The Near Witch Winner!

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…

It is a well known and well established fact that I don’t like to be scared. No horror movies. No R.L. Stein books as a kid and certainly no Stephen King. Yet the bulk of the appeal of Kimberly Derting’s The Body Finder to me was that it gave me the creeps. As in it…

I wanted to write reviews for some books I read during the summer, but I didn’t take any notes and all I really remember is general ~feelings. So, I thought I’d write a bunch of mini reviews. Mystic City by Theo Lawrence This one is very similar in premise to Black City but without so…

I’ve been reading a lot of Very Serious Books lately. Heavy issues, heavy prose, and heavy thoughts. These reads are wonderful and can teach us so much and give us insight into experiences that we would never be able to experience otherwise. They can also be very taxing on you after awhile and that’s where…

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…

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…