Witch World Review

Witch World 
by Christopher Pike
Expected Publication:
From Goodreads:

Witches are real—and each of us may be one—in this all-new paranormal suspense novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike.Heading off for a weekend in Las Vegas with her friends, Jessie Ralle has only one worry—how to make it through the road trip in the same car with her Ex, Jimmy Kelter. The guy who broke her heart five months ago when he dumped her for no reason. The guy who’s finally ready to tell her why he did it, because he wants her back.



But what Jessie doesn’t realize is that Jimmy is the least of her problems.

In Las Vegas she meets Russ, a mesmerizing stranger who shows her how to gamble, and who never seems to lose. Curious, Jessie wants to know his secret, and in response, alone in his hotel room, he teaches her a game that opens a door to another reality.

To Witch World.

Suddenly Jessie discovers that she’s stumbled into a world where some people can do the impossible, and others may not even be human. For a time she fears she’s lost her mind. Are there really witches? Is she one of them?

#1 Bestselling author Christopher Pike offers up another classic edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that keeps you guessing right until the last page.

Midnight Thoughts

"What if they torture me? You know, I just graduated high school, I'm not psychologically prepared to have my fingernails slowly ripped from my hands"
     ~Jessie, ARC edition.

~A new Christopher Pike book always feels like a birthday present!  Thank you, Mr. Pike. 

~I've mentioned this a few million times, but I really love Christopher Pike.  So much.  In a way that probably would be a problem for him if he wasn't such a recluse.

~Witch World starts like old school Pike, the main character has a semi-hopeless crush on her ex-boyfriend, her friends are funny and witty.  There's a road trip.  Then come the witches!

From Goodreads

~The witches aren't typical incense burning, spell muttering witches, and they aren't even that close to the witch in Christopher Pike's earlier book Witch.  Witch is just a name those with powers adopted.

~Pike is not afraid to bring up deep issues or complicated science in YA books- part of the reason I respect him so much.  However, because science was my absolute worst subject in school, I don't know if those who actually have science-y knowledge would have a problem with Pike's theories.  But it sounds sufficiently complicated to me. ;)

~Jessie is our main girl, ex-boyfriend Jimmie is the love interest.  Her best friends are Alex, Debbie and Ted.  Debbie and Ted get a bit lost in the book, which took some of the potential fun away.  I really thought Ted was going to have a larger role.  Maybe in the next book!

~Witch world is a parallel world to ours (or vice versa?) and the rules are intriguing, even if they're a bit confusing.  Except: Jessie is Jessica in Witch world, Russ is Russell, Jimmy is James, and so on.  Can you still exist in both worlds if you don't have a nickname? With all the changes P. Diddy has gone through, exactly how many freaking alternate worlds does he exist in?

~This book has some mature themes.  It explores the question of sacrificing the few to benefit the many.  Julius Caesar and President Eisenhower- are they heroes for the lives they saved, or barbarians for the lives they took?  And there's sex and teen pregnancy.  Obviously if you have lots of witch genes you don't just take your sex partner's word for it that they've got the birth control covered. 

~The book is a fast paced read, but there's a lot going on, so you are going to need your thinking cap.  Mine is purple with green paisleys on it.  What does yours look like?

~Favorite characters- Kendor and Al.  I would have no problem with the CW picking this series up and hiring a bunch of hotties to play them.  Although, this could probably fit in with HBO or Showtime, just amp up the sex and curse words.  {side note: does it sometimes feel like everyone on cable series are suffering from some form of Tourettes or is it just me?}

~I hate the names of the opposing forces in Witch world- Tar and Lapras.  Tar is the worst though.  I'm not admitting to being shallow enough to pick sides based on name alone, but Team Lapras does have nicer ring to it then Team Tar.  And the Tar are the good guys... I think...

~While I like the cover, the girls look like they have blonde hair.  Which bothers me, because Jessie has reddish hair. Yes, I realize that the cover is all red and black, but still, it just looks to much like Sita from the Last Vampire books.  Still, I dig the redness. 

~Kendor has some of the best quotes, but here is my favorite:

"You want heroes who only perform noble acts.  But the greatest heroes often make the most bitter decisions."

~If you enjoy The Last Vampire series then no doubt Jessie and gang with satisfy your Pike needs.  Although I will always prefer Pike's earlier books (Weekend, Chainletter, the Final Friends series), he still entertains the hell out of me. 

