If you, like me, love cats, you will enjoy this book. Homer is an amazing cat!

Best book I've ever read- ordered one for a friend

A charming and engaging read. Highly recommend.

best book ever. I love Homer, kudos to his mom. I love this series.!!!!

I loved the book. I couldn’t put it down. Homer just amazed me. I wish more cat owners would take the time to write about their cats exploits. I wish I had met Homer. He sounded like a true character. Especially chasing out a burglar. This book was an enjoyable read.

Amazing story of a blind cat who outperforms all the early predictions for his life and his"mom". Gwen Cooper's writing is masterful as she takes you through the highs and lows of their life. Even if you're not a cat lover this is an inspiring story.

This book is a sweet and inspirational story about a cat AND a human. I gave it to a black cat owner who has used it in his therapy group. Yet, it is not a soppy story. Just a unique one. Read it and find out! Arrived on time and in great condition.

Incredible story that was difficult to put down. No wonder it's a best seller. Personally, I'm not a "cat person." I'm very much a dog person, but this book is for anyone who cares.

By the end of the book felt like I lived this life with Homer and Gwen. My friends recommended this book and I’m glad I listened.

Homer is a truly remarkable cat, and being blind does not hold him back at all. He has adventures, gets along with his house mates, land continues to Amuse and confound the reader with his antics and intelligence. A must read for cat lovers)z

Loved this book from the beginning to the end. But I am already a cat lover as two of them are laying right next to me in bed right now. The one thing I did not like about this book was the quick transition from getting to her apartment after 9/11 and the cats jumping in her lap, to the next paragraph that said the next morning she wrote checks to her cat sitter and the ASPCA. I really wanted to know how she got all of the Cats her personal stuff the cat litter box the litter the cat food etc etc down 31 flights of stairs.

If you love cats you will love Homer and this book! What a wonderful real-life story of a woman, who despite owning two cats and living in an apartment, adopts a blind kitten. But he's not just blind, he has no eyes, as his eyes were removed when he was just a very young kitten. But the story of the travails and triumphs of cute little Homer will melt your heart! You'll read how he managed to map out his home in three dimensions using his senses of hearing, touch, smell, and perhaps a sixth sense of knowing all. His sixth sense allow him to run around and jump up on various furnishings without bumping into walls or otherwise hurting himself. You'll also read how Homer and his two cat friends were trapped in their apartment for days because their building was in the danger zone after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. (Without giving away the story, they came through without a scratch due to the derring-do of Homer's human mom.) If you love cats and the people who love them you will really enjoy reading Homer's story.

This is a story of triumph in the face of adversity, both for Homer and Gwen. It takes a special person to decide to adopt an abandoned, blind kitten when you know there is going to require special attention and care. Gwen didn't shrink from this challenge. She accepted it with the love only a true pet lover knows. I have, among other pets, three rescue cats, who bring me love and challenges to my life but I wouldn't trade them for the world. I wish I could write a long, beautiful review about the joy that this book brought to me, but if you just read the Editorial Review for this book. It says it all, and if I may, I'd like to quote one part from it. "But it was Homer’s unswerving loyalty, his infinite capacity for love, and his joy in the face of all obstacles that inspired Gwen daily and transformed her life. And by the time she met the man she would marry, she realized Homer had taught her the most important lesson of all: Love isn’t something you see with your eyes." Read this book about this wonder cat and also follow Homer's odyssey on Gwen's Facebook page dedicated to Homer - Homer Blind WonderCat.

