What Books are Your Cats Reading This Summer? (Ophelia is reading Vonnegut)

This summer, I, Ophelia discovered Kurt Vonnecut.  You see, Mistress Elizabeth was embarrassed when Kurt died this Spring and everyone on Gather was paying tribute to this famous writer and she hadn't really ever read any of his books.  So, off to the bookshelves in the bedrooms of the city boys who only come  home once in a while  she went to find "this master of contemporary literature". On Zach's shelf she found Piano Player.  "Ummm....I though this guy just wrote science fiction, well, I'll take a peep and see how it goes", she said to herself.  Soon she was engrossed reading on the front porch in the steamer chair where I take both my morning and afternoon naps.  The only time she gave the chair up is when she walked that spoiled dog of hers or played on the machine that sits on the desk where Sophia likes to lay.

  One day she left her book on the steamer chair and I happened to glance inside...ummm, not for me...talked about machines taking over, dissatisfied workers called Reeks and Wrecks , and people with high IQ's taking over and running the country.  Doesn't look like that is happening too soon here in America.... imagine Bush with an engineering or a science degree! That really is black humor... black, black humor.  I don't know about this Vonnegut guy... seems a tad like a Prophet of Doom to me! 

The next book Mistress started reading was called Galapagos.... I thought it was about the Wild West and horses galloping into the sunset....should of known better with a writer like Vonnegut... no wild horses... just wild, absurd stories about the human race turning into creatures with little brains and flippers told by a ghost, mind you.  I just flipped through it ... did find something interesting though...must remind Mistress Elizabeth not to use that machine she uses all the time because other wise she'll start talking in quotes... meaningless quotes. She already talks in several languages...but if she starts quoting all the time, I think I will take a cruise ship to Galapagos!   Anyhow, that girl just zoomed through that book... then she gave it a rest for awhile... no more reading on the steamer chair...I had it back!

But last Monday, what does she do...bring home another Vonnegut book...this one entitled Slaughter-House-Five.  I thought it was about the neighbor's house where they are continuously killing little mice and moles and sometimes even birds and leaving them on our porch.  Mistress Elizabeth doesn't know about the neighbors...she keeps blaming Sophia and me...she knows better then to blame Othello... he's such a lazy old brute. He used to be a real fighter, then he got his ass whipped really bad, and it scared him half to death...now he's a pacifist like Mistress Elizabeth...mamby-bamby, that's what I call him.  He couldn't catch a mouse if one sat on his head! 

Anyhow, I'm going to try to give this book a try and see what old Mr. Vonnegut is up to now...I see it's about a Pilgrim...so just maybe he's going to talk about the killing that went on between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans...but I also saw, when I paged through it, something about aliens from outer space. I really do believe this guy is wierd...I don't know why Mistress Elizabeth likes him so much!  Oh well, this book just doesn't fire me up...think I'll dream about Trafamadoria...I like living in only happy moments where time and space mean nothing.  What did I just say...time and space mean nothing...holy cow, of course space means something....I like my space on the steamer chair! 

Noticed the Mistress went out again in her Zoom-Zoom Lemon car...what did she bring home?  Another Vonegut book...Cat's Cradle is the name.  Hump!  If she thinks I'm giving up this steamer chair for a cradle, she's as looney as Vonnegut....she can have the damn cradle...or better yet, Othello can! 

Ophelia lives with Mistress Elizabeth in a house in the Woods.  This is her first book review for Gather.