Nine Lives: A Journal for My Cat

by Louise Reinoehl Max

From its practical Cat-alog of Kitty's Vital Statistics to pages dedicated to The Great Hunter..."Trophies" My Cat Has Brought Me! or My Cat's Inner Kitten, Nine Lives joyfully captures the experience... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879058897
• ISBN13: 9780879058890
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Previous version better

I have a copy of this edition and a copy of the old (1999) edition. I prefer the old edition to this one because of the binding type. The old version has a spiral binding and this one has a regular book binding. It is harder to add pictures without the book becoming thicker on one side than the other. Other than the binding, I love this book. It is a great place to put the pictures of my cat to remember her.

One of the Better Albums Out There

"Nine Lives" is a photo album for cats. The pages feature different themes (for instance, "Cant' Catch Me", "Mother Nature", and "The Discriminating Palate"), each with corresponding graphics (e.g., the "'Fraidy Cat!" section has pictures of cats with their fur on end). Each page is covered with graphics and a colorful background; while this makes the album attractive to look at, it also leaves a little less room for pictures. My solution was to place photos over the graphics that I wasn't too fond of.The album is meant mostly for photos; there are very few places that are designated specifically for writing - though I suppose you could still write on them if you'd prefer. None of the pages are lined for script.The pages are sturdy and durable. The book is spiral-bound, which makes it easier to attach photos to the pages (i.e., you don't have a crease where pages are bound together at the spine). However, the wire spiral is designed so that some of the back pages come undone if you're not careful. I've tried to tighten the spirals, to no avail."Nine Lives" is about as big as a medium-sized book; the largest photos it will fit are approximately 5.5"x8.5". It has a hard cover that wraps around the spiral binding so that it isn't visible.I've found that the best way to stick photos to the pages are by using mounting stickers on the backs of the photos along with one-sided corners for reinforcement.I've bought a number of companion animal albums, and "Nine Lives" is by far the best I've found as of yet, despite its flaws. The canine version is "Dog Days: A Scrapbook for My Best Friend", by Kate Madsen.