Call me...call me whatever you like. I've had many names over the years. Did you think I was going to say Ishmael? Or actually tell you my real name? Not today. Maybe not tomorrow either. I bet you're wondering how a cat knows about Moby-Dick. Especially the tortoiseshell cat sealed in the box in this lab.
Morín, Tomás Q. Cat Love: A Novel, p. 1.
I meow, and it sounds like no meow that's ever come out of my mouth. I try again, and I'm reminded of an egg bubbling in a skillet. A few more times, and my meow is mostly back. My babies wouldn't recognize it, but no matter, because smell is what counts. Wait, do I still have a scent? Surely, death never stopped anything from smelling. If anything, it amplifies, but who knows how any of this works. Where's my Virgil, my guide through all this insanity?
Morín, Tomás Q. Cat Love: A Novel, p. 56.
Today's Featured Book:
Cat Love: A Novel
by Tomás Q. Morín
Genre: Fiction
Published: June 9, 2026
Page Count: 207 pages
Summary:
The indelible cat heroine of this unexpected tale recalls her life with “the Mustache,” her beloved owner. Trapped in a one-way mirrored box, displayed in a classroom for people who must contemplate her fate as part of their training to become “Emotional Support Humans,” she weaves a self-soothing paean to the poetry, music, and creature comforts she shared with her Mustache—the best products of a society that has gone off the rails in its violence and intolerance.
The Texas Book Festival is November 14 and 15, and I've been looking through the schedule in preparation for our trip there. On Saturday, I saw there will be a session called A World Gone Mad: Existentialism in Fiction featuring two books, Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent You and Cat Love: A Novel by Tomás Q. Morín. How could I resist looking for these?
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What’s the creepiest book you’ve read that isn’t officially horror, but gave you chills? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee-Addicted Writer)
Books about war, with graphic details, including The Things They Carried and The Narrow Road to the Deep North, are books that are not horror, but are horrible to read.
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