THis book seems to be an ode from one of Maupin's serious fans. It was great insight on Maupins, his life, and who he is. I suggest reading Maupins novels before looking into this.

I highly recommend this book. Enjoyed reading it. The book was funny. Touching. Very real. Gives great insights to the books that Armisted Maupin has written; makes your appreciate them more. Very well written book. I strongly agree with the points of views expressed.

Eagerly awaiting the next Armisted Maupin book coming out soon.

If you are a Tales of The City fan, an Armistead Maupin fan, you will love this book. I couldn't put the book down. It gives more detail than "Armistead Maupin Is A Man I Made Up" (movie), but in a similar fashion, with much input from Armistead himself.

It is a little fix while waiting for the Night Listener to be published (which I am, anxiously)

You'll enjoy the 224 page book with over 1,000 full color terrific, sharp photos in this photo-price guide. Everything from napkin dolls, pie birds, stringholders and laundry sprinkler bottles, to egg timers, childs cups, baby dishes and razor blade banks is shown. Each major topic is fully discussed. A delightful addition to the collector's library and reference shelf.

This brand new year 2001 edition is a great follow-up to the previous volume. This book features 256 pages and more than 1,300 full color, large, sharp photos. Collectors will really enjoy the great variety of items shown and the clarity of pictures. Chapters range from Napkin Dolls, Pie Birds, String holders, and Laundry Sprinkler Bottles to Figural Egg Timers, Razor Blade Banks and more. There's adequate, informative text provided. Collectors of these items will find it of interest and value, particularly with the updated pricing.

This book is full of full color photos. Presented very well! Looking forward to their next book!

It's my favorite book, especially when the nest is on Fister's head. I like when Dirt Boy gets washed. When Dirt Boy sleeps, he finds out he was sleeping in the giant's belly button. It makes me laugh.

What a terrific book! My children sat spellbound as Farnello Fister grew dirtier & dirtier, and cackled with glee at his belly-button bed and green breath! They've always enjoyed playing in mud, but now they look forward to bath time, too!

I just have one question... how do you think of things?

This is such a creative book, I mean, I'm like freaking! Omigod, my kids SO liked this book! I'm like totally stoked about the future adventures of Dirt Boy!

If you are searching for a 'How To' book that gives you explicit details on how to make lotions and soaps from scratch, this is not the book for you. The lotions and soaps listed in this book are made from lotion and soap bases. Otherwise, it is a great guide for at home beauty techniques.

I am in the bath & body business. I bought this book years ago and still enjoy browsing through it each time. It's displayed on my coffee table and guests enjoy browsing through it as well. It imparts a sense of calm, serenity & beauty. The photos are most exquisite.

I can hardly wait to try some of her exquisite bathroom decorating projects and recipes for homemade skin care products. Another great book is "Make Your Own Cosmetics" from Neal's Yard Remedies in London. It's also inexpensive and sold by Amazon.com. Wonderful color photos and lots of easy recipes. The best book I've seen on making vegetable-based cosmetics and much more.

This is a beautiful book with wonderful recipes. I do have a word of warning, however. Although the authors include an aromatherapy section, they DO NOT list any safety data on the essential oils they use in their recipes. I highly recommend getting a real aromatherapy book before trying out the essential oils that they use in their recipes.

Wonderful recipes, with only one caution. Women are frequently advised not to use cornstarch in bath salts and tub teas because it can cause yeast infections on wet or damp skin.

Kathy and Lynne have crafted a beautiful book of practical, distinctive gifts and pleasures you can create in the tranquility of your own home. Their prose is enlifting and motivating, filled with heart-warming thoughts and unique notions. Blend equal parts of science, history, magic, and emotion, bake with passion, and see the results! I was tickled by their essential oil blends and keep a vile of Neroli perfume in my purse. Now, I am unique. And I didn't stop there, I have an entire bathroom cabinet dedicated to bath oils, massage oils, bath salts, and body lotions I have created from recipes in the book. Forgot a birthday? No worry and no need to run to the store, I reach into my cabinet and give a gift worth remembering every time. I have enjoyed everything about this book and think you will too. Good crafting!

I like Maisy as a character, and I like the look of Cousins's drawings. However, I can't help but feel slightly disappointed by this book. First, the narrative voice seems to shift back and forth between Maisy and some omniscient entity, which smaller kids may find disturbing. Second, the plot is unengaging and repetitive. Third, the character of Tallulah is poorly conceived and confusing. I prefer her books that highlight the drawing without a narrative context.

We were given this book as a hand me down in a bag of about 50 others. This is my 22 month old's favorite of them all and I'm here to buy more Maisy books. She can't wait until the end when Tallulah jumps in the tub so she can say "no no!" Last night I had to read it to her 3 times in a row! She loves it but I need some variety! :)

Yep- it's a keeper. Maisy is just so patient and wonderful, as always. But pushy, impatient Tallulah keeps showing up. What can Maisy do?? Nothing, it seems, cause Tallulah is going to do just what she wants, which is play with Maisy. This one caused some concern for my 3-year old son, who wanted to know if I'd be angry if *his* friend, "a girl with braids" came and took a bath with *him*.

