great recipes for kitties. Even have recipes for kitties with special dietary needs. Still have to wait for my cat to test drive some of the recipes though.

Even if you don't feel compelled to cook for your feline friends, Anne Davis's illustrations are a joy to behold! She catches all the nuances of cat expressions, ranging from sly bliss to rank disdain.

Just a collection of thoughts: The original photographs are phenomenal, about 8 feet by 8 feet square. They truly should be exhibited along with the huge landscapes of David Parker, about 12 feet by four feet, which also feature natural arches in the landscape. Lynn Davis' original prints are subdued and of grade one or grade two contrast. (I'd prefer printing on grade three paper.) Lynn Davis has been doing icebergs for a long, long time. I notice that one of her iceberg photos, a color print from 1986, appears in the catalogue "The Indomitable Spirit" published by Friends United Against AIDS. What is missing from the book being reviewed is her most interesting recent landscape print, which can be seen on the card from the November 2001 exhibition at the John Berggruen Gallery. The print on the card is of a dramatic grade 3 contrast. This exciting print features an iceberg in the top left quadrant, with a dramatic inverted arch on the top surface of the ice, a nice reflection of the iceberg in the water appearing between the berg and the viewer, a thin horizon line consisting of a distant ice cliff, and in the sky, an archlike shape in the gentle cloudcover that roughly duplicates (or continues) the arch "scooped out" from the top of the berg. How excited the photographer must have been when she made the exposure. Too bad this print isn't in the book. Too bad the prints in the book are of low contrast. It is interesting that David Parker's book, "The Phenomenal World," also omits the most exciting image from David Parker's exhibition (from the Robert Koch Gallery), i.e., an arch extending from a cliff and into the ocean, with a tiny human figure standing under the arch. Both Lynn Davis' and David Parker's books would go well together, side-by-side on your art book shelf, if only as a reminder to go and see the original prints when they are on exhibit at a nearby art gallery.

Photographer Lynn Davis is one of the best living artists working today. Lynn has an amazingly rich quality in her work which is often simple in format. A purist's take on architectural, monumental sites, and natural wonders. Her subject moves from nature to the sacred, as her travels have taken her to places such as Greenland, Africa, Cambodia, etc. This book is a most suitable document for a very important contemporary photographer.

Lynn Davis does a wonderful job with her book. I have also had the pleasure to view her work in life, and it is wonderful. I would say that Lynn Davis has an obsession with form. The shape of the monuments seem more important than the monument itself. When I look at some of her pyramids, I forget that what I am looking at is a pyramid as wonder about the forms and shapes in the photograph. I think some of her work has a minimal quality to it and others have very interesting compositions. One of my favorites: "Red Pyramid, Dashur, Cairo, Egypt."

Quite a revealing book. This book just reaffirmed my suspicions about the Reagan family. Patti Davis is pretty jumpy in the timeline of the book. She attempts to give the impression that she is a "together" person now, but sounds like a person that has been through a lot of therapy and has still a long way to go. Some of her attempts at circumspect sound like her therapist wrote them. This book was not well written, but I'm glad I read it.

I picked this book up at a Goodwill store for the purpose or re-selling it on an internet auction. Then I opened it and started to read a few paragraphs. Bear in mind that I am of the age where I could easily identify with much of the political content described in this book i.e. Nixon, Watergate, Iran Contra, etc., not to mention the drug activity that permeated the nation during and after the Vietnam conflict. Once I started reading, I kept thinking about it during the day and picked it up again as soon as I had time. There is just too much to cover in a review of this sort, but, suffice it to say that I feel I will not be selling the book now that I've read it. This close personal look at the Reagan family was pretty much what I had imagined, but never realized the suffering the author obviously experienced at the hand of parents obsessed with the need for public approval and acceptance. Having been connected with a prominent family on a local level, the book touched many recognizable chords in my own life.I did feel the book was a bit choppy in parts and didn't always flow well from one scene or situation to another, but not to the point where it was irritating or distracting. Generally, it made me feel that I would like to meet Patti Davis one day. However, in retrospect, after the read, I guess I already have.

If she weren't who she is this would never have netted an agent, let alone gotten published. Patti Davis is strictly an amateur writer. The plot is creaky, the dialogue flat and the drama...well, non-existent. There are thousands of amateur stories on the web available for free, written by "nobodies," that are far better than this. People who think this is great erotic literature should do more reading.

"Bondage" , by Patti Davis , was marketed in the Mainstream, and perhaps the initial reviews were colored by the stature of her parents and sensationalized by the erotic content, but this story touches more closely on the dynamics of D/s, or Power Exchange, than many of the more blatantly explicit and arguably controversial books on the subject that i have read. It is well-written, and she uses descriptions of mundane surroundings and activities to reflect the feelings and emotions of the characters in an indirect way . Never tedious, Ms. Davis possesses an economy of words that is both effective and succinct. And while the sex and BDSM activity is not extremely graphic, she utilizes the technique above to emphasize the more evocative elements, often sound, smell, taste...providing a very lucid impression indeed. Finally, she remains continually in touch with her principal characters, supplying specific details and information about the protagonists to create three-dimensional beings, upon whom we focus our attention, while allowing the antagonists to have enough vaguaries that they remain representative of "types" rather that fully-fleshed individuals.

While mild bondage and sexual mind-games play a large part in the story, it is really a tale about control and surrender of the heart.

~MWvixen~

This book showed a great deal of promise and development, but fell rather flat when compared with other novels of its type. The "eroticism" isn't all that erotic and the characters were cheaply but somewhat well developed. As a whole, while the book was a decent read, I would have to say that there's a myriad of other books on the subject that are far better written, more suspenseful, and erotic. If you find it cheaply, and have a few hours to kill, this is a great book, but unless it meets those criterea, there's no real need to bother.

This book details Ms Davis' struggles for personhood. She surfs through a charmed life on her parents' fame, and then claims to be courageous and independent because she argues with her parents. At the end of her struggle, she acheives a rare shallowness of which she is extremely proud because it's not quite as bad as her parents'. The dirt on the Reagan family was interesting, but only in an Enquirer sort of way. This book reminds me a lot of BD Hyman's book about her mother, Bette Davis.