{"id":13729,"date":"2014-08-19T19:16:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T00:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13729"},"modified":"2014-08-19T19:16:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T00:16:07","slug":"book-report-101-reasons-why-a-cat-is-better-than-a-man-by-allia-zobel-1994-and-women-who-love-cats-too-much-by-allia-zobel-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/19\/book-report-101-reasons-why-a-cat-is-better-than-a-man-by-allia-zobel-1994-and-women-who-love-cats-too-much-by-allia-zobel-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>101 Reasons Why A Cat Is Better Than A Man<\/i> by Allia Zobel (1994) and <i>Women Who Love Cats Too Much<\/i> by Allia Zobel (1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1558505415\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1558505415&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/catbooks.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a>It is inevitable: Every autumn, as football season comes around, I find myself behind my best pace from the past in book reading (2011, wherein I read 106 books).  So I pick up little comic books and whatnot that I can flip through while watching football games.  Which explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1558505415\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1558505415&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">these<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1558504362\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1558504362&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See, it&#8217;s only the Internet age that thinks cats are just now the centerpiece of lists, but in the olden days, little book forms of humor relating to cats (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/dual-book-report-all-i-need-to-know-i-learned-from-my-cat-by-suzy-becker-1990-101-uses-for-a-dead-cat-by-simon-bond-1981\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>All I Need To Know I Learned From My Cat<\/em> and <em>101 Uses for a Dead Cat<\/em><\/a>) were pretty widely available.  They must have gone as gifts a lot of times.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, this one-two punch comes with a marriage for the author sandwiched in between.  The first deals with how nonjudgmental a cat is and how a cat will never pressure a woman.  Which is unlike any cat I&#8217;ve ever known.  The second book covers such fecund territory as how badly a cat treats its owners and why they still put up with it.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s about what you would expect, and it&#8217;s as amusing as the comics page of the newspaper.  Perhaps it&#8217;s better if you&#8217;re a woman.  Or if it&#8217;s 1994 again.<\/p>\n<p>Man, we&#8217;ve got a whole football season of these non-thoughtful book reports to look forward to.  And they&#8217;re even less amusing than the books themselves.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1558504362&#038;asins=1558504362&#038;linkId=BUKK65CZPYMTSXXE&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe>&nbsp;<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1558505415&#038;asins=1558505415&#038;linkId=3PXDDP7T2SSQZB7L&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is inevitable: Every autumn, as football season comes around, I find myself behind my best pace from the past in book reading (2011, wherein I read 106 books). So I pick up little comic books and whatnot that I can flip through while watching football games. Which explains these books. See, it&#8217;s only the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13732,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729\/revisions\/13732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}