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S'està carregant… Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technologyde Caroline Paul, Wendy MacNaughton (Il·lustrador)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A beautifully illustrated book that should only be read in hard copy, not Kindle. It's the brief, but heartfelt, tale about a couple whose cat disappeared. Altho the cat returns on his own, he is obviously eating somewhere else. This drives his people crazy. They start an investigation to find out where he's been and is going back to. The volume morphs into a detective story as they use GPS and a kitty camera. Turns out to be a lovely small tale about our relationship with our pets and our neighbors. Another of those fast reads I need right now and worth the time to dash thru. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Premis
Pets.
Nonfiction.
HTML: Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things couldn't get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, mourned his loss. Yet weeks later, Tibia waltzed back into their lives. His owners were overjoyed. But they were also...jealous? Betrayed? Where had their sweet anxious cat disappeared to? Had he become a swashbuckling cat adventurer? Did he love someone else more? His owners were determined to find out.Using GPS technology, cat cameras, psychics, the web, and animal communicators, the authors of Lost Cat embarked on a quest to discover what their cat did when they weren't around. Told through writer Caroline Paul's rich and warmly poignant narrative and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton's stunning and hilarious 4-color illustrations, Lost Cat is a book for animal lovers, pet owners, and anyone who has ever done anything desperate for love. .No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, by Caroline Paul, illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton, is a short, kind of cute, illustrated book about Caroline Paul’s cats, Tibula and Fibula. The cats are litter mates, but very different. Paul is injured when she crash lands an experimental plane, and she endures a long convalescence in her home, cared for by Wendy MacNaughton. While Paul is convalescing, Fibby disappears for a few weeks and then returns unharmed. Depressed and physically limited by her injuries, Paul becomes obsessed with discovering where Fibby had spent his time and why.
Paul’s obsession results in consulting psychics, pet detectives, and using GPS receivers and cameras attached to Fibby’s collar, in an attempt to find where and with whom Fibby spent the missing time. It’s all kind of cute and Paul does try to put some meat into the story by associating her obsession with Fibby’s escapades with the depression that accompanies her convalescence and by showing us that the resolution of these problems requires engagement with her neighbors—actually talking to people and being nice. But although it rings true, I just didn’t care much. I only finished the book because it was so short and the pages flew by filled with MacNaughton’s nice illustrations.
Forty years ago, when I had my own tomcat who disappeared for days at a time, I might have cared a little more, but now, not so much. ( )