The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins My rating: 2 of 5 stars I have to admit that I've gone out of my way to avoid this book since it was released a while ago. I mean, who wants to read a whole book about young Snow? Yeah, you know what I mean. Still, when I found …

Barren Cove by Ariel S. Winter My rating: 5 of 5 stars I remember picking this up during one of our many thrift store adventures several years ago because it sounded very interesting. I mean, it's about robots and I LOVE robot stories. Always have. Mr. Sapien is an old robot who wa…

Tales from the Crypt #4: Crypt-Keeping It Real by Stefan Petrucha My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well, this volume contained seven stories, but I only enjoyed two of them. And both were written by Joe R. Landsdale and John L. Lansdale! Moonlight Sonata is a cool spin on werewolves. And A Rip…

Tales from the Crypt, No. 3: Zombielicious by Mort Todd My rating: 2 of 5 stars Well, this is another Tales from the Crypt volume, and here's what I thought of each story: EXTRA LIFE by Neil Kleid features a very bored and confused guy called Andy, or Evenblade. When his real and…

Tales from the Crypt #2: Can You Fear Me Now?: Can You Fear Me Now? by Neil Kleid My rating: 4 of 5 stars My husband found a bunch of these at our local thrift store last week, so I thought I'd give them a go. Here's what I thought of each story: A MURDERIN' IDOL by Mort To…

Regression, Vol. 1: Way Down Deep by Cullen Bunn My rating: 2 of 5 stars My husband found three volumes of this comic book at the thrift store and because he knows I love horror, thought I might be interested. Of course I was. Adrian keeps having hallucinations about nightmarish situat…

My First Book of Girl Power by Julie Merberg My rating: 5 of 5 stars My husband found this book today while we were thrifting, and of course we had to buy it. I mean, it's a book about girl power featuring a bunch of very cool women who also happen to be superheroes. I think this…

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've had this book on my TBR pile for a while. It was one I found during our pre-Covid thrifting. So, I decided to see if I liked the sounds of it... and once I started, I couldn't stop reading. On her twenty-sixth birthday…

A Nightmare on Clown Street by R.L. Stine My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm pretty sure this is the first Goosebumps Most Wanted I've read. With a cover like that, of course I had to check it out. Ray's uncle, Theo, is a clown in Koko's Klown Academy, so Ray Gun loves th…

The Wizard Of Ooze by R.L. Stine My rating: 1 of 5 stars I actually enjoyed a bunch of the earlier HorrorLand Goosebumps series, but these later ones are really NOT grabbing me. Marco gets his hands on a rare edition of his favourite comic book, The Ooze, at the Chiller House gift s…

When The Ghost Dog Howls by R.L. Stine My rating: 2 of 5 stars Late last week, I set myself a small reading challenge: read the 10 Goosebumps HorrorLand books we found in one of our local thrift stores earlier this year. Well, this is the last one. And I have to say it's one …

Escape From Horrorland by R.L. Stine My rating: 3 of 5 stars While the previous Goosebumps HorrorLand books were novels with a shortie at the end, this entire installment takes place in HorrorLand. Well, actually, that's not right. It takes place in Panic Park. That's righ…

Help! We Have Strange Powers! by R.L. Stine My rating: 1 of 5 stars Okay, so this book was SO meh, I had to skim a lot of it. The problem is that I didn't find Jillian and Jackson very interesting. Actually, their story was boring and quite ridiculous. These two are twins who d…

Say Cheese - And Die Screaming by R.L. Stine My rating: 2 of 5 stars This happens to be the eighth book in the Goosebumps HorrorLand series and I didn't enjoy it as much as some of the others. I read another Say Cheese and Die! story a few years back, which I really enjoyed. …

My Friends Call Me Monster by R.L. Stine My rating: 5 of 5 stars You know, when I started reading this book, I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy it. I mean, it starts with three friends breaking into their teacher's house to dump a black cat, hoping to freak her out becau…

Who's Your Mummy? by R.L. Stine My rating: 5 of 5 stars I'm really enjoying this Goosebumps HorrorLand reading binge. Especially after finishing this AWESOME book. Abby and her brother Peter go to stay with their Uncle Jonathan, who they don't know, because their grand…

Dr. Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz by R.L. Stine My rating: 1 of 5 stars I know this is aimed at kids, but there's a reason why people don't like stories that end with 'and it was all a dream' . Although this book didn't end on that note exactly, the same vibes are t…

The Scream of the Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine My rating: 5 of 5 stars Well, this happens to be the fourth book in the Goosebumps HorrorLand series. It's also technically the third book about the dreaded Haunted Mask, but because I've found most of these books in thrift stor…

Creep from the Deep by R.L. Stine My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the second book in the Goosebumps HorrorLand series and although the cover is super cool, it doesn't match the story. At all. When siblings, Billy and Sheena spend the summer on their uncle's boat, they'…

Revenge of the Living Dummy by R.L. Stine My rating: 5 of 5 stars This happens to be the first Goosebumps HorrorLand book, but it's not actually the first I've read in this series. Britney Crosby doesn't like her annoying cousin, so when Ethan arrives with a creepy ven…