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glitterkitter's review against another edition
3.0
As someone who has never slept well, I've kind of casually browsed a lot of stuff to do with sleep and healthy sleep and how to get more etc for many many years. This felt like it didn't tell me anything I hadn't already come across, but I guess it was a decent collection of a bunch of info all in one place. I also felt like it had a way heavier focus on children's sleep and as a result how to parent children in ways that encourage health sleep than I was expecting. Half of it felt almost like a parenting guidebook.
ashleylm's review against another edition
2.0
Not at all what I thought I'd be getting into.
It didn't really read as a diverting book about some aspect of science ... it was more of a cross between a manual for parents, and a synopsis of current (some non-confirmed) science experiments. It was also very, very dense, and as I plodded through the seemingly endless sections on sleep in babies, in toddlers, in youngsters, in teens, etc., I kept wondering when it would get good.
And then it basically ended, with 30% notes, etc., at the end.
(5* = amazing, terrific book, one of my all-time favourites, 4* = very good book, 3* = good book, but nothing to particularly rave about, 2* = disappointing book, and 1* = awful, just awful. As a statistician I know most books are 3s, but I am biased in my selection and end up mostly with 4s, thank goodness.)
It didn't really read as a diverting book about some aspect of science ... it was more of a cross between a manual for parents, and a synopsis of current (some non-confirmed) science experiments. It was also very, very dense, and as I plodded through the seemingly endless sections on sleep in babies, in toddlers, in youngsters, in teens, etc., I kept wondering when it would get good.
And then it basically ended, with 30% notes, etc., at the end.
(5* = amazing, terrific book, one of my all-time favourites, 4* = very good book, 3* = good book, but nothing to particularly rave about, 2* = disappointing book, and 1* = awful, just awful. As a statistician I know most books are 3s, but I am biased in my selection and end up mostly with 4s, thank goodness.)
sophie's review
3.0
As someone who has never slept well, I've kind of casually browsed a lot of stuff to do with sleep and healthy sleep and how to get more etc for many many years. This felt like it didn't tell me anything I hadn't already come across, but I guess it was a decent collection of a bunch of info all in one place. I also felt like it had a way heavier focus on children's sleep and as a result how to parent children in ways that encourage health sleep than I was expecting. Half of it felt almost like a parenting guidebook.
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