Cat of the North and Other Tales by Shirley M. McGrath
I will fully admit that I’m not a cat person. First, I am allergic to cats, so that doesn’t help matters. But, in addition to that unequivocal bias, I also find cats to be rather standoffish. The cats I have liked the best tended to be the ones that behaved most like dogs, and the dogs I have liked the least tended to behave most like cats.
Along the Camino Portugués: An Illustrated Travel Memoir by Julia Zacharias
Have you ever heard of the Camino de Santiago? Until I read this book, I had only vague notions of what it was. I knew, for example, that it was one of several well-known pilgrimages people may go on during their lifetimes, such as a trip to Mecca in Saudi Arabia or along the Kumano Kodō in Japan.