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“When you can eat, eat. When you can sleep, sleep. When you can fuck, fuck. But do not fuck with the pancreas.”

The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year by Matt McCarthy

August 13, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

No joke, I just heard that line on Grey’s Anatomy (Bailey skipped the f-bomb though). Apparently we REALLY need to respect the pancreas. The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly is Dr. Matt McCarthy’s mostly funny but occasionally heart-breaking memoir of his first year as an intern. He takes us through rounds, nights on call, patients he couldn’t help and the patients he could. We meet the doctors who train him (or berate him), his fellow interns, and the nurses who keep it all running. […]

Back to back 2-star YA novels have held my reviews up!

Little Monsters by Kara Thomas

The Forgotten HLittle Monstersours by Katrin Schumann

August 13, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

One of the reasons I let myself get behind in book reviews (which apparently runs in the family) is that some books are so very meh — not terrible but also really not worth talking about — that I avoid reviewing them. And then weeks and months go by, and I have even less to say but now I have tons of good books I wanna talk about (read The Collector series by Dot Hutchison!) so I’m buckling down folks. I read these two books […]

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead

Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus

August 7, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

One of the questions asked about this book on Goodreads is “Is this like a Pretty Little Liars fanfiction? It kinda sounds like it…” and honestly, that’s probably all you need to know (the answer is no, but probably could be without too much effort). But I have to give you more than that! “All of Fright Farm’s success is based on how much people love to be scared in a controlled environment. There’s something deeply satisfying about confronting a monster and escaping unscathed. Real monsters […]

CBR11Bingo: Rainbow Flag

The Light Years: A Memoir by Chris Rush

August 5, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

Chris Rush (who identifies as gay, so this is my Rainbow Flag square) grew up in a family was outwardly prosperous and moral — staunch Roman Catholics with a thriving business and perfect parties on the weekends. Beneath the surface, his father was a raging alcoholic driving the business to the ground, and his “hostess” mother spent most of her time drugged or drunk or both. Rush’s siblings ran wild, experimented with and sold drugs, had sex, disappeared for months at a time. At 12 […]

CBR11Bingo: Summer Read

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

July 30, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

An Anonymous Girl is ridiculous — it’s silly and trashy and I doubt I’ll remember a bit of it six months from now, but it was definitely entertaining and I blew through it so I’m counting this as my “summer read!”. “We all have reasons for our actions. Even if we hide the reason from those who think they know us best. Even if the reasons are so deeply buried we can’t recognize them ourselves.” Okay, let me see if I can wrangle this one […]

“Challenging injustice means standing up for the weak, the vulnerable, the abused, and the forgotten”

What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha

July 30, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

What the Eyes Don’t See mixes Dr. Hanna-Attisha’s own personal and familial history with the story of her part in proving that the children of Flint, Michigan were being poisoned by their water. Each aspect of the book is interesting, although they don’t mesh as seamlessly as I’d like. I would have love to have read an entire book about just her life or an entire book about just Flint, but I doubt there’s enough material here for either. Regardless, her passion for children and […]

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