I get email like this quite regularly: “I hope that ‘A Farewell to Arfs’ is not the end of C&B. Will there be any more in the future?’ Answer: Yes! Cat on a Hot Tin Woof comes out in April. This particular reader then added something a bit unusual and also heartwarming: “They are so much fun to read it only took me two weeks to go from ‘Dog On It’ to ‘A Farewell to Arfs’.”
Wow! Anyone remember Evelyn Wood? (And may I add that my next book is Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue, July 15 and preorderable. Not dog-narrated but written by the same dude, namely me.)
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Whoa! Evelyn Wood speedreading…what a throwback!
So true what the reader said about reading the C&B books. To me, reading the C&B books is like eating my favorite candy, Peanut M&Ms. Once I start, I can’t stop. :^)
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Evelyn Wood and Mavis Beacon. Mavis stuck but Evelyn didn’t.
I have always been a relatively slow reader. I think I clocked something like between 200-300 words per minute at the start, which was considered slow. Because of it it was predicted I would not do very well in college and likely not graduate.
I may read slow but I have excellent retention.
I have a BA and two masters degrees so there you go.
I’ve never been interested in reading fast as I read for pleasure. I can force myself to skim but I may have to go back as my retention slips. And why should I read fast if I’m reading for pleasure?
Sorta the difference between microwaving a meal for sustenance and taking an hour or two to cook a delicious gourmet meal. Both achieve the same purpose but the second not only gives pleasure in the preparing but also the eating.
To me the C&B series are endless courses of a gourmet meal.
Very well put, ML! I agree 100%! Literature is to be savored, not gulped!