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Born on a Blue Day Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant This was a fascinating story of an autistic savant who is also gay and has synesthesia. You think your life is complicated?

The Wordy Shipmates
I adore Sarah Vowell and this was a really good history lesson about the Puritans. Really enjoyable.

The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell's hypothesis of how epidemics start, and not only disease epidemics, but social epidemics, as well. I really liked it.

#25, #26, #27 ]]> <![CDATA[Laurie is on page 4 of Looking for Calvin a... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79076628 Laurie is on page 4 of 247 of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip ]]> <![CDATA[Laurie added 'Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79076628 Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip (Hardcover) by Nevin Martell
bookshelves: biography, cartoons, currently-reading
]]> <![CDATA[Laurie added 'The Widow's Club']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79082092 to: The Widow's Club (Mass Market Paperback) by Dorothy Cannell
bookshelves: fiction, mystery
]]> <![CDATA[Laurie added 'The Tipping Point']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48316896 to: The Tipping Point (Paperback) by Malcolm Gladwell
bookshelves: non-fiction, psych-soc
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Laurie added a quote:
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." — Benjamin Franklin
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bookshelves: autism, book-club, glbtq, memoir, non-fiction
]]> <![CDATA[Laurie added 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78037475 The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Paperback) by Erik Larson
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Laurie added 'The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77511985 to: The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy (Paperback) by Stephen G. Michaud
bookshelves: true-crime
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