Well, I didn't expect THAT ending. I liked this book, and thought it was interesting the way your sympathy for the characters changed. Lots of people didn't like it though - see their views here.
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories by Tim Burton was as bizarre as you might expect from the director of films like Beetlejuice. It was strangely touching in some places and truly horrid in others - and funny at the same time. A tiny, tiny read, ideal for my purposes at this stage in the Book-a-Day.
Day 319; Book 309
Concerned owner takes their cat who's been limping for 3 days to the vet,
only for the cat to suddenly be meowgically better and for the vet to tell
them that the cat fakes injury for attention: 'When we got home he
immediately started limping again'
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Cats will get what they want, no matter what they have to do for it.
All cat owners find this out in one way or another - cats are way smarter
than people...
9 hours ago