Writing – Page 33 – elaine nelson, aka epersonae

3/21/2011

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

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.

3/21/2011

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

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.

3/21/2011

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

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.

3/21/2011

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

3/21/2011

Not Less Than Gods

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.

3/21/2011

Not Less Than Gods

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.

3/18/2011

Ideas of March

So I’ve been catching up on my blog reading lately — Google Reader on Android FTW! — and I ran across two identically-titled posts by Drew McClellan and Chris Shiflett about creating a blogging revival.

Write a post called Ideas of March.
List some of the reasons you like blogs.
Pledge to blog more the rest of the month.
Share your thoughts on Twitter with the #ideasofmarch hashtag.

And here I am, with my Ideas of March post.

Why blogs? I love Twitter, but sometimes you need a little extra space to express ideas properly. A few times in the last year or so, I’ve realized after a couple of tweets that I need full sentences, paragraphs, even, and I’ve come back here to expand. (Or to my new web-dev-only blog.)

Maybe there’s a bit of nostalgia, too: 10 years ago next month, I started blogging; on a different domain, but I still think of it as all the same blog. In the early ’00s, blogs were a critical learning resource and social space for me. I would not be where I am, professionally (wherever the hell that is), without blogs.

Ah, I’m not really expressing what I’m feeling, which given the topic strikes me as terribly funny.

Anyway: blogs are great. I like to write in my blog; I like to read what you write in your blog. We should do more of that.

3/1/2011

D.I.Y. Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food from Scratch

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.

3/1/2011

D.I.Y. Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food from Scratch

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.

3/1/2011

D.I.Y. Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food from Scratch

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.