author: Sara Benincasa
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2016/09/08
date added: 2016/09/16
shelves: fiction, kid-lit
review:
Fun quirky story, enjoyed it quite a bit. (Basically devoured the first quarter of the book while sitting in a coffeeshop.)
The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.52
book published: 1937
rating: 4
read at: 2011/04/26
date added: 2020/02/01
shelves: fantasy, fiction
review:
So yeah, I’m 36 years old, have read LoTR a couple of times, seen the movies a bunch, played lots of D&D, and somehow never got around to reading The Hobbit. I did see the movie once, at the library when I was a little kid, and I think one more time in the last decade or so.
It’s a damn clever story; the locales are quite vivid, and I’m intrigued by the characters who weren’t in LoTR. (Beorn in particular.)
I do wish I hadn’t gotten the annotated version, though. Fascinating stuff, some of it, but also terribly distracting. And I’m still not so much for Tolkien’s poetry.
All in all, I’m glad I finally got around to it.
2-at-a-Time Socks: Revealed Inside. . . The Secret of Knitting Two at Once on One Circular Needle Works for any Sock Pattern!
author: Melissa Morgan-Oakes
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 2013/08/01
date added: 2016/03/17
shelves: crafty, knitting, non-fiction, wishlist, read-again
review:
My group used (mostly) the techniques in this book for a sock knit-along project. Didn’t actually knit any of the patterns in the book, although some looked intriguing.
Poem for Bowie
Now I feel the edge of tears but not quite
Something that feels not like grief
But like the ringing of a great church bell
Reverberating through the whole body
A mountain moved and an empty vista
Almost crying, three times:
A movie picked for fun and glamour
Except it was really about death and family
A podcast about comic books
And that one character who stays dead
Then the last song of a concert movie
“Give me your hands — because you’re wonderful”
The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
author: Deborah Blum
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2015/11/07
shelves: non-fiction, crime, ebook, biography, history, science
review:
Saw the PBS show about this last week, then happened to spot the ebook while looking in the library for airplane reading. Glad I checked it out. Fascinating blend of history, true crime, and science, plus a glimpse of the New York of my grandparents’ youth.
The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
author: Deborah Blum
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2015/11/07
shelves: non-fiction, crime, ebook, biography, history, science
review:
Saw the PBS show about this last week, then happened to spot the ebook while looking in the library for airplane reading. Glad I checked it out. Fascinating blend of history, true crime, and science, plus a glimpse of the New York of my grandparents’ youth.
Nimona
author: Noelle Stevenson
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2015/08/21
date added: 2015/09/01
shelves: fantasy, fiction, graphic-novel, kid-lit
review:
Cute, funny, and thoughtful. Plays with the tropes.
Nimona
author: Noelle Stevenson
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2015/08/21
date added: 2015/09/01
shelves: fantasy, fiction, graphic-novel, kid-lit
review:
Cute, funny, and thoughtful. Plays with the tropes.
Never Jam Today
author: Carole Bolton
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1963
rating: 4
read at: 1991/01/01
date added: 2015/08/26
shelves: fiction, history
review:
It’s been literally decades since I read this book, but it made all sorts of odd impacts on me. See also this sequence of tweets: https://twitter.com/epersonae/status/…
Never Jam Today
author: Carole Bolton
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1963
rating: 4
read at: 1991/01/01
date added: 2015/08/26
shelves: fiction, history
review:
It’s been literally decades since I read this book, but it made all sorts of odd impacts on me. See also this sequence of tweets: https://twitter.com/epersonae/status/…