Witch World gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

**Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book through Around the World ARC tours in exchange for my honest review.  All opinion, snark and wit are my own.  The book was, sadly, only mine for a week  before I passed it on to the next blogger.**

Carnival of Souls Review

Carnival of Souls 
by Melissa Marr
From Goodreads:

In a city of daimons, rigid class lines separate the powerful from the power-hungry. And at the heart of The City is the Carnival of Souls, where both murder and pleasure are offered up for sale. Once in a generation, the carnival hosts a deadly competition that allows every daimon a chance to join the ruling elite. Without the competition, Aya and Kaleb would both face bleak futures--if for different reasons. For each of them, fighting to the death is the only way to try to live.

All Mallory knows of The City is that her father--and every other witch there--fled it for a life in exile in the human world. Instead of a typical teenage life full of friends and maybe even a little romance, Mallory scans quiet streets for threats, hides herself away, and trains to be lethal. She knows it's only a matter of time until a daimon finds her and her father, so she readies herself for the inevitable. While Mallory possesses little knowledge of The City, every inhabitant of The City knows of her. There are plans for Mallory, and soon she, too, will be drawn into the decadence and danger that is the Carnival of Souls.

From Melissa Marr, bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series and "Graveminder," comes a brand-new tale of lush secrets, dark love, and the struggle to forge one's own destiny.

Midnight Thoughts

~One of the main characters, Mallory, and her relationship with her father totally reminds me of the movie Léon: The Professional and Natalie Portman's relationship with Léon, the hitman, played by Jean Reno.  Which of course made me like her immediately.

From AllMovies.Com

 ~The book is bloody, and it's bloody early on.  It stays bloody.  I had no problem with that.

 ~Aya is kick ass.  Seriously, I had trouble thinking of her and Belias as older teens, because they are so much cooler than most YA characters.  While Mallory and Kaleb might be the characters the teen readers connect with the most, Aya and Belias could seriously have their own adult series.  I really think paranormal romance lovers would eat them up.  I know they'll be the reason I pounce on the next book in this series!

~Aya is stubborn.  I get why she keeps secrets, but since I immediately liked Belias, I had a hard time with what she did to him.  But it's not like I could have offered up a better solution, and it definitely makes Aya a controversial character.

~Here be Witches and Daimons.  I hated when demons is spelled with an "ai"  I can handle it spelled "Daemons", but when I see it as "Daimons" my brain wants to call them Day-mons.  Although, since Marr has created a demons that felt more like a were-creature, maybe that's the way I'm supposed to pronounce it?  Confused.

~I was really surprised by how much I liked this book, because I don't always dig the paranormal aspect of some YA books, and I did have some problems with it here.  It's explained several times, by several characters, about the fight between the witches and the daimons, and the resulting wild woods that grew, constantly threatening the city. 

~There was an aspect to the fights I just didn't get: Strong daimons are needed to fight the witches, so why have them kill each other all gladiator style?  I get that it was an incentive to the curs, their one chance to move up in status, and maybe men, especially daimon men, just need to fight.  I mean, I don't get why people want to be boxers either.  So it all could just be me.

~While I wasn't crazy about the mythology of the book, I really liked the characters and all the conflict.  Carnival of Souls has crazy action and the character's are given a real purpose and drive.  Basically I wouldn't care if they were giant Bunnies and talking Toadstools, because I was so intrigued by Aya, Belias, Mallory, Kaleb, Zevi, Marchoias, Adam and Evelyn.  I would totally invite them to my Halloween party.

SPOILERISH

~There is a marriage that takes place in the book without the bride present, so a proxy bride stands in her place.  Fairly old fashioned custom that I didn't have a problem with, but then the marriage is consummated in front of people.  Um, not particularly the stuff of YA, but this book is definitely geared towards the older YA set and adults who read YA, like me.  My big question though, did the actual bride lose her virginity by proxy?  Inquiring minds want to know!

~The relationship, "pact", that Kaleb and Zevi formed was... ambiguous?  I really thought it was sexual in nature for about half the book.  And I'm still not 100% sure, which is fine if confusing.  I look forward to learning a lot more about Zevi in the next book!

END Of SPOILERS

~Overall I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the book.  I will definitely be looking forward to reading other Melissa Marr books, and I'm really glad this got to be my first read by her!

Carnival of Souls gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

**Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book at BEA 2012, all opinion, snark and wit in this review are my own. **

Sundays In Bed With... The Archived (and The Ravens Boy Giveaway!)

