Category: Goodreads Reviews

author: Michael Specter
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2009/11/23
date added: 2009/12/07
shelves: environmentalism, health, non-fiction, politics, psychology, science, technology
review:
Interesting review of aspects of modern society where emotional reactions and political positions overwhelm scientific thinking. Mostly focuses on the anti-vaccine nutters and organic food (and its problems for feeding larger numbers of people). Not in agreement with everything he has to say, and the end trails off awkwardly, but good reading.

author: David Byrne
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2009/11/23
date added: 2009/12/07
shelves: autobiography, bicycling, non-fiction, sociology, urban-studies
review:
A curious meandering travelogue, focused around Byrne’s travels by bicycle in a variety of cities around the world, finishing up in his adopted hometown of NYC. Very thoughtful, great photos, and the binding is surprisingly pleasurable. (no jacket!)

author: Sunset Books
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2009/10/19
date added: 2009/11/19
shelves: home-improvement, non-fiction
review:
Sunset is putting out some fantastic home-improvement books these days! Great photos, clear details. Am, so help me, looking forward to building stuff.

author: Phil Schmidt
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2009/11/05
date added: 2009/11/19
shelves: home-improvement, non-fiction, wishlist
review:
Has directions for building a greenhouse kit that we own!

author: Robert G. Kaiser
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2009
rating: 1
read at: 2009/10/19
date added: 2009/11/19
shelves: economics, history, non-fiction, politics
review:
Just couldn’t get into it. I’m fascinated by the topic, but this treatment was WAY too inside-baseball.

author: Robert Hurst
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2009/10/19
date added: 2009/11/19
shelves: bicycling, non-fiction, politics, urban-studies
review:
Not anything especially new to me, but a good read nonetheless.

author: Lynn Hudson Parsons
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2009/09/30
date added: 2009/11/19
shelves: biography, history, non-fiction, politics
review:
Fascinating stuff…once again I find myself musing that perhaps we should’ve just let the South go.

author: Allison Hoover Bartlett
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2009/11/17
date added: 2009/11/19
shelves: biography, crime, non-fiction, psychology
review:

author: Jane Lindskold
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2009/11/01
date added: 2009/11/19
shelves: fantasy, fiction
review:
Great follow-up, can’t wait to see what comes next!

author: Jane Lindskold
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 2009/10/19
date added: 2009/11/19
shelves: fantasy, fiction
review:
Really delightful.