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BOOK REVIEW⁠
[Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats] A collection of funny cat poems.⁠
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WHAT I LIKED⁠
This is a collection to read aloud! I loved playing with the phonetics of cats. I actually heard many of these poems chanted aloud as part of a choral reading I judged in 2017. The chants still pop into my head on an unexpected basis. Hopefully now that my brain had full exposure, I can stop humming them in my sleep. My imagination scampered playfully along sleep cats, grumpy cats, alley cats, and pirate cats. I've yet to see the musical or movie.⁠
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WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE⁠
I got what I came for, but it didn't change my life. It is also a product of its time - aka using words like “heathen Chinese” which I’m not sure how I feel about. This was a difficult rating for me (see previous post). The poems aren’t supposed to hold much more than entertainment, and they don’t. Should the rating suffer because of it? I decided to refrain from a 5 star rating because I want to show how truly special those books are. ⁠
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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (by T.S.Eliot) ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️4/5⁠
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