Get Out of There, Cat! by Kristina Knapp
My rating: 3/5 cats
this is another one of those silly books that i pick up because i am weak-willed. if there’s a cat on the cover, i’m drawn like butter.
unfortunately, this is another one of those silly books where the text isn’t strong enough to provide an equal partnership of entertainment value to the accompanying photographs.
because look—adorable!!
but then—words make it less funny.
so let’s just look at the pictures and forget about the words, shall we?? you know, like we should do with all the books. i mean, i gotta be honest with you—i’ve been too tired to read lately, so i’ve just been reviewing books by what i think they’re about based on their covers. sorry if i’ve led anyone astray. maybe To Kill a Mockingbird isn’t a sequel to The Giving Tree, but that’s what i got out of it and littry interpretation is all sorts of subjective and any takeaway is valid so no one can tell me i’m wrong.
look at that tree—letting that child swing all over it and getting all desperately grope-y with its branches. and now that kid is probably gonna hit it up for money and bounce. that tree is a sucker.
and that is what To Kill a Mockingbird is about, kids!
speaking of trees!
i’m not sure how some of these cats got into these predicaments. i don’t even know what this is:
maybe someone else can explain that to me—my interpretive powers were exhausted on that To Kill a Mockingbird riff back there.
here are some of the cutest pictures from the book. feel free to ignore those pesky words.
many of these are familiar to you if you have ever owned a cat. or looked at the internet.
and please do feel free to use this thread as a place to post your own pictures. or you could send them to the tumblr that spawned this book, if you want to be more famous: http://getoutoftherecat.tumblr.com/
who can even sleep like that?? a cat, that’s who!
so, yeah, there are a lot of great cats in this book, way more than this little sampling of my favorites.
i’ll stop soon, i promise, but i mean wookit!
it is a little FACE!
and snuggles!!!
since the great bedbug fiasco of ’15 and all my stuff having to live in bags for now, maggie hasn’t been able to lie on my books the way she likes, so here are some other cat-nerds to fill the void in all our hearts:
this cat actually looks like a slightly-less-cute version of maggie!
and here are some pictures of maggie from the middle of the great migration, when drawers were being emptied and books were being stacked and suddenly there were new crannies to explore:
she looks so proud of herself.
get out of there, cat, indeed!!
and because i am a sucker for good endpapers:
okay, i’m just gonna post a few more pictures. pretend these are end credits. you can stay to the end, you can leave, just make sure you take all your belongings with you when you do leave. otherwise, the cats will probably shred them. or barf on them. because rude.
CATS!!!
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