Quotes about other Vanity books The Barnes and Noble website: Imagine Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with a feline cast. No, it's more sophisticated than that. OK. Imagine Auntie Mame as a cat. That's closer to the level of hilarity." The Christian Bookstore website: "Vanity the Cat is a delight from the first page. . . By page seven, I was nearing a point of no return and could not stop laughing. . . . Either Peggy van Hulsteyn was a cat in her past life or this was defiantly written by Vanity the Cat herself." The Austin American Statesman: "Vanity casts her devastating feline eye on the excesses of Santa Fe Style with uproarious results." The Taos News: "In a wonderfully witty and original work, Peggy van Hulsteyn has created Diary of a Santa Fe Cat. Adding to the vivid writing style of van Hulsteyn, the illustrations were created by Jacquelyn Rudolph, a New Mexico artist." The Albuquerque Journal: "Gently satirical."