Month: February 2012

author: Jeff Warren
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2008/02/01
date added: 2012/02/22
shelves: autobiography, health, non-fiction, psychology, read-again, science
review:
Date read is a wild guess…I happened to remember this book after someone tweeted about first sleep/second sleep, then posted an Ask MetaFilter question because I couldn’t remember the name! http://ask.metafilter.com/208842/Look…

I do remember that I enjoyed it, and little bits of what I learned from it still filter into my head from time to time. (Ergo first/second sleep, which is something I learned about in that book. Very common before industrialization, people falling asleep at dark, waking for a while in the middle of the night, then sleeping again. Was totally normal, is almost forgotten today.) I’d sort of like to read it again.

author: Jeff Warren
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2008/02/01
date added: 2012/02/22
shelves: autobiography, health, non-fiction, psychology, read-again, science
review:
Date read is a wild guess…I happened to remember this book after someone tweeted about first sleep/second sleep, then posted an Ask MetaFilter question because I couldn’t remember the name! http://ask.metafilter.com/208842/Look…

I do remember that I enjoyed it, and little bits of what I learned from it still filter into my head from time to time. (Ergo first/second sleep, which is something I learned about in that book. Very common before industrialization, people falling asleep at dark, waking for a while in the middle of the night, then sleeping again. Was totally normal, is almost forgotten today.) I’d sort of like to read it again.

author: Walter Isaacson
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2012/01/12
date added: 2012/02/08
shelves: biography, non-fiction, read-again
review:
Putting this onto the “read” shelf because it’s obvious to me that I won’t get around to finishing/rereading for a while. In any case, I stand by all my earlier comments, and have made up my mind that Steve Jobs was a grade-A asshole. Genius-shmenius, doesn’t make up for anything as far as I can tell.

That being said, it was a solidly written book, definitely worth the time.

author: Walter Isaacson
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2012/01/12
date added: 2012/02/08
shelves: biography, non-fiction, read-again
review:
Putting this onto the “read” shelf because it’s obvious to me that I won’t get around to finishing/rereading for a while. In any case, I stand by all my earlier comments, and have made up my mind that Steve Jobs was a grade-A asshole. Genius-shmenius, doesn’t make up for anything as far as I can tell.

That being said, it was a solidly written book, definitely worth the time.

author: Michael Ruhlman
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2012/01/08
date added: 2012/02/08
shelves: cookbook, ebook, non-fiction, read-again
review:
Returned itself to the library before I finished. Some interesting ideas here, things I’d like to try in more detail sometime.

author: Michael Ruhlman
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2012/01/08
date added: 2012/02/08
shelves: cookbook, ebook, non-fiction, read-again
review:
Returned itself to the library before I finished. Some interesting ideas here, things I’d like to try in more detail sometime.

author: Michael Ruhlman
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2012/01/08
date added: 2012/02/08
shelves: cookbook, ebook, non-fiction, read-again
review:
Returned itself to the library before I finished. Some interesting ideas here, things I’d like to try in more detail sometime.

author: Michael Ruhlman
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2012/01/08
date added: 2012/02/08
shelves: cookbook, ebook, non-fiction, read-again
review:
Returned itself to the library before I finished. Some interesting ideas here, things I’d like to try in more detail sometime.