Welcome to my Sundays in Bed With... Meme where I share what book I'm currently curled up with (or, as the case is today, what book I wish I had time to spend reading in bed this morning).

Now through Sunday September 16th each time you participate in my meme you'll be entered to win an ARC of Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys!  This contest is open internationally.  Simply share what you're reading today, and each Sunday thru 9/16, and earn an entry.  Link up to your post each Sunday to the Mister Linky area at the bottom.  You will get an extra entry if you take a picture of the book you're reading (or wish you had the time to read) in your actual bed or wherever you are holed up this morning. Sadly this morning I'm too busy taking the Hubs to the airport and heading to work to stay in bed reading, but I will be The Archived by Victoria Schwab.  I finished The Raven Boys several weeks ago, and it is easily one of my favorite books of 2012!  Here's the pic I posted three weeks ago (don't worry though, the copy I will send to the winner will not have been sat upon by Riley):

 It should be noted that Riley cat is not ready for his close-up today.  Obviously naming the new kitten Alabama for a movie prostitute (True Romance, midnighters! Watch it!) was prophetic.  Little 'Bama gave Riley feline herpes, so his eyes are a little gunky.  He is much better, but since he's vain I didn't want to post a current pic of him.  His agent wouldn't allow it and in order to avoid flare ups we have to keep him and Alabama from "stress". How much stress can creatures that sleep up to 16 hours a day have?  Moving on...

Today I'm reading The Archived!

So let my know what you're curled up with this morning (or wish you were!), just add your link below!

Ten About Ten: Three, Four and Five

Ten 
by Gretchen McNeil
Expected Publication: 09.18.2012
From Goodreads:

 And their doom comes swiftly.

It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives—an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie each have their reasons for being there (which involve T.J., the school’s most eligible bachelor) and look forward to three glorious days of boys, booze and fun-filled luxury.

But what they expect is definitely not what they get, and what starts out as fun turns dark and twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine.

Suddenly people are dying, and with a storm raging, the teens are cut off from the outside world. No electricity, no phones, no internet, and a ferry that isn’t scheduled to return for two days. As the deaths become more violent and the teens turn on each other, can Meg find the killer before more people die? Or is the killer closer to her than she could ever imagine?

I first read Ten right after I got back from BEA.  It was a book I was very excited about, even more so after meeting the adorable author and getting my book signed.  I thought instead of just doing a review I'd list ten things I loved about Ten by Gretchen McNeil it's September 18th release.

Check out my Ten About Ten: One post here.
Check out my Ten About Ten: Two post here.

 #3 of 10 Things I Loved About Ten by Gretchen McNeil:

The third thing I love about Ten is ALL THE DEATHS.  This is not watered down horror for fragile minded kiddos, this is horror.  In horror, usually but now always, people die.  They die in interesting ways.  And I don't want to hear, "But I don't like violence" because if you can handle ALL THE DEATHS is the Hunger Games series, or the Harry Potter books, than you will be able to handle this.  Heck, when it comes to some of the characters you may find yourself cheering on the killer.  

#4 of 10 Things I Loved About Ten by Gretchen McNeil:

Fourthly, I loved the setting.  In horror, it's almost 90% setting, Midnighters!  Creepy, isolated hotel in the winter?  Creepy, isolated cabin in the woods?  Creepy, isolated house in the country?  All these places work.  Because if someone is scared, and they can't get away, it ratchets up the terror level.  It's not really that scary if you hear a noise in the attic and decide to go to the all night IHOP until the crazy inbred freak in your attic gets bored and decides to move to your neighbor's house.  

In Ten, Meg and friends end up on an island, mostly deserted.  There's a storm, further isolating them from the warm comfort of IHOP's pumpkin pancakes (seriously, are those back yet, ya'll?  I am sooooo ready for fall and pumpkin pancakes), and of course, cutting off all access to help from the authorities.  The nature of the island, the storms knocking out their means of communication... perfect. It's so nice when the weather cooperates with your evil plans to kill a bunch of teens.  

#5 of 10 Things I Loved About Ten by Gretchen McNeil:

Number five is: Gretchen McNeil herself!  The woman is adorable!  She has the cutest giggle and she's just genuinely nice.  I really love when people can be all dark and creepy, yet look like sunshine and laughter.  I only met her briefly at BEA.  I was one of the first people in line for a copy of the Ten arc and I was still ultra nervous about meeting and talking to authors.  McNeil was awesome and giggled sweetly at my over-exuberance.  She even tweeted me a few times instead of taking out a restraining order against me.

