Dewey, the library cat

You'd think being a librarian and a cat lover, I'd have heard about Dewey Readmore Books, but I just noticed the book about a library cat (they aren't uncommon) at JoAnn's blog, Every Day Matters who had read it on a trip. So I looked at Amazon, which no longer lets me down load cover photos, and I read the PW review,

From Publishers Weekly One frigid Midwestern winter night in 1988, a ginger kitten was shoved into the after-hours book-return slot at the public library in Spencer, Iowa. And in this tender story, Myron, the library director, tells of the impact the cat, named Dewey Readmore Books, had on the library and its patrons, and on Myron herself. Through her developing relationship with the feline, Myron recounts the economic and social history of Spencer as well as her own success story—despite an alcoholic husband, living on welfare, and health problems ranging from the difficult birth of her daughter, Jodi, to breast cancer. After her divorce, Myron graduated college (the first in her family) and stumbled into a library job. She quickly rose to become director, realizing early on that this was a job I could love for the rest of my life. Dewey, meanwhile, brings disabled children out of their shells, invites businessmen to pet him with one hand while holding the Wall Street Journal with the other, eats rubber bands and becomes a media darling. The book is not only a tribute to a cat—anthropomorphized to a degree that can strain credulity (Dewey plays hide and seek with Myron, can read her thoughts, is mortified by his hair balls)—it's a love letter to libraries. (Sept.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Then I checked around and it also had some other nice reviews, this one from USAToday. I just may have to take a look.

My cat loves books. If I have one in my lap, she wants to sit on it. If the light is dim, she will sit right at my elbow blocking the light. She loves to walk around on the bookshelves checking out the latest gap or space, to see if she can fit into it.