Other Peoples Dirt
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Amazon.com Review
Housecleaner extraordinaire Louise Rafkin reads her own work as efficiently as she cleans bathtubs and snoops through the letter pile. Rafkin's voice is pleasantly modulated and well suited to her dry humor in Other People's Dirt, a parallel tale of her cleaning habits and socio-spiritual explorations. Vacuum-cleaner sound effects demarcate chapters in this nearly unabridged version, whose brief chapters are punchy and well suited to audio. (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) --Barrie Trinkle --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
From AudioFile
Louise Rafkin's conversational memoir is a deeply textured and enriching look at the world of the housecleaner. Unassuming and prim, she expostulates brightly, sometimes plaintive, other times joking, but always moving forward with the speed and efficiency of a polishing professional. Her voice is musical, offering the maturity of a woman in her thirties and the impishness of youth. The cleaner's life is cyclical and episodic. Each new job offers a slightly different perspective on the same set of chores. So it is that she tackles such disparate topics as housecleaning as an erotic fetish, and a Japanese sect that cleans houses as part of its religion. The cover art features an upright mop held like a flag in a parade, quite apropos for this celebration of the everyday ceremony of cleaning. After listening, I surprised my wife by scrubbing the bathroom. J.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
Housecleaner extraordinaire Louise Rafkin reads her own work as efficiently as she cleans bathtubs and snoops through the letter pile. Rafkin's voice is pleasantly modulated and well suited to her dry humor in Other People's Dirt, a parallel tale of her cleaning habits and socio-spiritual explorations. Vacuum-cleaner sound effects demarcate chapters in this nearly unabridged version, whose brief chapters are punchy and well suited to audio. (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) --Barrie Trinkle --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
From AudioFile
Louise Rafkin's conversational memoir is a deeply textured and enriching look at the world of the housecleaner. Unassuming and prim, she expostulates brightly, sometimes plaintive, other times joking, but always moving forward with the speed and efficiency of a polishing professional. Her voice is musical, offering the maturity of a woman in her thirties and the impishness of youth. The cleaner's life is cyclical and episodic. Each new job offers a slightly different perspective on the same set of chores. So it is that she tackles such disparate topics as housecleaning as an erotic fetish, and a Japanese sect that cleans houses as part of its religion. The cover art features an upright mop held like a flag in a parade, quite apropos for this celebration of the everyday ceremony of cleaning. After listening, I surprised my wife by scrubbing the bathroom. J.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
This is going in the cassette audio book ray originating from KateKintail. Hope it has wonderful travels!
This is going in the cassette audio book ray originating from KateKintail. Hope it has wonderful travels!
Removed from the bookbox. Looking forward to "reading".
I thought an update might be welcomed on this book. I just finished a book on tape and thoguht I would listen to this one while I continue a very deep cleaning of the house I rent.
So far the essays have been interesting and a little thought provoking.
I am on side 2 of tape 1. More when I finish
So far the essays have been interesting and a little thought provoking.
I am on side 2 of tape 1. More when I finish
Not totally what I expected but an interesting listen.
I found the author's blase attitude to her brother being a drug dealer hard to take. I also question my comfort level with hiring her.
Some funny and some touching.
I found the author's blase attitude to her brother being a drug dealer hard to take. I also question my comfort level with hiring her.
Some funny and some touching.
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
released to MyssCyn's US Audio Bookbox (mostly tapes)
released to MyssCyn's US Audio Bookbox (mostly tapes)
This came to me in my audio bookbox. I've read it before so it will continue its journey.
From MyssCyn's audio tape book box.
In each of the essays, the author looks at the adventure of cleaning other people's homes from a different perspective.
I agree with NMReader, I also question my comfort level with hiring her, although I'm sure she would be way better than the cleaners that my husband hired once, I guess, from a similar company, I guess, as she describes in one of her essays. Although she does mention a distaste for - I think she calls them dental implements. They had a disregard for them. If I hadn't observed (another thing she doesn't like), they would have accidentally thrown my husband's mouthguard in the trash without even noticing. What are you supposed to do? Take all the stuff away that she doesn't like? That's one of the most annoying parts of cleaning, having to move stuff. What do I hire a cleaner for if I have to do that myself?
I agree with NMReader, I also question my comfort level with hiring her, although I'm sure she would be way better than the cleaners that my husband hired once, I guess, from a similar company, I guess, as she describes in one of her essays. Although she does mention a distaste for - I think she calls them dental implements. They had a disregard for them. If I hadn't observed (another thing she doesn't like), they would have accidentally thrown my husband's mouthguard in the trash without even noticing. What are you supposed to do? Take all the stuff away that she doesn't like? That's one of the most annoying parts of cleaning, having to move stuff. What do I hire a cleaner for if I have to do that myself?
2015 Birthday Group
Happy birthday!
I hope you like this book.
Happy birthday!
I hope you like this book.
Journal Entry 12 by hyphen8 at Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Friday, February 12, 2016
Released 8 yrs ago (2/13/2016 UTC) at Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
To be released during the Great Aloha Run Expo, February 12-14. We'll see if it gets claimed, or if it comes back home again.
Wild released for AlterEgoZoe's Leap into the Wild Challenge.
(Over the course of three days, I took 6 CD audiobooks, 18 cassette audiobooks, and 45 other books to the Great Aloha Run Health & Fitness Expo and left them at the end of the table in our booth. At the end of the last day, the only things left were 3 of the cassette audiobooks. Now let's see if I get any journal entries!)
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Wild released for AlterEgoZoe's Leap into the Wild Challenge.
(Over the course of three days, I took 6 CD audiobooks, 18 cassette audiobooks, and 45 other books to the Great Aloha Run Health & Fitness Expo and left them at the end of the table in our booth. At the end of the last day, the only things left were 3 of the cassette audiobooks. Now let's see if I get any journal entries!)
I'm so glad you've found this book!
Won't you please make a journal entry to let the book's previous readers know that it's safely in your hands? How did you find it? What did you think of it? What are you going to do with it next?
It's now your book, for you to do with as you please: keep it, pass it to a friend, or maybe even leave it where someone else can find it!
If you've ever wondered where your books go after they leave your hands, join BookCrossing and you may find out: you'll be able to follow the further adventures of your books as new readers make journal entries - sometimes from surprisingly far-flung locations.
(Think of it like Where's George for books...or a little like geocaching - you can follow the book's journey every time someone makes a new entry. Some BookCrossers even leave books *in* geocaches!)
BookCrossing: making the whole world a library!