THE STICKY NOTE OF NEWS

I've got a new About Me page! No particular reason, I just thought it was a fun replacement for the now-defunct Review Policy page I had before. Plus I can chop and change it on a regular basis, which will give me something else to play with when I'm bored at the shop. :)

Review Archive

ADULT FICTION

Contemporary

~ Cecilia Ahern - The Gift
~ Sarah Addison Allen - Garden Spells
~ Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
~ Abby Clements - Meet Me Under the Mistletoe
~ Gideon Defoe - The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (The Pirates! 1)
~ Gideon Defoe - The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists (The Pirates! 3)
~ Leanna Ellis - Once in a Blue Moon
~ Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club
~ Annabel Giles - Crossing the Paradise Line
~ Tracey Garvis Graves - On the Island
~ Sara Gruen - Ape House
~ Heather Gudenkauf - The Weight of Silence
~ Alison Penton Harper - Housewife Up (Helen Robbins 2)
~ Zoë Heller - Notes on a Scandal
~ Alice Hoffman - Practical Magic
~ Kazuo Ishiguro - Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
~ Graham Joyce - The Silent Land
~ Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack - Book Lover
~ Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
~ Santa Montefiore - Last Voyage of the Valentina
~ Chuck Palahniuk - Snuff
~ Matthew Quick - The Silver Linings Playbook
~ Tom Rachman - The Imperfectionists
~ Bill Richardson - Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast
~ Laurie Viera Rigler - Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
~ Kristina Springer - The Espressologist
~ Christos Tsiolkas - Loaded
~ Will Wiles - Care of Wooden Floors
~ Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
~ Deborah Wright - Under My Spell

Crime/ Thriller/ Mystery

~ Belinda Bauer - Blacklands
~ Linda Castillo - Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder 1)
~ Mary and Carol Higgins Clark - Dashing Through the Snow
~ Joanne Fluke - Strawberry Shortcake Murder
~ Tess Gerritsen - Bloodstream
~ Henning Mankell - Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander 1)
~ Karin Slaughter - Blindsighted (Sara Linton 1)
~ Karin Slaughter - Skin Privilege (Sara Linton 6)
~ S.J. Watson - Before I Go To Sleep

Counter-Culture

~ Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Science Fiction/ Fantasy/ Horror

~ Glen Duncan - The Last Werewolf
~ William Goldman - The Princess Bride
~ James Herbert - Haunted
~ Susan Hill - The Man in the Picture
~ Tanya Huff - Blood Price (Vicki Nelson 1)
~ Allyson James - Dragon Heat (Dragon Series 1)
~ Stephen King - Carrie
~ Stephen King - Pet Sematary
~ Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
~ Chuck Palahniuk - Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
~ Gena Showalter - The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld 1)
~ Gena Showalter - The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld 2)
~ Bernard Taylor - The Godsend
~ John Wyndham - The Chrysalids

Graphic Novels

~ Alan Moore and David Lloyd - V for Vendetta

Drama

~ Alan Bennett - The History Boys

Historical

~ Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers
~ Victoria Hislop - The Island
~ Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child
~ Alberto Manguel - Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
~ Ian McEwan - Atonement
~ Michelle Moran - Nefertiti
~ Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
~ Patrick Süskind - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
~ Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet

Classics

~ John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
~ Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
~ Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel
~ Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
~ H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines
~ Mary Shelley - Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
~ Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
~ H.G. Wells - The Invisible Man


ADULT NON-FICTION

(Auto)Biography

~ Don Borchert - Library Confidential: Oddballs, Geeks and Gangstas in the Public Library
~ Jo Brand - Look Back in Hunger
~ Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors
~ Carrie Fisher - Wishful Drinking
~ Helene Hanff - 84, Charing Cross Road / The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
~ Sara Nelson - So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
~ Gabriel Weston - Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story

Science/ Natural History

~ Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum - A World Without Bees
~ Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman - Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms that Living Things Need to Thrive and Survive
~ James McKay - Practical Falconry
~ Stacey O'Brien - Wesley: The Story of a Remarkable Owl
~ Mick O'Hare (ed.) - Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Questions
~ Rachel Smolker - To Touch a Wild Dolphin

Social Sciences

~ Nicholas Carr - The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember
~ Malcolm Gladwell - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
~ Jon Krakauer - Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
~ Nick Krieger - Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender
~ Dennis O'Donnell - The Locked Ward: Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly
~ Anna Quindlen - How Reading Changed My Life
~ Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune - Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement
~ Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less

Travel Writing

~ Matthew Collins - Matthew's Travels: Ten Years of Trips for 'The Travel Show'
~ Stewart Ferris and Paul Bassett - Don't Mention the War!: A Shameful European Rail Adventure
~ Angus, Travers and Maisie McNeice - The Lion Children

True Crime

~ Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Food/ Cookery

~ Julie Powell - Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
~ Nigel Slater - Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table