And she writes scary books!  Teens need more scares in their lives, and less glitter and falling in love with inhumanly gorgeous guys that turn out to be vampires/fae kings/merman/fallen angels/their half brothers.  Not that they don't need glitter and romance, but death and destruction are also needed to make them into nice, slight warped but infinitely funnier adults.  

Now, go and support cutey-pie Gretchen McNeil and her upcoming book Ten by joining The Army of Ten!

Hop and Follow Friday: Series and What I'm Reading

It's time to HOP! Stop by Crazy For Books and join in on the fun!

Question: What book series do you never want to see end?

I rarely ever want series to end!  But here's the ones I want to go to infinity and beyond:

Harry Potter series by J K Rowling, it's not over for me, people!

The Heather Wells series by Meg Cabot

The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich- I feel that this series could survive Plum getting married and becoming a mom, I'm just not ready to let go of Grandma and Lula!

The John Wayne Cleaver series by Dan Wells, because demon hunting serial killers should never stop!

There's probably more, but that's all I can think of right now. If you're hopping, let me know, and if you give a follow, I'll follow you back!

What series do you never want to see end?

It's been too long since I've done a Feature and Follow too, but with Readathon almost here and my 3rd Blogoversary coming on the 16th of this month, I'm feeling the need to connect with the blogging community (and, okay, yeah, I'd like to read 500 GFC followers this month because I'm shallow and easy to please).

This week's Feature and Follow question is:

Q: What book(s) are you reading right now? What do you think of it?

  As always, I'm reading tons of books all at once!  I'm hosting a Carrie by Stephen King readalong, but I'm also participating in an It by Stephen King readalong too.  I'm almost halfway thru It, which is my goal for this month's discussion, and I'm just starting Carrie.  I got The Archived by Victoria Schwab in the mail yesterday for an ARC tour, so I need to start that today.  Plus I'm reading Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris that Kim was sweet enough to let me borrow.  I was listening to Kill You Twice by Chelsea Cain, but I'm putting it on hold until I'm done with It.  While I can read lots of books at once, I can't really listen to two at once because I have limited audio book time.  However, I am both listening to and reading It in physical form.  I wish I could just spend two days listening to Steven Webber read It, but sadly my family just wouldn't understand. 

It and Carrie are both re-reads, and I love them both for various reasons, and I probably love It a little more each time I read it.  Now that I'm the same age that the Loser's Club members are in 1985, I'm connecting on a whole other level.  Deadlocked is good so far, but I'm worried by how much time Bill is getting.  I don't think Sookie will end up with Eric at the end of the series, but if it's Bill I will throw up all over the last book.  Throw up!  It's too soon to tell with The Archived, but the summary is so promising!

What are you reading?  New or old follower?  Let me know and I'll follow you back!

Fathomless Review

Fathomless 
by Jackson Pearce

From Goodreads:

Celia Reynolds is the youngest in a set of triplets and the one with the least valuable power. Anne can see the future, and Jane can see the present, but all Celia can see is the past. And the past seems so insignificant -- until Celia meets Lo.

Lo doesn't know who she is. Or who she was. Once a human, she is now almost entirely a creature of the sea -- a nymph, an ocean girl, a mermaid -- all terms too pretty for the soulless monster she knows she's becoming. Lo clings to shreds of her former self, fighting to remember her past, even as she's tempted to embrace her dark immortality.

When a handsome boy named Jude falls off a pier and into the ocean, Celia and Lo work together to rescue him from the waves. The two form a friendship, but soon they find themselves competing for Jude's affection. Lo wants more than that, though. According to the ocean girls, there's only one way for Lo to earn back her humanity. She must persuade a mortal to love her . . . and steal his soul.

  

Midnight Thoughts: 

 

"Maybe it's true we're stronger together, but either way, I don't want to be weak if we're broken apart. "*

~Jackson Pearce is one of the few author's who could get be to read a "mermaid" book.  I don't know what I have against them (or angel and fairy books for that matter) though.  Hell, I wanted to be a mermaid when I was a kid.

