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If Cats Disappeared from the World
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March 1, 2023
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May 31, 2023

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Joanna
A strange little book that reminded me quite a bit of Haruki Murakami. I enjoyed the simple writing style and the musings on the world and the meaning of life. The author starts from an interesting premise--that the devil will grant a terminally ill person an extra day of life for each thing the person agrees to remove from the world. But the book isn't a science-fiction exploration of what would happen if these things really disappeared (i.e., like what happens in The Memory Police). Instead, t ...more
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