Author: Elaine

author: Randy O. Frost
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2011/06/30
date added: 2011/07/08
shelves: ebook, psychology, non-fiction, read-again, favorites
review:
I’ve been done with this for at least a week, maybe two, but I’ve been procrastinating writing my review. (So much so that the book has expired out of Overdrive, which means I lost all my bookmarks. Argh.) In any case, for someone with a family history of hoarding — particularly my paternal grandmother — and a personal tendency that way, this was fascinating, illuminating, and scary. Very compassionate, deals less with the cases that end up on TV than the otherwise normal-seeming people who have houses crammed with things, and the various psychological issues involved. I feel like I need to read it again and make notes. (FWIW, I think I have a lot of digital hoarding issues, too; bookmarks that will never be read, recipes that will never be made, etc., etc.) Very highly recommended.

author: Randy O. Frost
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2011/06/30
date added: 2011/07/08
shelves: ebook, psychology, non-fiction, read-again, favorites
review:
I’ve been done with this for at least a week, maybe two, but I’ve been procrastinating writing my review. (So much so that the book has expired out of Overdrive, which means I lost all my bookmarks. Argh.) In any case, for someone with a family history of hoarding — particularly my paternal grandmother — and a personal tendency that way, this was fascinating, illuminating, and scary. Very compassionate, deals less with the cases that end up on TV than the otherwise normal-seeming people who have houses crammed with things, and the various psychological issues involved. I feel like I need to read it again and make notes. (FWIW, I think I have a lot of digital hoarding issues, too; bookmarks that will never be read, recipes that will never be made, etc., etc.) Very highly recommended.

author: Randy O. Frost
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2011/06/30
date added: 2011/07/08
shelves: ebook, non-fiction, psychology, read-again, wishlist
review:
I’ve been done with this for at least a week, maybe two, but I’ve been procrastinating writing my review. (So much so that the book has expired out of Overdrive, which means I lost all my bookmarks. Argh.) In any case, for someone with a family history of hoarding — particularly my paternal grandmother — and a personal tendency that way, this was fascinating, illuminating, and scary. Very compassionate, deals less with the cases that end up on TV than the otherwise normal-seeming people who have houses crammed with things, and the various psychological issues involved. I feel like I need to read it again and make notes. (FWIW, I think I have a lot of digital hoarding issues, too; bookmarks that will never be read, recipes that will never be made, etc., etc.) Very highly recommended.

author: Bill Bryson
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2011/07/05
date added: 2011/07/08
shelves: ebook, history, non-fiction
review:
I wanted this to be better than it was. Great anecdotes, but essentially all anecdote, and very much fixated on Victorian England. Which I suppose makes sense since he was riffing on an 1851 house, but still somewhat disappointing. Gave it an extra star because it was clever and entertaining.

author: Bill Bryson
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2011/07/05
date added: 2011/07/08
shelves: ebook, history, non-fiction
review:
I wanted this to be better than it was. Great anecdotes, but essentially all anecdote, and very much fixated on Victorian England. Which I suppose makes sense since he was riffing on an 1851 house, but still somewhat disappointing. Gave it an extra star because it was clever and entertaining.

author: Bill Bryson
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2011/07/05
date added: 2011/07/08
shelves: ebook, history, non-fiction
review:
I wanted this to be better than it was. Great anecdotes, but essentially all anecdote, and very much fixated on Victorian England. Which I suppose makes sense since he was riffing on an 1851 house, but still somewhat disappointing. Gave it an extra star because it was clever and entertaining.

author: Bill Bryson
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2011/07/05
date added: 2011/07/08
shelves: ebook, history, non-fiction
review:
I wanted this to be better than it was. Great anecdotes, but essentially all anecdote, and very much fixated on Victorian England. Which I suppose makes sense since he was riffing on an 1851 house, but still somewhat disappointing. Gave it an extra star because it was clever and entertaining.

author: David Berlinski
name: Elaine
average rating: 2.50
book published: 2011
rating: 2
read at: 2011/07/03
date added: 2011/07/08
shelves: didnt-finish, ebook, history, non-fiction, science
review:
meh. couldn’t get into it.