A review by iteechesinglish
The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions by Thomas McNamee

informative

3.5

I recently adopted a cat and have been searching for pet care guides. This book is not that, exactly, but it did provide some useful insights about cat behavior and does give a short overview of different cat care resources. This book is an odd but not bad mix of the author's memories of his pet cat combined with some very thorough scientific research and analysis of cat behavior and the history of the domestic cat. It's not purely a science book and not purely a memoir, but both aspects of the book helped make it more interesting.

I didn't expect to finish this book. I only checked out the audiobook from the library because now that I'm working from home I've started getting headaches from all of the computer screen time. So I'm going to credit the author's writing style as well as the audiobook narrator's soothing voice with actually keeping me listening. 

I didn't find the last two chapters of the book to be as engaging or useful, but other than that I am impressed that the person who wrote this made it interesting enough that I actually finished the thing.