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The Cat's Table
The Cat's Table
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Start date
January 20, 2015
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January 26, 2015

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Loretta
Oct 03, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Lovely, lyrical, quiet story with boyish adventures mixed with adult insights in quiet retrospection. I liked the first half just fine, and then somewhere around the halfway point it became one of those books I fall in love with and keep on my shelves, rather than give away. I will be re-reading this, for the craft, the structure, the characters, and the rich language and connections between all of them.
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Sarah
May 25, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I read a lot of YA fiction. And then I read something like this, which is just a whole other realm of fiction. YA fiction is like Ben & Jerry's ice cream--really tasty, creative, fun. But Ondaatje is like Haagen Dazs--more sophisticated, refined, higher fat content.

Ondaatje is amazing. He's thoughtful about language, his books are rich. I love his stories within stories. I am transported to other times, places, worlds when I read him. Bringing my brain back to reality takes awhile, and I don't r ...more
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Astrid Lim
Oct 15, 2013 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: asia, young-adult, travel, adventures, europe
3,5 stars from me. A beautiful tale about adventures, journey by the ship, crossing the Asia to Europe, both physically and culturally. Immigrant from Sri Lanka who moved to England, with their own baggage and dreams. I love the three friends - Michael, Cassius and Ramadhin - with their own quirks, strengths and weaknesses. And of course, all the adventures, mysterious characters they met on the ship - and the journey itself, in 1950s a cruising journey across the oceans was a memorable adventur ...more
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Ruth
Dec 20, 2011 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
3.5. Beautifully written and mysterious, but not super substantial.
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Laine
Feb 02, 2022 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
I love stories about travel and voyages.
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