A very good collection of short stories! There was a lot of interesting themes and concepts that stayed with you and made you think. What muddied the waters for me a bit was that the 2-3 "meh stories" in here were very meh indeed.
I loved the titular story about an AI with a thing for cat pictures ;).
The other ones I really liked were:
"The Golem" - set in Prague in 1941...
"In the Witch's Garden" - a sci-fi/fantasy retelling of the "Snow Queen"
"Cleanout" - three sisters are cleaning out their parents' house in order to sell it. But where did the parents REALLY come from?
"Artifice" - when one of your friends decides to get a robot boyfriend...
"The Good Son" - a faery falls in love with a mortal and bewitches a childless couple to act as his parents to make courting easier.
"Isabella's Garden" - when you have a two-year-old with magical powers that MAKE THINGS GROW
"Bits" - a sex toy company needs to begin to cater to human/alien couples (very very silly and funny)
"Honest Man" - about an immortal conman ;)
"So Much Cooking" - food blogger stuck at home during a horrid flu epidemic. (Kind of prescient...) ( )

I had to revisit "Cat Pictures Please" and ended up devouring and absolutely loving the entire collection. The last story where a food blogger basically blogs through a global pandemic in quarantine is especially timely...

My favorite story may have been "In the Witch's Garden", a SF retelling of The Snow Queen. ( )

So far read:

-- Cat Pictures Please (2015) - 5*
Available on Spotify and online here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/
Adorable, unique. Often we read stories of Artificial Intelligence that wants to wipe out humans or something evil. This one wants to be helpful and knows a lot about us based on our Google searches and social media accounts. The AI targets cat owners to start seeing if being helpful will work. The AI just loves cat pictures and cat owners post a lot of cat pictures. LOL! Lots of posts about their job making them miserable? Starts putting lots of job ads and how to build resumes in their search results etc....

-- So Much Cooking (2015) - 4*
Free online here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_11_15/
So relevant right now, March 2020. In a Neil Clarke email (of Clarkesworld magazine) he said "here's a pandemic story from our archives that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent days: "So Much Cooking" by Naomi Kritzer. Hope you enjoy it!" (I kept a copy of the audio)

-- Bits (2013) - 4*
Free online here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_10_13
A sex toy company needs to start making sex toys for aliens living on earth. They are coupling with humans but they don't match up exactly right.

- Honest Man (2007) - DNF
I tried on a podcast (Podcastle #39 narrated by Ann Leckie) but I had to quit. The visual story indicates noticeable breaks in the story so you are clued to a change (is it time jumps, perspective, I can't remember) but the audio gives you no such indication and I couldn't keep up/lost interest.

To Read Still:
- Ace of Spades
- The Golem (2000)
- Wind (2015)
- In the Witch's Garden (2002)
- What Happened at Blessing Creek (2011)
- Cleanout (2015)
- Artifice (2014)
- Perfection
- The Good Son (2009)
- Scrap Dragon (2012)
- Comrade Grandmother (2002)
- Isabella's Garden (2011)
- The Wall (2013)

F/sf short stories for the way we live now, from alien sex toys to a search engine-turned-AI that only wants cat pictures to Baba Yaga and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union to a bird flu pandemic-meets-food blog story. If you like the concepts, the execution is fine. ( )

A friend recommended this author's works to me and since we often agree about books I sourced this book of short stories from my library. Unfortunately it is the only book the library has by her so I am going to have to try to remember her name (not my strongest ability) for when I am in book stores and book sales.

The title story won a Hugo Award. It is the first story in the book and is guaranteed to make you dive into the rest of the book. It's about an artificial intelligence who loves looking at cat pictures and she decides to help people who post great cat pictures. Notice I said she because I get a distinct feminine vibe from this AI. It's a great story and cute to boot. Some of the other stories are not cute; in fact they are downright disturbing but they are still well written. The one that will stay with me for a while is the last story, So Much Cooking. It is written as the blog of a woman who cooks. She and her husband live in Minneapolis. As the story starts she is worried about the news reports of people getting ill with swine flu. The flu is highly contagious and often fatal. As people get sick and die food starts to run out; that's kind of a problem for a food blogger but she is adept at making substitutions and using what is available. The reader can feel the terror and stress as it mounts through the ongoing blog entries. This story reminded me a lot of some of the stories in Vincent Lam's Giller Award winning collection of short stories, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. Vincent Lam was a doctor in Toronto during the SARS epidemic so he was at ground zero. I wonder in Naomi Kritzer had a similar experience or if she is just really good at putting herself in the place of someone experiencing it. ( )