Category: Goodreads Reviews

author: Karen Essex
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2010
rating: 2
read at: 2011/03/26
date added: 2011/04/02
shelves: history, horror, fiction
review:
An interesting concept for sure: the Dracula story as told by Mina, and of course everything is quite different from what one’s been led to expect. And some good sequences of writing. But holy cow melodrama & Mary Sue-ism! It was actually a pretty decent read for laying sick in bed, but I can think of better.

author: Gary Taubes
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2011/03/14
date added: 2011/03/21
shelves: didnt-finish, ebook, health, non-fiction, read-again, science, self-help
review:
Stupid library ebook time limits, also wish I could renew ebooks. IOW, I wasn’t able to finish this. Anyway, as for the book, as much as I read: fascinating stuff, especially on the hormonal aspect of weight gain and loss. Good reminder for me, too, after gradually gaining back some of the weight I lost a few years ago, of what I did that worked, and how to go back to that. (Salad & steak FTW.) Definitely want to read it again all the way through.

author: Gary Taubes
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2011/03/14
date added: 2011/03/21
shelves: health, non-fiction, science, self-help, ebook, read-again, didnt-finish
review:
Stupid library ebook time limits, also wish I could renew ebooks. IOW, I wasn’t able to finish this. Anyway, as for the book, as much as I read: fascinating stuff, especially on the hormonal aspect of weight gain and loss. Good reminder for me, too, after gradually gaining back some of the weight I lost a few years ago, of what I did that worked, and how to go back to that. (Salad & steak FTW.) Definitely want to read it again all the way through.

author: Gary Taubes
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2011/03/14
date added: 2011/03/21
shelves: health, non-fiction, science, self-help, ebook, read-again, didnt-finish
review:
Stupid library ebook time limits, also wish I could renew ebooks. IOW, I wasn’t able to finish this. Anyway, as for the book, as much as I read: fascinating stuff, especially on the hormonal aspect of weight gain and loss. Good reminder for me, too, after gradually gaining back some of the weight I lost a few years ago, of what I did that worked, and how to go back to that. (Salad & steak FTW.) Definitely want to read it again all the way through.

author: Gary Taubes
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2011/03/14
date added: 2011/03/21
shelves: health, non-fiction, science, self-help, ebook, read-again, didnt-finish
review:
Stupid library ebook time limits, also wish I could renew ebooks. IOW, I wasn’t able to finish this. Anyway, as for the book, as much as I read: fascinating stuff, especially on the hormonal aspect of weight gain and loss. Good reminder for me, too, after gradually gaining back some of the weight I lost a few years ago, of what I did that worked, and how to go back to that. (Salad & steak FTW.) Definitely want to read it again all the way through.

author: Kage Baker
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.32
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2011/03/17
date added: 2011/03/21
shelves: fiction, sci-fi, steampunk
review:
Disappointed, actually. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Kage Baker, but this one didn’t stand on its own as well as I would have liked. Great characterization & description, but very weak plot. Definitely side-story/back-story to the overall Company arc, where it seems like many of the other Company books stand entirely on their own.

author: Kage Baker
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2011/03/17
date added: 2011/03/21
shelves: fiction, sci-fi, steampunk
review:
Disappointed, actually. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Kage Baker, but this one didn’t stand on its own as well as I would have liked. Great characterization & description, but very weak plot. Definitely side-story/back-story to the overall Company arc, where it seems like many of the other Company books stand entirely on their own.

author: Vanessa Barrington
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2010
rating: 2
read at: 2011/02/17
date added: 2011/03/01
shelves: cookbook, ebook, non-fiction, read-again, wishlist
review:
I don’t the ebook format works all that great for cookbooks, at least not on my little phone. At least, it doesn’t lend itself to browsing. I did make — and enjoy! — one recipe, a noodle salad that made a good lunch.

author: Vanessa Barrington
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2010
rating: 2
read at: 2011/02/17
date added: 2011/03/01
shelves: cookbook, ebook, read-again, non-fiction
review:
I don’t the ebook format works all that great for cookbooks, at least not on my little phone. At least, it doesn’t lend itself to browsing. I did make — and enjoy! — one recipe, a noodle salad that made a good lunch.

author: Vanessa Barrington
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2010
rating: 2
read at: 2011/02/17
date added: 2011/03/01
shelves: cookbook, ebook, read-again, non-fiction
review:
I don’t the ebook format works all that great for cookbooks, at least not on my little phone. At least, it doesn’t lend itself to browsing. I did make — and enjoy! — one recipe, a noodle salad that made a good lunch.