Book of CatsUrsula K. Le Guin loved cats though loved may not be the right word. She was fascinated by them, entranced and endlessly amused by them and their catness, at once inscrutable and silly, mysterious and madcap. As she described it, "The presence of a cat keeps me in touch with the mystery, the unreasonableness, the beauty, the stubborn wildness of the nonhuman world." In her life as in her art, Ursula K. Le Guin was fascinated by the feline. This