Category: Goodreads Reviews

author: Mark Bittman
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 2013/08/15
date added: 2013/09/03
shelves: cookbook, non-fiction, own
review:
Got from the library, made a couple of things, and it was so good that I went out and bought a copy. Have now finally made crispy breaded veggies that don’t suck. (The secret, as far as I can tell, is refrigerating after breading.) Fantastic quiche. Great pitas. Pretty sure a copy should come with every CSA subscription. (Setting “date finished” to make sure it shows up where I want in my reading history.)

author: Mark Bittman
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 2013/08/15
date added: 2013/09/03
shelves: cookbook, non-fiction, own
review:
Got from the library, made a couple of things, and it was so good that I went out and bought a copy. Have now finally made crispy breaded veggies that don’t suck. (The secret, as far as I can tell, is refrigerating after breading.) Fantastic quiche. Great pitas. Pretty sure a copy should come with every CSA subscription. (Setting “date finished” to make sure it shows up where I want in my reading history.)

author: Wendy Bernard
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2013/04/15
date added: 2013/06/24
shelves: wishlist, crafty, knitting, non-fiction
review:
Particularly liked the techniques for designing your own items: how much yarn is needed for a pair of gloves, etc.

Made two items: semi-improvisational fingerless mittens & a “bonnet”, both of which I like.

author: Wendy Bernard
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2013/04/15
date added: 2013/06/24
shelves: wishlist, crafty, knitting, non-fiction
review:
Particularly liked the techniques for designing your own items: how much yarn is needed for a pair of gloves, etc.

Made two items: semi-improvisational fingerless mittens & a “bonnet”, both of which I like.

author: Philip Schmidt
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2013/05/01
date added: 2013/06/24
shelves: gardening, non-fiction, wishlist, home-improvement, read-again
review:
Read date is approx. Some very cool designs in this book, I think it would be my preferred book for plans.

author: Philip Schmidt
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2013/05/01
date added: 2013/06/24
shelves: gardening, non-fiction, wishlist, home-improvement, read-again
review:
Read date is approx. Some very cool designs in this book, I think it would be my preferred book for plans.

author: Philip Schmidt
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2013/05/01
date added: 2013/06/24
shelves: gardening, non-fiction, wishlist, home-improvement, read-again
review:
Read date is approx. Some very cool designs in this book, I think it would be my preferred book for plans.

author: Michael Hastings
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2013/06/24
date added: 2013/06/24
shelves: autobiography, biography, history, non-fiction, politics
review:
Just finished reading and am still somewhat overwhelmed by a sense of despair. Which is to say that this was a really good book. The author did what I think is a very admirable thing: he took the access that he was given, and instead of using it to get more access, he actually shared what he saw. And put it into the context of things outside of those bubbles. Setting the ideology of the “COINdinistas” up against the reality of both on the ground and surveys like those done by RAND. (Look up “How Terrorist Groups End”, for example.) I haven’t been especially happy about the war in general, but this was…vivid and immediate.

(Minus one star for overly “Rolling Stone” style, which I suppose I ought to have been expecting.)

author: Michael Hastings
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2013/06/24
date added: 2013/06/24
shelves: autobiography, biography, history, non-fiction, politics
review:
Just finished reading and am still somewhat overwhelmed by a sense of despair. Which is to say that this was a really good book. The author did what I think is a very admirable thing: he took the access that he was given, and instead of using it to get more access, he actually shared what he saw. And put it into the context of things outside of those bubbles. Setting the ideology of the “COINdinistas” up against the reality of both on the ground and surveys like those done by RAND. (Look up “How Terrorist Groups End”, for example.) I haven’t been especially happy about the war in general, but this was…vivid and immediate.

(Minus one star for overly “Rolling Stone” style, which I suppose I ought to have been expecting.)

author: Michael Hastings
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2013/06/24
date added: 2013/06/24
shelves: autobiography, biography, history, non-fiction, politics
review:
Just finished reading and am still somewhat overwhelmed by a sense of despair. Which is to say that this was a really good book. The author did what I think is a very admirable thing: he took the access that he was given, and instead of using it to get more access, he actually shared what he saw. And put it into the context of things outside of those bubbles. Setting the ideology of the “COINdinistas” up against the reality of both on the ground and surveys like those done by RAND. (Look up “How Terrorist Groups End”, for example.) I haven’t been especially happy about the war in general, but this was…vivid and immediate.

(Minus one star for overly “Rolling Stone” style, which I suppose I ought to have been expecting.)