~Disney's The Little Mermaid, with it's super happy ending, doesn't stay faithful to the Hans Christian Anderson tale that I remember.  Fathomless doesn't either, but there's a similar darkness that is found in old fairy tales.  And since I'm morbid, it appeals to me. ;)

~Main characters- Celia, the youngest of gifted triplets, Lo, a kind of mermaid, and Jude, the scruffy guitar playing boy that the Celia and Lo save from death by water.

~In the original Little Mermaid Tale, the mermaid saves the boy she loves and then another girl comes to his aide on the beach.  I always hated this other girl (in Disney's version she's actually the evil sea witch in disguise), but Fathomless taught me to feel sad for her.  The prince in the fairy tale only loves this girl because he thinks she's the one that saved him.  It's kind of bs, isn't it?  Love should be deeper, you know, based on looks and wealth too. ;)

~Celia has a gift, she can see a person's past when she touches them, her sisters, Jane and Anne, can see the present and the future.  Celia thinks her gift is useless when it fails to her her father, suffering from Alzheimer's, to remember his daughters.  Because I work with so many Alzheimer's patients, I couldn't help but thing how much Celia's gift would delight them.  So many of them love hearing about their past and talking about it.

~There's a moment in the book where Celia realizes that she's been blind to the fact that Jane and Anne's powers of sight must be unpleasant at times too.  I wanted to congratulate her for finally getting it!  It's so nice in YA for main characters to really grow and wise up. 

~Lo is not the mermaid's original name, it was Naida.  Which I am clueless as how to pronounce.  Like Nadia?  Na-i-da?  Nayda?  I don't know.  I am willing to learn this, but for the purpose of reading without straining the old brain too much, I thought of it as Nadia. 

~I loved trying to uncover how Lo and the other water girls ended up in the ocean, and who their "angel" really was.  My mind seized on the possibilities and just like that I had a hundred crazy theories, although maybe not as crazy as the author's version.

~I love that when Celia knows the 'Hey Jude' song by The Beatles, and how relieved Jude is too. 

"Oh good, I don't have to start hating you."  Let this be a lesson, Midnighters, know your Beatles songs!

 SPOILERISH

 ~I had one major problem with the plot.  I am not sure what wolves have to do with the ocean, but okay, what the frak ever.  And it's never really explained, which of course bothers me because this is not really a "sequel" book.  Fortunately, Pearce already had me well invested in the book, because I was all "WTF?"

~When Lo follows an old one to see where she goes, my heart was thumping with fear and anticipation.  It truly shocked me.

END of SPOILERS

~A thunderstorm popped up during the last 30 pages or so of this book whiles I was reading it on a screened-in porch.  It was perfect- matching the mood and the setting of the end of Fathomless.  It felt primal- like Lo and her sisters.  If you get the chance to read this during a storm- do so!

~This was a one day read.  I'm so glad I had the time to read it, because I was able to fully immerse myself into Celia and Lo's world.

Fathomless gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

The one part I had a problem with really kept this from being a perfect read, but ultimately it wasn't enough to ruin this book for me.

"-and the way she talks... It's disconcerting, like she is a very old person in a young body." *

* all quotes are from the ARC of Fathomless and subject to change upon final publication.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of Fathomless through the Around the World ARC Tours in exchange for my honest review.  All opinion, snark and wit are my own. 

Losing John Coffey Again...

Image from Hollywood Gossip

 There are no authors I love quite like Stephen King, and there are few of his books that rip your heart out like The Green Mile does.  And even rarer- a Stephen King movie that gets the character completely, wondrously right. I cared about the gentle giant, John Coffey, before his story came to the big screen, but Michael Clarke Duncan brought the character to life in a way that's so rare for us book lovers.  It's like King's words shaped the actor on the screen, when actually it was Duncan's skill that made it magical.

Michael Clarke Duncan passed away yesterday, and it brought back the overwhelming sadness that John Coffey's death brought to The Green Mile.  I kept hoping it was a hoax, or that there'd be a last minute re-write to bring him back to life.  Sadly, a great actor has gone, but for me Duncan will live on forever as one of my favorite characters.  You see, I just can't separate the actor from the role, and John Coffey will live on forever in pages and on the screen. Rest in peace, Michael Clarke Duncan, I wish you safe passage.

“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.”

― Stephen King, The Green Mile, Part 6: Coffey on the Mile

Book Blogger Confessions: Follow

Book Blogger Confessions is a meme from Midnyte Reader and For What It's Worth and deals with blogger issues and topics.  This week they're asking:

Question: Following:  How do you follow blogs?  Do you use Google Reader?  Are you on an e-mail list?  Are you more apt to follow people who have less followers?  Would you follow a blog to enter a contest?  What makes you unfollow a blog?

