Category: Writing

author: Kay Kenyon
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2011/05/12
date added: 2015/01/20
shelves: fiction, sci-fi
review:
It took me a while to get into this one; I’m not sure how much was the break between volumes, how much was the feeling of resolution at the end of volume three, and how much was the sheer complicatedness of the story. But once I did get into it, I couldn’t put it down! Compelling and complex story, with interesting growth in all the main characters. I would have wished for a bit more in our world, but other than that it was fantastic.

author: Kay Kenyon
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2011/04/18
date added: 2015/01/20
shelves: fiction, sci-fi
review:
The story keeps building! Really enjoyed it.

author: Donald A. Norman
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1988
rating: 4
read at: 2014/11/15
date added: 2014/12/29
shelves: non-fiction, psychology, technology, read-again, wishlist
review:
Wanted to finish. Couldn’t finish in time to take it back. Good stuff, and should be on any designer/developer’s bookshelf. But a little dry for what I was in the mood for at the time. I’ll finish it one of these days.

author: Donald A. Norman
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1988
rating: 4
read at: 2014/11/15
date added: 2014/12/29
shelves: non-fiction, psychology, technology, read-again, wishlist
review:
Wanted to finish. Couldn’t finish in time to take it back. Good stuff, and should be on any designer/developer’s bookshelf. But a little dry for what I was in the mood for at the time. I’ll finish it one of these days.

author: Donald A. Norman
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1988
rating: 4
read at: 2014/11/15
date added: 2014/12/29
shelves: non-fiction, psychology, technology, read-again, wishlist
review:
Wanted to finish. Couldn’t finish in time to take it back. Good stuff, and should be on any designer/developer’s bookshelf. But a little dry for what I was in the mood for at the time. I’ll finish it one of these days.

author: Lawrence Wright
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2014/11/29
date added: 2014/12/29
shelves: non-fiction, biography, history, religion, sci-fi, ebook
review:
Just when you thought it wasn’t going to get any weirder, it DOES. There’s so much fascinating bonkers stuff in this, I can’t even. Just read it.

author: Lawrence Wright
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2014/11/29
date added: 2014/12/29
shelves: non-fiction, biography, history, religion, sci-fi, ebook
review:
Just when you thought it wasn’t going to get any weirder, it DOES. There’s so much fascinating bonkers stuff in this, I can’t even. Just read it.

author: Rebecca Skloot
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2014/12/20
date added: 2014/12/29
shelves: biography, ebook, health, history, non-fiction, own, sociology, science
review:
Fantastic! Fascinating mix of personal, scientific, and historical dramas.

author: Rebecca Skloot
name: Elaine
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2014/12/20
date added: 2014/12/29
shelves: biography, ebook, health, history, non-fiction, own, sociology, science
review:
Fantastic! Fascinating mix of personal, scientific, and historical dramas.

author: Mallory Ortberg
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.81
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.)