The world is serious out there. Not only am I in the thick of classes and all else that school entails, but with the downward turn in the financial markets, even that “outside world” seems pretty heavy right now. So when I walk into a bookstore, all I want is to get that warm and fuzzy feeling inside. Here’s to those covers that are just nice eye candy. Yummy!



DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO

TOUCHED THE WORLD

by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter

Beautiful, brown, doleful eyes look out from a tawny furry face and just seem to soothingly purr, “Everything’s going to be alright now that Dewey, the small-town library cat, is here.” Sitting on a book in front of shelves of other books, Dewey invites me to just curl up with him right here and fall into a fantasy land of good reading. (Note: cat not included in cost of purchase.)







IZZY AND LENORE: TWO DOGS, AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, AND ME

by Jon Katz

A robust black lab pup stares into my eyes as if I have all the answers in the world. There really is nothing like a warm and fuzzy animal to make me feel warm and fuzzy. Yes, I can and will just take this puppy into my arms and love it. (Note: I will not actually take this puppy into my arms and love it—this is a bookstore, people, not a pet shop.)





A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY: A MEMOIR

by Bill O’Reilly

I know what you’re thinking: Bill O’Reilly? Let me tell you, we’ve done the whole cute animal thing—twice—so it was about time for the cute kid thing, and Bill is the picture of the 50s commercial kid. He is good-looking, upright and proper, and has a small book open in his hands (what could it be? The Bible? The Constitution? The Federalist Papers?) as he looks at the camera in his white-tie apparel. He makes you yearn for the simpler days of childhood, when you could just, you know, run free and wild—in white-tie, of course. (Note: No, I do not want to take Bill O’Reilly home with me.)

—Anna E. Sakellariadis