicorns are jerks. They never replace the toilet paper roll. They talk and text at the movies. And they fart in elevators. On purpose. #unicorn

26 Jan 2025

This perfect little colouring book features eighteen examples of how jerky unicorns can be. Buy this book. Learn the truth about unicorns. And don't be a jerk. #unicornsAreJerks #ECCBookReview

Soooo. The short human actually has a book called How To Talk To Your Cat! (And Get It (sic) To Do What You Want). After I stopped laughing, I realised the author, Lynn Allison, was serious. #catsOfBluesky #ECCBookReview #void #book #review #cat

Thank you for the repost, @botuesky.bsky.social! 😻

The title is misleading, though; this is more a book on how to listen to and understand a cat than how to tell her what to do. There IS a little of that in the book, of course — some nonsense about training us to respond to our names, or poo in the toilet — #book #review

— but apart from that, it's a fairly intelligent read. There's even a chapter on our psychic powers. Meow! 🔮🪄 Worth a read if you've got nothing better to do while you're in the litter box. 😹 #book #review #cat