Answer: I follow blogs whenever I can through my Google Reader, although I follow a few through email.  I much prefer to have everyone neatly in my Google Reader, and I even have some of the blogs sorted.  For instance I have a Bloggers BFF folder for the blogger's I'm friends with (Kim, Steph, Bittner, Andrea, Jen, Pam, Katie, Cindy, etc) or stalk (Murder by Gaslight and Raych).  Then I have one for blogs that have Word Verification so that I know beforehand if I'm going to have to jump through hoops to leave a comment.  I give really new bloggers a pass on CAPTCHA, but I am far less compelled too continue following a blog that has word verification on it.  I hate CAPTCHA, and I can only assume from the blurry letters and obscure font that it hates me right back.  

 I do like following new bloggers, simply because I remember how it was (and really, still is) to not have a lot of followers.  I follow blogs that draw me to them, I even follow blogs of genres I don't read if the blogger is interesting enough or (and this is shameful) if the blog looks good.  Lori from Pure Imagination designed my blog and I have a tendency to follow the blogs she makes new designs for purely based on how cool they are.  I have made lots of great blogger friends through that, including Cindy from Cindy's Love of Books whom I ended up rooming with at BEA.  I will also follow any blog with the word Midnight in it for obvious reasons.

I do follow blogs to enter contests, but that can't be the sole reason.  It's not fair to the blogger if I'm only following to win and have zero interest in their regular blog content.  Usually though, if they're giving away a book I want to read they also cover a genre or genres I like.  

Occasionally I clean up my Google Reader and find blogs that are inactive, and I'll unfollow them.  This past year I did unfollow a blogger because a post was so ignorant that I had to delete them to preserve my sanity.  Mostly though, if you're posting, I'm still following.  I kind of go follow crazy during Dewey's Readathon, or during other bookish events.  My Google Reader makes it possible to follow tons of blogs without wasting whole days of my life.  

What about you?

Sundays In Bed With... Fathomless and Ravens Boy Giveaway

Welcome to my Sundays in Bed With... Meme where I share what book I'm currently curled up with (or, as the case is today, what book I wish I had time to spend reading in bed this morning).

Now through Sunday September 16th each time you participate in my meme you'll be entered to win an ARC of Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys!  This contest is open internationally.  Simply share what you're reading today, and each Sunday thru 9/16 and earn an entry.  Link up to your post each Sunday to the Mister Linky area at the bottom.  You will get an extra entry if you take a picture of the book you're reading (or wish you had the time to read) in your actual bed or wherever you are holed up this morning.  Today I'm at work already but I'll be starting Fathomless by Jackson Pearce.  I finished The Raven Boys the other week, and it is easily one of my favorite books of 2012!  Here's the pic I posted two weeks ago (don't worry though, the copy I will send to the winner will not have been sat upon by Riley):

Today I'm reading Fathomless

So let my know what you're curled up with this morning (or wish you were!), just add your link below!

 Also, check out my post A Blog By Any Other Name Part 2 and let me know the story behind your blog name, or what you would change it to if you could pick another name!

A Blog By Any Other Name Part 2

One of my original headers

One of my very first blog posts was A Blog By Any Other Name...  where I wondered about our blog names.  Have you ever regretted the one you picked?  Have you actually changed your blog name?  Here's what I wrote on that long ago post:

I love my blog name, it took me seconds to pick and it reminds me of the days I'd stay up all hours to finish a good book. In other words, it reminds me of last night.

But yesterday I got to thinking, now that I've had sometime to think about it, would I still have picked my blog name? The answer is yes, I'm very happy with it and it's honestly like being a book reading super hero- Look up in the sky! It's a nerd, it's a geek, no, it's Midnight Book Girl!

The only other blog name that I even briefly considered was Up Late With Kate. That's a title I've had in mind for awhile, but I always imagined I'd use that when the day comes that someone hands me my own radio station deejay job... not that I have any training in that area, but I like talking and music and it's one of those winning-the-lottery type fantasies.

So my question to you is... Would you change your blog name? If yes, to what? If no, was there any other name you considered?

My blog turns 3 years old later this month, but I'm still wondering, would you change the name of your blog?  What's the story behind your blog name?