May 27 2007
Making the cat laugh (1995)
Making the cat laugh. One woman’s Journal of single life on the margins. (1995) A book by Lynne Truss, then chief TV critic of The Times more recently famous for writing the ambiguously titled “Eats shoots and leaves“.
The book felt like a collection of paragraphs pulled together in no particular order. Well written, entertaining and suitably trivial to qualify purely as light entertainment. A gift from a friend. It failed to engross me, enlighten me, or make me laugh out loud. Despite the obvious superficial similarities (English girl, single, has cats, her paragraphs like blog posts) I did not find the stories personally relevant.
Making the cat laugh (1995)
