Category: Writing

author: John Scalzi
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2012/04/21
date added: 2013/01/21
shelves: ebook, fiction, own, sci-fi
review:
Don’t remember much, since I’m writing this review 9 months after reading it — but I do remember it was very engaging and CREEPY.

author: John Scalzi
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2012/04/21
date added: 2013/01/21
shelves: ebook, fiction, own, sci-fi
review:
Don’t remember much, since I’m writing this review 9 months after reading it — but I do remember it was very engaging and CREEPY.

author: Sarai Mitnick
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at: 2012/07/07
date added: 2013/01/21
shelves: crafty, didnt-finish, non-fiction, read-again
review:
I will have to read this again when I actually know how to sew. Totally overwhelming for someone who knows nothing about sewing.

author: Sarai Mitnick
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at: 2012/07/07
date added: 2013/01/21
shelves: crafty, didnt-finish, non-fiction, read-again
review:
I will have to read this again when I actually know how to sew. Totally overwhelming for someone who knows nothing about sewing.

author: Amy Shojai
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2012/03/21
date added: 2013/01/21
shelves: cats, non-fiction
review:
(it looks like most of the books I read in 2012 I left as “currently reading” – so I’m going to be writing a series of very thin reviews.)

Got this from the library right after we found out that Sasha had kidney failure. And it really helped me cope in those first few weeks when I was freaking out and didn’t know what to do. Good tips about handling subcutaneous injections, IIRC.

(Sasha died at the end of September, after a mostly good spring and summer, aged approx 15 years.)

author: Amy Shojai
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2012/03/21
date added: 2013/01/21
shelves: cats, non-fiction
review:
(it looks like most of the books I read in 2012 I left as “currently reading” – so I’m going to be writing a series of very thin reviews.)

Got this from the library right after we found out that Sasha had kidney failure. And it really helped me cope in those first few weeks when I was freaking out and didn’t know what to do. Good tips about handling subcutaneous injections, IIRC.

(Sasha died at the end of September, after a mostly good spring and summer, aged approx 15 years.)

author: Amy Shojai
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2012/03/21
date added: 2013/01/21
shelves: cats, non-fiction
review:
(it looks like most of the books I read in 2012 I left as “currently reading” – so I’m going to be writing a series of very thin reviews.)

Got this from the library right after we found out that Sasha had kidney failure. And it really helped me cope in those first few weeks when I was freaking out and didn’t know what to do. Good tips about handling subcutaneous injections, IIRC.

(Sasha died at the end of September, after a mostly good spring and summer, aged approx 15 years.)

author: Scott Berkun
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2012/12/16
date added: 2012/12/16
shelves: non-fiction, self-help, philosophy
review:
Took me forever to finish – I started not long after downloading, which would’ve been sometime in early 2012, but didn’t get back to it until today. But then I finished it in a single evening. An interesting compilation of bits of philosophy and psychology, some of which I’d already read on the blog. Gave me things to think about.

author: Scott Berkun
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2012/12/16
date added: 2012/12/16
shelves: non-fiction, self-help, philosophy
review:
Took me forever to finish – I started not long after downloading, which would’ve been sometime in early 2012, but didn’t get back to it until today. But then I finished it in a single evening. An interesting compilation of bits of philosophy and psychology, some of which I’d already read on the blog. Gave me things to think about.

author: Roy F. Baumeister
name: Elaine
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2012/11/10
date added: 2012/11/12
shelves: non-fiction, psychology, read-again
review:
I like what I read, but hilariously enough, I had a hard time getting myself to finish. I think because it touched some raw nerves, and I would’ve rather been knitting.