Responses to "Qwill's always reading something edifying, enlightening, or entertaining. What titles would you suggest he next grace his nightstand with?":

Rebecca [site maintainer]

I'd recommend Natsume Souseki's (usually spelled "Soseki" over here) I Am a Cat, the tale of a stray who comes to live with a well-meaning but inept teacher in turn-of-the-nineteenth/twentieth century Japan. (Actually, with the personal pronoun that was selected, the title would actually translate to something like *I* Am a Cat, which I think is very fitting given the species.) I can't quite recommend the entire work - I've read only the first volume, I hear that the denouement is none too happy, and the third chapter concentrates excessively on the humans - but I'd highly recommend the first two chapters, at least (which are long chapters). Both the cats and the humans are hilarious - the autobiography of a wry and uniquely self-aware but very feline kitty is perceptive and thoroughly enjoyable, and I've never read a more on-target skewering of pretentious (mistakenly) self-appointed literati. (Tell me you do not know a person like Waverhouse.)
I had another suggestion to make, but...um...I forgot what it was. -_-;;

J. M. McKinley

I've noticed that Ms. Braun has never made mention of the Bible as a reference or a "clue-source" in any of her Cat Who... storylines. Couldn't Koko have a field-day waiting for Qwill to sort out clues from its many adventures and tales?
Oh well....just a thought!

Teresa

I would place the following books on his nightstand: any book found at the scene of a murder (might be clue), scripts from plays his father was cast in, Nat'l Geo picture book of archived cat photos, and definately not anything religious.



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