{"id":16183,"date":"2017-01-18T13:18:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T19:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16183"},"modified":"2017-01-17T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T21:19:11","slug":"book-report-no-one-noticed-the-cat-by-anne-mccaffrey-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/18\/book-report-no-one-noticed-the-cat-by-anne-mccaffrey-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>No One Noticed the Cat<\/i> by Anne McCaffrey (1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0451455789\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0451455789&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/noonenoticedthecat.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0451455789\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0451455789&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_new\">This book<\/a> is the first fiction book I&#8217;ve read in 2017.  It&#8217;s a short novella with a cat on the cover.  Which is probably why I bought it in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fantasy story about political intrigue.  A young prince takes the throne, and his regent passes away; immediately, he must negotiate diplomatically with a neighboring king whose queen is an intriguer who has been killing people who cross her.  Once the young prince takes a shine to one of the eligible royals from that kingdom, he might well be the next target, and it&#8217;s up to him, his trusted advisors, and the cat who might possess the spirit of his former regent, to keep the kingdom and the prince safe.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a quick little bit of fantasy and intrigue, a pretty engaging little bit.  I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s targeted to adults or young adults, but, honestly, so much these days the young adults are as far as adults get, ainna?<\/p>\n<p>McCaffrey is most known for her Dragonriders of Pern series, and although I&#8217;ve probably read one or two in my life, I most associate her with <em>Dinosaur Planet<\/em> and <em>Dinosaur Planet Survivors<\/em>, the latter of which I got from a summertime reading program back when I didn&#8217;t own many books at all and that mass market paperback meant something.<\/p>\n<p><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=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0451455789&#038;asins=0451455789&#038;linkId=c5c929f07d463295c767e166540e0c8a&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is the first fiction book I&#8217;ve read in 2017. It&#8217;s a short novella with a cat on the cover. Which is probably why I bought it in the first place. It&#8217;s a fantasy story about political intrigue. A young prince takes the throne, and his regent passes away; immediately, he must negotiate diplomatically [&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-16183","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\/16183","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=16183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16184,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183\/revisions\/16184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}