This book was cute but in one way it was a little confusing. Max and Max's sister appear to be about the same size in most of the pictures so on a first read through I was confused as to why Max was talking in single words and his sister in full ten word fully grammatical sentences. Then it dawned on my that he was supposed to be a lot younger than she was? The pictures are cute, the story charming but I wish Max had been drawn as much smaller so that he was obviously a younger brother. It would have made more sense to me.

Laugh aloud with Max, as his big sister Ruby endeavors to give him a bath. Max, a typical little "boy" bunny has just finished eating his lunch, and as with most toddlers, half of his lunch is all over him rather than in his belly. Big sister Ruby decides Max needs a bath, so as he waits for the tub to fill, Max enjoys some orange sherbet, and a cup of grape juice. He decides his bath would be more fun eating the sherbet in the water, so as one can expect, the sherbet finds its way into the bathwater and Ruby must start over. The same thing happens with the grape juice; consequently Ruby decides to give Max a shower, "You're going in the shower to get CLEAN, said Ruby." The story ends with Max pointing at Ruby's dress saying, "DIRTY," because in her attempt to bathe her little brother, she accumulates bits of orange sherbet and grape juice all over her dress. Max's expression is priceless!

"MAX's Bath," is an adorable tale about clean and dirty that any "bunny" will find amusing. This little board book measures 7" x 7" x ¼", and is simply illustrated; yet the images are colorful and expressive for easy comprehension. The text is very short; only ten pages long, and embraces humor, which is always popular among children and adult alike. Birth and up.

This is one of the Max board book series that also includes Max's Birthday, Max's Toys, andMax's Bedtime. They are supposedly intended for children from birth to age 2 or so. There are also several non-board books about Max (Max's Chocolate Chicken, and Bunny Money are my favorites) with longer stories designed for slightly older children.

Forget the designated ages. I told my teenage son I had written a couple of reviews of children's books for Amazon and he said, "Don't forget to review Max." He STILL loves them, and wants everyone to know how good they are. When he was 10, he loved reading them to his baby sister, and I understood how he felt. When he was a toddler, the Max books were the only children's books I read that REALLY made me laugh.

Max and Ruby are brother and sister bunnies. Ruby's a little bossy. Max always gets around her in the end. But their relationship remains a genuinely sweet and loving one. Small children, I think, just love the clean-lined, simple pictures, and the striking expressions on Max and Ruby's faces. But any adult or older child who reads the books will see Max as one of the great trickster characters of all times, and Rosemary Wells as one of the most insightful writers around on sibling rivalry.

Do NOT let any child - yours or anyone else's you know - get through being a toddler without meeting Max.

I haven't read much travel writing so I wasn't really sure what to expect. I was drawn in from the very first page to a world of public bathing that I really had no idea existed. By the end of this book I feel that I desperately need to see the baths of Turkey, Russia, Finland and Japan. But what I also discovered is that I want to have Ms. Brue's intrepid sense of daring, her willingness to following the road as it unfolds before her, and her innate ability to have respect and reverence for the various cultures she visits(without sentamentalizing them or making them precious). Brue's question "was it an approach to travel or an approach to life?" stuck with me throughout. The delightful surprise was that the book is highly personal(funny and poignant) but also historical and informative.

I went to hear her speak in New York and was amazed with how passionate she was about baths and bathing cultures. This inspired me to buy the book and my curiousity was rewarded. The book is such a wonderful collection of insights into other cultures and anecdotes about her personal adventures. I highly recommend this to anyone who is looking to get inspired to travel or just wants a witty, warm and fun read on a cold Sunday afternoon.

This is a thoroughly delightful, often amusing, account of Alexia's search for the perfect bath. Once started, the book is difficult to put down; by the end, you not only know a bit more about her 'on hold' relationship with Charles, and want to know even more about her fascinating putative business partner Marina, but you have painlessly absorbed as much information as you could want to know about the differing characteristics of a variety of national public baths. Along the way, you will also have met a number of characters who are not easy to forget, and you will have a guide to which baths to use and which to avoid-of not inconsiderable benefit to one visiting Turkey who, like Alexia, is warned to avoid the 'unhygienic' baths in Istanbul. The evocative line drawings by Lynda Reeves McIntyre which appear at the head of each chapter fittingly complement the book. 

This game sort of went down and the strategy guide didn't have much in it. It was pretty bad.

This is a pretty cool book, but the game is so short and easy you won't need this book. I bought the book after I beat the game, but now that I look at it I wasted my money on the book and the game. This book is great but the game is easy to get through without the book, but if you really need help then this comes in handy.

