Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere; Evidence of Harm; Dewey Decimal System of Love

"Neil Gaiman's Everywhere" by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry is the graphic novel version of Neil's book, because I'm too lazy to read anything without pictures. No, I just felt like reading a comic book--excuse me, graphic novel. It was actually very well written and the illustrations were very vibrant.
"Evidence of Harm" by David Kirby chronicled the shockingly overwhelming evidence that mercury in vaccines are responsible for the climbing autism rates in this country. Even though the vaccines are supposed to be mercury free now, it's a damn crying shame that government and medical officials ignored the evidence for so long. Even if they didn't believe the vaccines were responsible for autism, they should have at least realized something had to be causing the rising rates of diagnosis, and I don't buy the better diagnosis techniques. If that were the case, then where are all the adults who were never diagnosed properly today? I don't see a lot of obviously autistic adults wandering around.
"Dewey Decimal System of Love" by Josephine Carr was a fun, quick little read recommended to me by Christine, one of the librarians I work with. Ally, a 40 year old spinster librarian suddenly develops a crazy mad crush on the conductor of a local orchestra who turns out to be a thief who specializes in stealing rare musical scores and shipping them back to his native Finland. Some of the things in the book reminded me of the Annoyed Librarian, whose blog I read religiously, like the whole martini thing. I wonder which came first?

Little Bee; Texasville; A Child's Journey Out of Autism

"Little Bee" by Chris Cleave was not nearly as good as all the blogs led me to believe. I'm seriously going to stop taking my fellow librarian's advice when it comes to reading materials. I thought it was boring and uninspired.
So for laughs I reread "Texasville" by Larry McMurtry for the umpteenth time. It never fails to cheer me up.
"A Child's Journey Out of Autism" by Leeann Whiffen was absolutely amazing. It reminded my of Jenny McCarthy's "Mother Warriors" and "Louder Than Words", which were so inspiring. My pet cause is autism, and I would love to see this epidemic come to end, to see all the children affected rescued as successfully as Whiffen's son Clay and Jenny's son Evan. Very inspiring and touching.

Here's the Story; The $trip

"Here's the Story" by Maureen McCormick chronicled her life on the "Brady Bunch" (my all-time favorite TV show as a kid--I used to go around telling people I played Cindy when I was six or so), her drug addiction, her marriage, and the death of her mom. I was really hoping for more Brady dish, like Barry Williams' book "Growing Up Brady", which I read years ago. It was good, just not what I wanted.
"The $trip" by E. Duke Vincent wasn't very good. Fiction set in Las Vegas in 1980, the characters were stereotypical and one dimensional and the plot was thin at best. I found myself struggling to get through it, and it was a very short book. Once again, just because it's set in Vegas doesn't mean it's awesome, unfortunately.

Shadow Kiss

Book three of the Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead was by far the best one yet. Rose and Lissa's school is attacked, and Rose has to battle more Strigoi. The scenes between Rose and Dimitri were great, and even though I saw the ending coming a mile away (which is unusual for me, I'm so clueless) it was still great. Can't wait for book four.

Lethal Legacy; Havana Nocturne

Linda Fairstein's latest, "Lethal Legacy", was a fantastic mystery involving libraries and rare books. She even dedicated it to librarians (thanks, Linda!). I really love her books. Alex Cooper, one of her main characters, is so cool. This one involved a wealthy family, the Hunts, who are chasing all over for pieces of a one of a kind map that's been hidden in various rare books. People are getting killed over this map. Alex manages to catch the killer and find the pieces of the map with the help of some wise librarians. Just like in real life :-)
"Havana Nocturne" by T.J. English chronicled the story of how the Mob controlled Havana because the corrupt government that Batista was in charge of let them. It was interesting, just not as interesting as I'd hoped. I guess I really wanted to know more about Fidel Castro and the rebels and how they ran Batista out of Cuba. This was all pretty much stuff I already knew or could have guessed.