sally1's review against another edition
4.0
Henrietta was blessed. She led an amazing life so full of adventure. And, as animals always do, she taught her humans the meaning of love.
As an ethical vegan, a couple of the stories were difficult for me to read. One in particular left me wondering how her well-educated humans couldn't anticipate the deadly outcome which I could see coming the moment the rabbit arrived at their home. But like so many others, theirs was a pet-one-eat-the-others family.
Overlooking those couple of issues that were personally hard for me, the book was a delight to read. I thoroughly loved living vicariously through Henrietta as she traveled the world and taught her family about the value of life, as well.
As an ethical vegan, a couple of the stories were difficult for me to read. One in particular left me wondering how her well-educated humans couldn't anticipate the deadly outcome which I could see coming the moment the rabbit arrived at their home. But like so many others, theirs was a pet-one-eat-the-others family.
Overlooking those couple of issues that were personally hard for me, the book was a delight to read. I thoroughly loved living vicariously through Henrietta as she traveled the world and taught her family about the value of life, as well.
cowboylucy's review against another edition
3.0
The amount of traveling this cat accomplished is impressive, but also terrifying. I cannot imagine traveling internationally with a cat. A 2 hour domestic flight with my cat was enough to keep me from doing that again.
lcy_rose's review against another edition
4.0
Joyful nonfiction. This is not a heavy book, but is a delight to read. Following Henrietta, an intrepid cat who in her life covered 4 different continents, and visited more countries than most humans manage. Written by a New York Times international correspondent, you can feel the love he had for Henrietta (however unwittingly). It also gives the occasional exciting glimpse into the world events, crises, and turmoil he covered across the 70s-90s; Henrietta and family in unwitting tow.
It is not an in-depth exploration of being a foreign correspondent, of being an american abroad, or of world politics. But it is a love-letter to a joyful cat, sprinkled with literary and artistic references from each country they lived in. And it was a pleasure to read on a grey weekend.
It is not an in-depth exploration of being a foreign correspondent, of being an american abroad, or of world politics. But it is a love-letter to a joyful cat, sprinkled with literary and artistic references from each country they lived in. And it was a pleasure to read on a grey weekend.
drsarahgrace's review against another edition
5.0
My dad was college roommates with the author, which is how I found out about this book. It's a lot of fun.
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