5/20/2023 0 Comments Rahasia hati natsume sosekiThis book is best read with a nice fat cat curled up in your lap purring away. "I've had enough of being farted at by weasels and crippled with side-swipes from the fishmonger's pole" That will give you more than enough of an idea of the book as a whole. If you're curious about Japanese life around 1900 or you really, really, really love cats, then read the first 100 pages of this book. An occasional visitor provides most of the liveliness he's a wit with a propensity for telling silly stories that promise a great payoff and usually fail to deliver. It's more insightful than I feared it might be, but less engaging than I hoped it would be, mostly because the household that the cat occupies is a humdrum one. Most of the book listens in on the discussions the teacher, his wife, and his friends have about everyday life, love, and bureaucracy. It's a gentle satire told from the point of view of a household cat in the home of a teacher of modest means and abilities. I Am a Cat was written by Japanese author Soseki Natsume at the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s. Reading the book has been a lot like having a cat as a pet - occasionally delightful, sometimes insightful, and frequently annoying. If anyone asks you what it's like to be a cat, hand them a copy of the book and walk rapidly away. I've been a cat now for what seems like an eternity.
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