Humour/ Journalism/ Essays

~ Jen Campbell - Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
~ Jeremy Clarkson - The World According to Clarkson
~ Grace Dent - How to Leave Twitter: My Time as Queen of the Universe and Why This Must Stop
~ Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous - Beach Babylon
~ Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous - Wedding Babylon
~ Anne Fadiman - Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
~ Alison Jackson - Kate and Wills Up the Aisle: A Right Royal Fairy Tale
~ Kevin Joslin - See John Run
~ Lauren Leto - Judging a Book by Its Lover
~ Kerry Miller (ed.) - Your Mother Doesn't Work Here: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Notes
~ Karl Pilkington - Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The Words of Karl Pilkington
~ Danny Wallace - Awkward Situations for Men

Books About Books

~ Don Borchert - Library Confidential: Oddballs, Geeks and Gangstas in the Public Library
~ Jen Campbell - Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
~ Nicholas Carr - The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember
~ Anne Fadiman - Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
~ Helene Hanff - 84, Charing Cross Road / The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
~ Lauren Leto - Judging a Book by Its Lover
~ Sara Nelson - So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
~ Anna Quindlen - How Reading Changed My Life


CHILDREN'S AND YA

Contemporary

~ Malorie Blackman - Boys Don't Cry
~ Tanya Byrne - Heart-Shaped Bruise
~ Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
~ Keren David - Lia's Guide to Winning the Lottery
~ Lauren Kate - The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove
~ David Levithan and Rachel Cohn - Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
~ Carolyn Mackler - Vegan Virgin Valentine (V Valentine 1)
~ Simon Mason - Moon Pie
~ Andy Mulligan - Trash
~ R.J. Palacio - Wonder
~ Luisa Plaja - Kiss, Date, Love, Hate
~ Jennifer E. Smith - The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
~ Kristina Springer - The Espressologist
~ Tabitha Suzuma - Forbidden
~ Deborah van der Beek - Owl Cry

Crime/ Thriller

~ Sean Olin - Killing Britney
~ Charlie Price - Desert Angel
~ Robert Swindells - Stone Cold

Classic

~ L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (The Land of Oz 1)

Science Fiction/ Fantasy/ Horror

~ Lindsey Barraclough - Long Lankin
~ John Boyne - Noah Barleywater Runs Away
~ Roald Dahl - Matilda
~ Chris d'Lacey - Icefire (David Rain 2)
~ Candace Fleming - On The Day I Died
~ Alex Flinn - Beastly
~ Tessa Gratton - Blood Magic
~ Keith Gray - The Fearful
~ Matt Haig - To Be A Cat
~ Catherine Jinks - The Reformed Vampire Support Group
~ Mike Lancaster - 0.4
~ Joy Preble - Dreaming Anastasia
~ Lucy Daniel Raby - Nickolai of the North
~ Kathy Reichs - Virals (Virals 1)
~ Kathy Reichs - Seizure (Virals 2)
~ Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
~ Meg Rosoff - There Is No Dog
~ J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
~ J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
~ Louis Sachar - Holes
~ Michael Scott - The Alchemyst (Nicholas Flamel 1)
~ Michael Scott - The Magician (Nicholas Flamel 2)

Paranormal/ Romance

~ Rachel Caine - Glass Houses (Morganville Vampires 1)
~ Rachel Caine - The Dead Girls' Dance (Morganville Vampires 2)
~ Beth Fantaskey - Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
~ Becca Fitzpatrick - Hush, Hush (Fallen Angels 1)
~ Lauren Kate - Fallen (Fallen 1)
~ Lauren Kate - Torment (Fallen 2)
~ Lauren Kate - Passion (Fallen 3)
~ Lauren Kate - Fallen in Love (Fallen 3.5)

Dystopian

~ Jennifer Bosworth - Struck
~ Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games 1)
~ Lia Habel - Dearly, Departed (Gone With the Respiration 1)
~ Alice Hoffman - Green Angel
~ Megan McCafferty - Bumped

Historical

~ Sharon Dogar - Annexed


ON SCREEN

Films

~ 84, Charing Cross Road (Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins)
~ Easy A (Emma Stone, Stanley Tucci)
~ The History Boys (Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore)
~ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint)
~ The Jane Austen Book Club (Maria Bello, Hugh Dancy)
~ The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller)
~ Rebecca (Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine)
~ Running with Scissors (Joseph Cross, Annette Bening)
~ Smart People (Dennis Quaid, Ellen Page)
~ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Robert Pattison, Kristen Stewart)
~ V for Vendetta (Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman)
~ Warm Bodies (Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer)

Television

~ The Big Bang Theory (Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons)
~ Blood Ties (Christina Cox, Kyle Schmid)
~ The Diary of Anne Frank (Ellie Kendrick, Iain Glen)
~ My Mad Fat Diary (Sharon Rooney, Nico Mirallegro)