Kim M. (Eucalia) reviewed on 1/9/2009 + 52 more book reviews

For some reason Dewey just didn't do it for me. After recently reading and falling in love with Marley & Me, I was looking forward to reading another animal book. This book, about a kitten thrown down a library book return slot in freezing Iowa who is adopted by the library and spends the next nineteen years living there and changing lives, promised to fill the bill. Unfortunately, I felt no connection to Dewey and little empathy for his librarian narrator. Perhaps it's just because I've never owned a cat, but I just had trouble caring about his finicky diet or even believing some of his antics. My favorite part of this whole novel was the introduction, "Welcome to Iowa," before Dewey even appeared on the scene. My attention span for Dewey was probably more suited to one of the many magazine articles about him that were described in the book instead of for the book itself.

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