The Tale of the Phantom Cab Lorraine: As part of our continued Halloween-themed posting, we will be covering a handful of Are You Afraid of the Dark episodes. We won’t...
Sweeney: That is a screen cap of our WordPress dashboard before we hit publish on this post, making this the big one hundred. Obviously, it's time to break out the streamers, chocolate, and wine. Especially the wine. (Lor: Especially the chocolate wine!) (Good call)
In celebration of this momentous occasion, it was necessary for us to do a "classic" Childhood Trauma post. However, rather than just reading and recapping any old Goosebumps book, we each read a "Reader Beware: Choose Your Own Scare" book, and vlogged our experience
Lorraine: Even though I was involved in the brainstorming for this, reading back that explanation of why we decided to do this made me LOL. We seriously thought, "a Goosebumps book isn't BAD enough. We need something WORSE!"
Unfortunately for Mary Anne, and more importantly me, she is trapped in the eighth grade for the rest of forever and it’s just not a good look for her.
Our story begins with the usual redundant nonsense. Kristy is gross, but Mary Anne is lame and obsessed with her, so we get to hear all about it. Today our girls are placed into predictable developing-complex-characters-is-hard boxes by way of introducing them alongside their lunch choices. Kristy gets the school lunch so she can be gross, Dawn eats granola and tofu and shit, and Claudia loves junk food blah blah blah. Oh and also Kristy lives in a giant-house-no-jk-a-mansion and Claudia is “exotic.” The usual.
Nugs: When I was in high school, I hung out with this dude who was a massive stoner. He slept near his bowl the way old people keep their fingers...
Happy New Year Traumateers! We realize we were only off for a week, but we missed you guys anyways. We hope you are ready for another year of babies watching babies,...
Lorraine: And before you judge me preemptively for the title of this post, let me go ahead and show you the cover of this book: In case you were wondering,...
Happy Halloween Traumateers! Today we have the last installment of the “Night of the Living Dummy” series plus the winner of the our first ever giveaway, picked by none other...
Lorraine: I’m going to be honest here for a second and let you know that there is a certain amount of embarrassment that comes with writing for Childhood Trauma. I...
Lily: First things first… For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Lily from Is it too early for a martini? Where have I been this entire time? I...
Nugs: This book really pissed me off because the cover and the description on the back are NOTHING like what goes on in the actual plot. Nips, I know R.L....
Sweeney: “If you’re afraid of bees, I have to warn you – there are a lot of bees in this story. In fact, there are hundreds.” Thank you for beginning...
Previously: Dawn has to baby-sit for some terrible kids that are actually not terrible at all. Their mother on the other hand should’ve been carted away by CPS. — Sweeney:...
Sara: Let me preface this review by saying that scary movies, books, and tv shows no longer have the power to be as terrifying as they used to be, thanks...
Previously: The BSC girls have a fight and Mary Anne makes a new friend, Dawn. Dawn helps her remember that “9-1-1-” is a thing, thus Mary Anne saves the day....
Nugs: The scariest thing about these Goosebumps posts aren’t the actual books, but the way we’re choosing which ones to review. It’s like we’re all sharing each others’ brains, or...