A Review of The Cat Who Played Post Office by Lilian Jackson BraunRating: Four StarsEdition: Mass Market PaperbackGenre: Cozy MysteryThe Cat Who Played Post Office by Lilian Jackson Braun is the sixth book in the Cat Who Series and was published in 1987. For those not familiar with the series: ...
My start on this book was a bit awkward, and some background might be in order. Some years back my wife, who is always looking for a good mystery, found a few Cat Who books at a local used book store, and decided to try them. She then attempted to collect more of them, and put them in order. I...
CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!In the book The Cat Who Turned On and Off, Qwilleran, a journalist for the Daily Fluxion, moves into the upstairs apartment of an antique store in Junktown with his two Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. Junktown a rundown part of the city is filled to the brim with antique shops ...
I cannot honestly say I remember how I found this book, but since it was a mystery, and it concerned cats, I thought it might be an interesting read. I have to say I was somewhat disappointed. I realize this is a series of books, and I came in now knowing any of the characters, but I nearly gav...
Sometimes when I re-read a mystery I'm way ahead of the story, and sometimes I'm way behind; this time I was somewhere in the middle. I did not anticipate any of the major events, but I was suspicious of the right people.This book is one after the transition. It seems that Braun wrote several bo...
Jim Qwilleran is on a diet. He discovered he could not catch his breath while chasing Koko, his chocolate brown Siamese cat, at the veterinarian clinic. Once the irritated Koko finally settled and got his teeth cleaned, the vet recommended Jim see Doc Beane, so Jim, taking Beane's recommendation ...
Half way thru the book I realized there was only Koko, and then I realized (after some googling) that this was the second book of The Cat Who series. Now I'll want to read the other two old ones too (already on the queue, and will probably read next). Three of the books were written in 1960s, (.....
I really liked this book; I liked the mystery, I liked Qwill, I liked the cats. What I didn't like:Qwill, who is a billionaire, is Morally Cheap. By that, I mean the guy has money, but he doesn't want to spend it. He has to buy a suit for a funeral, and doesn't want to pay the tailor. Does he...
All my Goodreads friends can finally rejoiced--I've finished all the Cat Who books! Now you can stop getting notifications that I'm reading them/finished with them. Now that I've finished these I figure I owe it to Mr. Qwerillan to write a final review. First of all, these books span decades and ...
Jim Qwilleran and his cats Koko and Yum Yum are three of my all time favorite book characters. This book is the 8th in "The Cat Who" series.First some background: Jim Qwilleran is a newspaper reporter with a hobby of unraveling mysteries. Koko and Yum Yum are his two Siamese cats, both of whom ca...
Qwill decides to get out of Pickax and spend the summer at the cabin in Mooseville. All sorts of problems start happening as soon as he arrives: spider in the furnace pilot, leaky pipes, animal nest in the chimney. The cabin seems smaller than he remembers it from two years ago and he decides t...
In this pivotal fifth installment in Lilian Jackson Braun's "Cat Who" continuum, both Jim Qwilleran's personal life and the setting and pace of the book series change dramatically. Qwill's landlord, the dignified attorney and frustrated chef Robert Maus, who was introduced in the previous install...
was Qwilleran’s motto, and he was remarkably healthy, certainly wealthy, and—if not exactly wise—he was witty. On that particular January morning at seven o’clock, he was sleeping peacefully when he was jolted awake and virtually catapulted from his bed by the crashing drums and brasses of the “W...