Compulsive checking can include compulsively checking items such as locks, switches, and appliances. British widowed woman who drinks excessively and lies compulsively, assumes the role of housekeeper. The thermos is imbued with character, persistently demanding Larkin's attention, who submits to it compulsively. A workaholic is a person who works compulsively. A chocoholic is a person who craves or compulsively consumes chocolate. Insightful, entertaining, and compulsively readable. Ken is overweight, eats, smokes and drinks compulsively and seems very unhappy. The novel was characterized as "fun and compulsively readable" and thoughtful. Benton Fraser is the archetypal Mountie&colon; dogged, polite, and compulsively truthful. The "San Francisco Chronicle" critiqued it as "a gruesome but compulsively readable tale, ultimately redemptive". Nadezhda von Meck was always compulsively busy. Nicotine is often used compulsively, and dependence can develop within days. The Edwards Scale is another approach which measures the tendency to compulsively buy. This chapter covers the mental disorders that afflict those who always lie, compulsively so. Paul Ennis wrote in "NOW" that it was "compulsively watchable".