2024/113: The World According to Bob — James Bowen

2024/113: The World According to Bob — James Bowen

‘Saw you with Boris, James,’ she smiled. ‘Did he see you all right?’
‘No he didn’t as a matter of fact,’ I said. ‘ He gave me a pile of Swiss Francs.’ [p. 146]

Read for the 52 Book Club reading challenge: I'd bought it years ago, along with A Street Cat Named Bob, which I read last summer and found uplifting and inspiring. This is very much more of the same: Bob is a characterful and opinionated cat, and confounds those who bother his human (including a thrilling, and rather gory, moment where he sees off a potential mugger).( Read more... )