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Title: Nightfall One

Author: Isaac Asimov

Type: Fiction

Page Count: 176

Rating: 3.5/5

This book was unfortunately a little bit of a letdown, which itself is quite surprising. This book is pretty odd because it was published alongside Nightfall Two in paperback, while the hardback just combined the lot of them. I think that might have been the best way to read it.

Perhaps part of the problem here is that the stories are all listed in chronological order, and so Asimov got older as the collections went on. That means that his older stuff comes later, and I personally feel as though he developed as a writer over the years. Not everyone agrees with me.

It’s still worth reading though, if only because everything Asimov wrote is worth reading. I just didn’t get quite as much out of it as I was expecting. Another reason could be that these stories were longer than those in the other book, and Asimov’s great at ideas. Shorter stories means more ideas to consider.

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Celia Haddon – Cats Behaving Badly | Review

Title: Cats Behaving Badly

Author: Celia Haddon

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 250

Rating: 3*/5

Celia Haddon – Cats Behaving Badly

My main problem with this book is that the entire thing felt like one long advertisement for Feliway. It felt like that was the answer to one half of the questions and the answer to the other half was to rehome your cat. Celia Haddon, the book’s author, is a cat agony aunt, and while she does offer a fair amount of good advice in this book, it also gets pretty repetitive. and I felt as though some of the questions could have been combined or removed altogether.

Still, if you can get past that then it’s a decent enough reference book, and you can’t say that it’s not comprehensive. It covers pretty much every area you could ask for including questions about breeding cats or caring for specific injuries or illnesses. I read it from cover to cover though, and I guess that’s not really how it’s designed to be read.

All in all, it was okay, and it pretty much lived up to the low expectations that I had for it. I’m not sure if I’d necessarily recommend it though, even to other cat owners. Even the anecdotes of the cats that Haddon has met fell a little flat. There was just something about it that stopped me from engaging with it, and that’s a shame. Maybe I just already know enough about our furry feline friends.