I just got this game yesterday, and it is great! It seems like everyone is angry because you can't save, only your weapons. This is actually pretty good because if start from the beginning, with all the weapons, you know where to go with more ease because you have more weapons. Also, you have a more variety of enemies, and that too, is cool because there were no Lickers in RE1 or 3, and no Hunters in RE2. Even though, it was short, the parts with those Tyrants(a.k.a. Mr. X/The Big Guy) were pretty cool for two reasons. One, you had to kill him quick before you took too much damage. And two, he most of the time gave you ammo. Which is really good if you use Handgun D and are far from him to take little to no damage. Those Prototype battles were the best boss battles in th RE series. If you are wondering why they are easy battles, read all the files, the info is in there. So, in conclusion, the game proves worthy, even if you can not save, only your weapons.

"The Bride Wore Blue" is actually a rather fun 5 star Regency romance novel -- and if it wasn't for the fact that I desperately wanted to shake the heroine, Felicity Harrison, rather hard, I probably would have awarded it the 5 star rating it deserved.

The novel starts in 1807, when a very young Felicity Pembrooke rescues a young man who had been wounded in a robbery and left to die. Not only does she obtain medical help for him, but she also gets her fiance, Captain Michael Harrison to procure passage for this unknown unfortunate to India. The novel then fast forwards to 1813, where Felicity is now a young widow and living in Bath with her brother, George, and younger sister, Glee, and they are almost penniless. And that's when Thomas Moreland, a very rich and newly returned Indian nabob approaches Felicity with a business proposition. He will settle all the Pembrooke debts as well as set up an annuity for both Felicity and Glee, if Felicity agrees to introduce Thomas and his sister, Dianna, to Bath society. Felicity is torn: she'd like nothing better than to throw Thomas's money back at his face, but she cannot deny that she and her siblings need the money desperately, esp if she wishes to launch Glee into Bath society in style. And so gritting her teeth, Felicity agrees to sponsor the Morelands. The more time she spends with them, the more she begins to like and respect them, esp Thomas who intrigues her, and whose ardent attention makes her feel young and alive again. Could she be falling for the 'vulgar' nabob?

Many years ago, Thomas Moreland fell in love with the ministering angel who rescued him. She, however, was about to marry someone else. Now, years later, Thomas is in a position to both help and woo Felicity Harrison. However, it is a well known fact that Felicity is still in deep mourning for her husband, and that she has no desire to ever marry again. Thomas is nothing if not persistent. With patience, kindness and devotion, he hopes to win Felicity's affections. But there are those who disapporve of the developing relationship between Thomas and Felicity, and they begin a campaign of whispers and slanders against Thomas, hoping to drive a wedge between Felicity and Thomas. Will Felicity believe the slanders and turn her back on Thomas or will she believe in his love and intregity?

The Bride Wore Blue" is quite a fun read, even if the language was at times a tad too Americanized, as well as a little high flown in parts. The characters were all rather well developed, and it is hard not to take the hero of this romance novel to heart. After all what is there not to like? He is kind, generous, good looking and utterly ardent in his courtship of Felicity. Which was probably why I wanted to shake her ever so often. When Felicity first meets Thomas (in 1813) he makes her feel intimated and petty about her snobbishness, and so she takes him into great dislike. And while I understood her snobbish attitude (let's face it: aristocrats still behave the same way in this day and age), it still grated. It takes quite a while before she softens towards him, and just when things are beginning to look good Thomas, she discovers that he is the man she rescued all those years ago, and jumps to the conclusion that he is being condescending and sneering about her behind her back. How she arrived at this conclusion left me totally in the dark, esp given that up till then she'd decided that he was quite and honourable man. Again, it takes a lot of persistence and patience on Thomas's part to win her favour. And again just as things are going his way, something else happens and Felicity turns her back on him once more. And while I had begun to wonder about Thomas's devotion to Felicity, I simply couldn't understand what was going on in Felicity's mind. For an intelligent woman, she persisted in acting like a snobbish nitwit! One couldn't even claim that it was a case of past history making her unsure and wary of men, as the sketchy history Cheryl Bolen provides us with about Felicity's marriage seems to suggest that it was a good one, if not a terribly passionate one. Felicity seemed to need others to interpret Thomas's behaviour for her, and that made very little sense to me.

All in all however, this was an enjoyable read. I liked the hero, and wished that there were more romance heroes like him. I'd recommend reading this novel as well as the next one in the series, "With This Ring."

Cheryl Bolen's The Bride Wore Blue is the kind of book I fell in love with when I first started reading the romance genre. Set in Regency Bath, it comes complete with a darlky handsome hero, and a beautiful, straitlaced heroine. You'll also love the secondary characters, especially the heroine's young sister, whose story is told in an upcoming release, With This Ring.

Cheryl Bolen proves once again that she is totally comfortable in the Regency period. Her stories are always passionate and interesting and The Bride Wore Blue is no exception. Her widowed heroine takes on her unruly siblings and is stalked by a villian that gave me chills. Bath is a great setting and I look forward to reading more in this series. The combination of romance and suspense can't be beat. I'd recommend this book to anyone.