Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World I grew up poor in rural Oklahoma in the 50's & 60's, and lived in West Texas in the 80's when the oil field business bottomed, so I can relate to (and sympathize with) much of the author's descriptions of hard times for the people and the small towns of rural Iowa. But I bought the book to read about Dewey, not Ms. Myron, the town of Spencer, Iowa, or the other 80% of the book (if not an accurate estimate, certainly how it seemed to me) that did not directly involve Dewey. As an example, in chapter 7 (chosen at random), out of slightly over seven pages, Dewey is only in the chapter on the last page and then only in reference to people talking about him and how he was allegedly influencing getting funding for the library. I didn't find the book to be extremely boring, but not extremely interesting, either. It wasn't what I thought I was buying, and I feel it was sold to me (by the authors) under false pretenses - I would not have bought it if I had known what it was really about. I gave it two stars instead of one because of Dewey. I wish the book had been about him instead of being about Ms. Myron.