Book Review: Why My Cat Is More Impressive Than Your Baby by Matthew Inman, aka The Oatmeal

I saw this book in a store, neglected to buy it, regretted it, and several days later ran across it in another store and jumped on it. After all, I love my kitties and I have no baby, so this book was a natural for me.

The Oatmeal is a hilarious, well-known cartoon I've run across a few times over the years and always enjoyed when I did. I nearly bought the last book, How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You, except that I assumed it would be a very short book (answer: yes.) In this book, the cat is often plotting to kill the baby. But the cat is so obviously superior to the baby that death isn't warranted--the battle was won before it began. With hysterical cartoons about pyromania, poop, and the vast superiority of cats, this book will be a real winner with pretty much any cat lover, even those odd ones who seem to prefer babies. There's simply no denying their aroma and lack of self-cleaning mode.

Are those the eyes of a killer? Yes.

I discovered this book at Loyalty Bookstore in Washington DC but I bought it at Kramerbooks, also in DC.