Wonderstruck Winner!

This is one of those books that I don’t remember how I heard about it but I remember the summary sounded different than most of the books on my shelf. Sixteen-year-old Ephraim Scott is horrified when he comes home from school and finds his mother unconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills….

This week we’re going to be doing something a bit different on WhatchYAreading. Instead of reviewing whichever book currently strikes our fancy , we’ll be reaching into the archives a bit for a very specific reason: to stand up for intellectual freedom. What prompted our little rebellion is that it happens to be the last…

It’s been noted by my blog partners that I like to read the scary books. This is a true statement. There is something about being terrified by the written word that I can handle much better than I can visually. It’s one of my quirks. Last year’s most scary read for me was Ashes, this…

I’m not a big fan of short stories but when I saw that Melina Marchetta would be releasing one staring Lady Celie from the Lumatere Chronicles, well….I mean, if Melina wrote a page in the dictionary I’d read it for entertainment. I don’t even know where to start with this review. In true Marchetta fashion…

There has been a lot of flap recently about how violent and dark YA novels are. While those books do exist and are wonderful—I read many of them, there are also plenty of authors writing stories with out a dystopia or post-apocalyptic setting in sight. Keris Stainton is one of them. Her debut novel, Della Says:…

So, a friend of mine read my copy of this before I got a chance to and she thought it was okay but not nearly as good as Jackson’s other work. I think this helped me because I went into with lower expectations and ended up really enjoying it. Before her mother died, Shelby promised…