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…
Leah Cypess’s Mistwood has been sitting on my nightstand for a bit now. I kept telling myself, ok, Mistwood next, and then somehow something else always got put on top of it. Somehow this almost always guarantees that I love a book. I wish I knew why this always seems to happen, but I don’t….
Every once in a while, a book comes along, seemingly out of nowhere, and changes your life. It’s one of those books that you clutch to your chest when you’re done, like if you hug it hard enough it will melt right into your heart because it feels like it belongs there already. I found…
Before I proceed with this week’s Time to Be a Grownup, I get to announce the winner of our Clockwork Angel book plate- Emilie! Please contact us with your information so we can mail it to you! The first time I read The Great Gatsby I was neither a grownup nor was it during the…
I loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved, loved this book. Loved. A lot. I’ve had a very long and (mostly) happy relationship with the writings of Cate Tiernan. Her chosen genre speaks to me. Some people will read any book with vampires, some people like faeries. I have a thing for witches. Not like, Wizard…
I’ve heard a lot of comparisons between this book and Indiana Jones. And I must say, I totally agree. Indiana Jones1 was never going to win Best Picture from the Academy but they were always super fun, and the type of movies you could watch over and over again. So, too, was this book. Camille…
Scott Pilgrim, I think I’m in lesbians with you.1 I know this series was majorly hyped because of the movie that came out last month, but, for me, please, forget everything you think you know about the movie version of Scott Pilgrim. Because the books? They’re better.2 Let me start this lovefest by re-introducing you…
There is an exception to every rule. I hate the sci-fi genre. I hate dystopian novels. I have no use for alien races or novels with outdated-yet-futuristic cyber graphics on the cover. Except, naturally, for one. Orson Scott Card’s novel, and frankly the entire series that it spawned, Ender’s Game, proved in both the year…
Hey! I’m back with another installment of ‘Time To Be A Grown-Up’ Thursday! This week I thought I’d tell y’all about a national bestseller that I deeply enjoyed: the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, which consists of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the…
My absolute favourite name for a male is Will. Not William or Bill or anything like that, just Will. And I’ve been incredibly lucky lately that a lot of YA authors have been naming their lead males Will. One of those authors is Sophie Jordan in debut YA1 novel Firelight. I loved this book. I…