Category: Writing

author: Clint McElroy
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2018/11/23
shelves: d-and-d, fantasy, favorites, fiction, graphic-novel, own
review:
Just happened to see this while scrolling through my “to-read” list — and apparently I’m so bad at keeping up my goodreads reviews that I never posted that I did in fact get, read, and love the TAZ graphic novel. (the first TAZ graphic novel, what?!)

It’s a delightful adaptation that keeps the meta-fictional qualities that I love about this show and the personalities of the characters as well, while streamlining what is arguably the roughest and most awkward of the arcs. Carey Pietch’s art is charming and expressive, and her Madame Director is the [static noise] of my heart. The little details from later in the show are a real treat, too. (Miller Enterprises! Brad Bradson! Carey Fangbattle!)

As a mega-fan, it’s strange and somewhat disappointing to run across all the IP-based name changes, but such is life under capitalism.

And honestly, writing this makes me want to read it again (and to finally get around to putting up the B&N special edition poster).

author: Erik Larson
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2018/09/22
shelves: history, non-fiction, ebook
review:
Covered the first year of their lives in Berlin in great detail, but felt odd how quickly he glossed over the rest of their time (3 more years?).

author: Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.16
book published:
rating: 4
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date added: 2018/05/07
shelves: health, non-fiction, science, self-help
review:
A fairly thorough look at issues around back pain, mostly through the lens of the author’s experience. I do have something of a class critique, that I’m not quite sure how to formulate? It feels judgy when she moves outside of her own sphere of upper-middle-class professionals. But there are some specific things in part two that I might actually look into myself. (I’ve had pretty good results with the McKenzie method, FWIW.)

author: Hope Nicholson
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2017/06/04
date added: 2017/06/10
shelves: art, autobiography, graphic-novel, non-fiction
review:

author: Hope Nicholson
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2017/06/04
date added: 2017/06/10
shelves: art, autobiography, graphic-novel, non-fiction
review:

author: Isabel Greenberg
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2017/06/07
date added: 2017/06/10
shelves: fiction, graphic-novel
review:

author: Isabel Greenberg
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2017/06/07
date added: 2017/06/10
shelves: fiction, graphic-novel
review:

author: Richard Wiseman
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2011/08/10
date added: 2017/03/06
shelves: ebook, non-fiction, own, psychology, read-again, self-help, favorites
review:
Started reading in ebook, and enjoyed it so much that I actually bought a copy. (At Borders in downtown Seattle at 30% off, FWIW.) Condenses lots and lots of psychology research that I’ve read elsewhere combined with plenty that was new to me. For the practical person, includes exercises, quizzes, tips…which was why I wanted a copy, since those bits were tough to read on my phone, and I wanted to write in the margins! A quick read in an engaging tone. Each chapter covers a different area of human psychology (motivation, relationships, happiness, etc), looks at the most current research on what works and doesn’t, and then makes specific recommendations for how to use that research in your own life. Liked it a lot, planning to reread it, probably fairly regularly.

author: N.K. Jemisin
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2015/10/15
date added: 2017/01/24
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author: N.K. Jemisin
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2015/10/15
date added: 2017/01/24
shelves:
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