I love animals - the simple joy they have in just "being" around us is something wonderful to come home to after a hard day of dealing with people, who, by a complex and cruel misfortune, are not always quite so simple. I adopted my first cat my sophomore year in college. I lived alone (and preferred it that way), but wanted to enjoy the company of something more affectionate than a goldfish, so along came Lucky. A few years later, I adopted Kitty because I started working full-time and wanted my adult cat to have company. I suppose by most conventional wisdom, I would be a 'cat lady'. I fought this label for years, but have since learned to embrace it. Living alone downtown in a metro, being gone for 9 hours a day - doesn't seem fair to have a dog. That said, I never counted myself as someone who would read 'cat books'. When I saw this pop up on my recommendations (what are you trying to say, Amazon?), I picked it up for my Paperwhite and can honestly say I finished in two days. It was that good. It's hard not to love stories like these, but few of us could actually say we would be willing to take the extra time needed to care for a pet with a disability, and this was the case for Homer, who was nearly put to sleep before ever having a chance at life because he had to lose his eyes in order to live and no one wanted him- there's unfair irony buried in there. Along came Gwen, who with two cats of her own, took on the burden, but quickly found herself amazed by Homer's abilities despite his lack of vision. Some of her stories were slightly far-fetched and there was frequent personification of Homer which I found a bit distracting, but Cooper has a real knack for writing, and it was very clear that Homer was a special cat - and they both needed each other. Some have knocked Cooper for writing too much about herself and not Homer, but I found this one of the better parts of the book. We don't often think we learn things from our pet, but Cooper's adventures with Homer clearly taught her a lot about her life, her values, and her priorities. She had many poignant, memorable quotes throughout this book (which I'll let you discover for yourself), and it was an extremely heart-warming account, filled with several anxiety-laden moments. I seriously couldn't put it down. Since reading this, I've done some research on Homer. Cooper has raised attention to the plight of thousands of disabled animals around the country, and donated even more to these charities, often inspiring others to make room in their life for an animal that has an infinite amount of love to give, but was never given a chance because at the end of the day, looks matter. At the risk of sounding like a cat lady, I became extremely attached to Cooper and her three cats in this book, which made the sequel a lot harder to read (for obvious reasons). The frequent photos of Homer and Cooper's other two cats heading each chapter were an excellent addition. Overpersonification or not, Cooper's way with words and telling both an internal and external story about a little cat that defied everyone's expectations, as well as her own story, makes this an absolute must-read for anyone who loves animals. I'd encourage dog-lovers out there to give this book a chance, as well. It is absolutely no wonder this book ended up on the New York Times Best Seller list. It is engaging, warm, frightening, heart-felt, and well-written to the point that I couldn't put it down. Thank you Gwen, for not only sharing Homer with the rest of the world, but for taking a chance on him when no one else would. He was truly a remarkable cat. "...we love them [animal stories] because they're the closest thing we have to material evidence of an objective moral order...they seem to prove that the things that matter to and move us the most--things like love, courage, loyalty, altruism--aren't just ideas we made up from nothing. To see them demonstrated in other animals proves they're real things, that they exist in the world independently of what humans invent and tell each other in the form of myth or fable."

Read from April 01 to 06, 2015 OMG! I am in love with Homer! This cat Gwen rescued from her vet is the most touching stories I have read in a while. He was brought in by some people at around 3 weeks with messed up eyes. They said they found him and wanted him euthanized. Well the vet wasn't having any of that, she removed his eyes and when no one wanted him, her last resort was to ask Gwen who already had two cats and couldn't afford another one at the time. She couldn't help herself and took him! The stories about Homer learning the lay of his land in the house is amazing! He just had a strong will to live and discover things. You just have to read the book to get the full effect! I have to say my favorite part of the book is with the burglar. I laughed so hard I thought I was going to crack a rib! Who ever heard of a blind attack cat! Well that burglar was stunned to say the least. I can not believe how funny that scene was, I would like to write it out here but I will save it so you can buy the book :) I am going to add a SPOILER!!!!!! IT'S A PART FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK!!! **SPOILER** *TAKEN FROM THE BOOK* When I walked in with my date, Homer ran to greet me at the door. And there, hanging from his mouth, was a tampon. The whiteness of it stood out against his black fur in vivid, mortifying relief. He scampered around in gleeful triumph for a moment, then promptly ran over and sat expectantly on his haunches in front of me, tampon clutched in between his jaws like a dog with a rawhide bone. My date looked taken aback, to say the least, "What the....is that a.." He stammered for a moment, before finally managing, "Did something happen to your cat?" I hunkered down on my heels, and Homer happily climbed into my lap, dropping the purloined tampon at my feet. "He's fine," I answered. "He doesn't have any eyes, is all." *END* I thought that summed up Homer to a capital T! I recommend this book to one and all, it's a very inspirational story about a cat that beat the odds! Find my Reviews at: www.melissa413readsalot.blogspot.com https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1243096074