Alan S. Cowell

Dolores wakes up one day to find she is sharing the family cats body “X” but still on the way to a conference in another city. I really enjoyed the authors detail of being a cat, the feels and smells and wonders but it got a bit old after 60 pages of cat information. I was hoping for more of a funny book where human and cat conscious have a equal share of use over the cats actions. It seemed that the cat was being used more as a spy camera on the family instead of the wife being able to take the actions of the cat and interact with her family.… (altro)

If you've wondered what's like trying to be a journalist when journalism no longer has a sustainable business model this novel may be for you, but it had a lot of jargon that only another journalist would understand. Set in Paris it was less about the first person narrator and more about his craggy journalist counterparts who had their prime when journalism was still a raw and exciting industry rather than spend behind desks at a computer. I don't usually review books I haven't finished but I got 120 pages in and I didn't care what happened to any of these characters and felt I wasn't the audience for this book. Cowell can write but I wasn't interested in his subjects enough to continue.… (altro)