Morgan Mead’s Reviews > Beware the Cat: The First English Novel > Status Update

Shoutout Mouseslayer. Girl (yes. It’s a cat) really was slut shamed by a weird cat government. Andrew Lloyd Webber used this as his inspiration for Cats but I just can’t prove it

Hey guys. Check it out. I’m reading Beware the Cat AGAIN. When I decided to get my MA in Shakespeare studies no one warned me that I would be reading a book about a cat named Grimalkin that sets up her own government and eats people but here I am :)

Look I’m not reading this again. But I’ve read so much scholarship the last few months that I deserve to have another book on my bookshelf. Don’t judge me.

This fricken book sent me to the British library manuscript room.

I mean yeah trust the title. Beware the mfing cat.

Me vs cat (the cat is winning)

Have you ever spent an hour trying to map out a single church in relation to a prison? Cause I have (I’m genuinely having so much fun. This is like a puzzle but the puzzle is a bunch of research rabbit holes)

Ok so I am in fact doing an in depth edit of a paragraph of this. Like I’m looking at the original manuscript, editing for clarity, and providing notes as if I was an Arden editor. But it’s so much work I feel like I deserve to have this be part of my reading challenge…