#ReadingTheMeow2025

[Jack]

Just for Fun! #ReadingTheMeow aka Cat Read Week. June 9-15, 2025
Read a novel one or more references to cats, kittens, or other felines in the work.

This is part of the multi-site annual week-long celebration of cats and books. This event invites readers and bloggers to read books with cats in them and share their reviews/thoughts. The book can be any genre in Japanese light novel literature (there is a wide range which features cats–whether children’s fiction or graphic novels, classic fiction, cosies or nonfiction, poetry and much more)–the only rule is the cat in it must have a significant (or at least reasonable) part, not just be present.

I will post some suggestions as we get closer.

[Jack]

My friend and a co-moderator of the Japanese Literature forum on GR had a blog post and a podcast on Japanese “Cat Books”. You can find her blog post and a link to the podcast here:
https://readjapaneseliterature.com/20...

I will post a list of LNs in this ‘cat’egory. I just read the first 4 volumes of the LN Secrets of the Silent Witch (Light Novel), Vol. 1. Monica, the Silent Witch, has a cat familiar, Nero, so this counts a ReadingTheMeow selection! :)

[Jack]

RVing My Way into Exile with My Beloved Cat: This Villainess Is Trippin' Volume 1 by Punichan. currently 3 volumes tranlsated to English.

The White Cat's Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King's Lap: Volume 1 by Kureha. 8 LN volumes translated to English.

The Tanaka Family Reincarnates: Volume 1 by choco. Two LN volumes translated to English.

more to come...

[Jack]

I highly recommend She and Her Cat: Stories by Makoto Shinkai

[Selena]

Not a light novel but a good light read, I really enjoyed The Cat Who Saved Books

[Jack]

Selena wrote: "Not a light novel but a good light read, I really enjoyed The Cat Who Saved Books"

Oh! I liked that also. The sequel The Cat Who Saved the Library, also by Sōsuke Natsukawa, recently out in April. Haven't read it yet but friends have been looking forward to it.