Category: Goodreads Reviews

author: Mallory Ortberg
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2014/12/20
date added: 2014/12/29
shelves: humor, non-fiction
review:
I wanted to like this so much more than I actually did. Maybe it’s better read a couple at a time over the course of a few months. (Like a website, even.) Maybe I just don’t know some of the text she’s parodying well enough. (Altho I’ve read no Descartes and that one made me laugh most of all!) It was funny, and some of it was LOL/giggly funny. But some of it fell really flat, not that I hated it, but that it didn’t hit for me.

(But really, what I want is a gorgeous coffeetable book of Women in Western Art pieces.)

author: Mallory Ortberg
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2014/12/20
date added: 2014/12/29
shelves: humor, non-fiction
review:
I wanted to like this so much more than I actually did. Maybe it’s better read a couple at a time over the course of a few months. (Like a website, even.) Maybe I just don’t know some of the text she’s parodying well enough. (Altho I’ve read no Descartes and that one made me laugh most of all!) It was funny, and some of it was LOL/giggly funny. But some of it fell really flat, not that I hated it, but that it didn’t hit for me.

(But really, what I want is a gorgeous coffeetable book of Women in Western Art pieces.)

author: Sachiko Umoto
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2014/10/19
date added: 2014/10/20
shelves: art, kid-lit, non-fiction, wishlist
review:
Incredibly adorable art instruction. Step-by-step techniques for drawing cute critters.

author: Sachiko Umoto
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2014/10/19
date added: 2014/10/20
shelves: art, kid-lit, non-fiction, wishlist
review:
Incredibly adorable art instruction. Step-by-step techniques for drawing cute critters.

author: Sachiko Umoto
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2014/10/19
date added: 2014/10/20
shelves: art, kid-lit, non-fiction, wishlist
review:
Incredibly adorable art instruction. Step-by-step techniques for drawing cute critters.

author: Sachiko Umoto
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2014/10/19
date added: 2014/10/20
shelves: art, kid-lit, non-fiction, wishlist
review:
Incredibly adorable art instruction. Step-by-step techniques for drawing cute critters.

author: Simon Akeroyd
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2014/05/03
shelves: gardening, non-fiction, wishlist
review:

author: Simon Akeroyd
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2014/05/03
shelves: gardening, non-fiction, wishlist
review:

author: Simon Akeroyd
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2014/05/03
shelves: gardening, non-fiction, wishlist
review:

author: Jonathan L. Howard
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2010/08/15
date added: 2014/04/14
shelves: fiction, horror, fantasy
review:
Weird and entertaining. (Weirdly entertaining?) Read mostly over the course of a day sitting out at the river!