A cat sits on a pile of clean, folded laundry and thinks, "I'm helping in my own way." Somewhere else, the cat stares at a second to-do list written to manage the first one. At the window, late: "Some nights I overthink. Other nights, I just let it go." Black Cat Diaries, Volume 1 is 122 observations by one nameless cat's small, truthful interior monologue — the kind of thinking most of us do and don't say. Subtitled Observations, Mostly Unhelpful, and honest about it. Not a book of advice. A book of company. For readers who suspect their cat has been taking notes, and worry the notes are about them.