Similarily to last year, we are posting this way late. Because, well life and such. Also, we’re just terribly bloggers here at whatchYAreading. At least we know that. We own that. Instead of listing our favourite books of the year, a couple years ago we came up with a series of morally testing questions to…
It’s Readathon time again! Yay! Hedgie guarded my first reads while I slept. I hesitated in participating this year because I have to be at work this afternoon at 3:45 and then I finish at 10:15 at which point I’m going to catch the end of my friends Thanksgiving dinner. So it’s going to be…
On Saturday September 21st, Raincoast Books hosted it’s first Teens Read Preview…morning…day…event…thing. That is, they invited local bloggers, librarians, and booksellers, to hear about the upcoming seasons books, get fun goodies and win some coveted ARCs. For those of you who are not Canadian, Raincoast Books is a little difficult to explain, I suppose. They…
I don’t even know where to begin with this one. I was very excited for Hunter’s story before starting this one. Excited for more world building and learning about the other side of things and all that. Plus I really liked the way Hunter was turning out in Spark. With power comes enemies. Lots of…
Christine was a big fan of Stacey Kade’s Ghost and the Goth series, so when I saw a copy of this at ALA I thought I would grab it for her. Because I am a nice friend. But then I forgot to send it to her because I am a bad friend. So then I…
Despite this books overwhelming presence at ALA Midwinter, I wasn’t excited at all. I’ve previously read about half of the Monstromologist (also by Rick Yancey) and while I was impressed by his writing style, I didn’t care for the characters at all. And…well, other things that made me put the book down.1 But a friend…
Guys! It’s my third Read-a-thon! Yay! And I’ve made myself a blanket nest and I’m currently snuggled into it with Princess Snapples. All is well. Find me on Twitter when I’m distracting myself from reading! And go here to find out more about the Read-a-thon and it’s long history. Now if only I could…
You ever have that thing where a friend posts a review of a book (or just talks to you about a book) and they have all these criticisms. And you agree with every single one of them. Except they really disliked the book and you really enjoyed the book. That’s what happened to me when…
First off, is anyone else completely stumped by the authors last name? I have spent the last five minutes staring at my computer trying to figure out how to pronounce it and my mouth doesn’t like it. Not at all. Becca Chandler is suddenly getting all the guys; all the ones she doesn’t want. Ever…
On our sojourn down to Seattle for ALAMW earlier this year, we tried to stay for the Monday Hall opening…when the publishers give away all of their display copies! But we had to get back to Vancouver for various work and volunteer obligations. Except the nice people at the Little Brown booth had told me…