Great Books I'm Reading

Here are two books that I am reading that I had to share.

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter

This is a heart-warming tale of the famous library cat Dewey Readmore Books. Dewey was found in Spencer Public Library's metal book drop on the coldest night of the year in Iowa. His little paws were frostbitten, but his spirit was not broken. His impact on the this small town in Iowa and its inhabitants was tremendous.

What people may not realize is that this story is also about a small farming community struggling to survive and the single mother librarian who saves Dewey and who Dewey saves in return.

I am loving this book, and I don't want it to end.

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Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
(audio book: read by Neil Gaiman)

Scottish Richard Mayhew moves to London, England to start a new job. Within a few years he has made a comfortable, slightly boring life for himself and become engaged to a beautiful woman well above his station who controls his life.

Door is on the run, hiding from her family's killers. When they close in on her location, she desperately opens a door to somewhere - to somebody safe. She falls bleeding, near unconscious in front of Richard and his fiancee on their way to an important dinner.

When Jessica sees the bedraggled woman who looks homeless, she merely steps over her and continues her conversation. But Richard stops. He is always giving money to the homeless, offering his umbrella, etc. They are not the unseen to him. He cannot leave her hurt on the street. When Door pleads not to be taken to a hospital because it isn't safe, Richard picks her up to take her to his flat and help her. Jessica demands he put her down and come with her or she will leave him.

He walks away with Door in his arms.

Richard life is forever altered by this one choice. By associating with Door he loses his identity, becoming one of the unseen - the unwanted. Richard falls into a world of danger and magic in the undercity of London. His life becomes crazy, scary, surprising...

and definitely not boring.

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