A good Sunday to you all! Hey, have you started your Christmas shopping yet? I am MOST excited because I think I found the Ultimate Christmas Gift for Thea but shhhhhh don’t tell her! Anyways, here is our weekly…
This Saturday, and every Saturday for the duration of the TV season, we bring you On The Boob Tube with The Book Smugglers: in which we talk about all those water cooler moments of the past week’s episodes, raving…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. This is how the Smugglers’…
Title: The Hero of Ages Author: Brandon Sanderson Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor (US)/Gollancz (UK) Publication Date: October 2008 (US)/February 2010 (UK) Paperback: 784 pages Stand alone or series: Book 3, final volume of the Mistborn trilogy How did we…
Title: The Dust of 100 Dogs Author: A. S. King Genre: YA (and a mish-mash of Romance! Pirates! History! Reincarnation!) Publisher: Flux Publishing Date: January 2009 Paperback: 336 pages Stand alone or series: Stand Alone Why did I read…
Title: The Maze Runner Author: James Dashner Genre: Dystopian/Apocalyptic, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Delacorte Books Publication Date: October 2009 Hardcover: 384 pages Stand alone or series: First book in a planned series. How did I get this…
Giveaways Inspirations and Influences
Guest Author and Giveaway: Lori Brighton on Inspirations and Influences
“Inspiration and Influences” is a new series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspiration and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free reign so they can go…
I am suffering from genre exhaustion. When someone reads as much as I do (about 3-4 books per week), it is inevitable that I sometimes hit the proverbial reading slump, even amongst the genres I most love (as in…
Title: Blind Spot (in the anthology Must Love Hellhounds) Author: Meljean Brook Genre: Paranormal Romance Publisher: Berkley Trade Publishing Date: September 2009 Pages: less than 100 Stand Alone/ Series: A standalone story set in the Guardian’s universe. Why did…
Title: Blood Promise Author: Richelle Mead Genre: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Razorbill (Penguin) Publication Date: August 2009 Hardcover: 512 pages Stand alone or series: Book 4 in the ongoing Vampire Academy series How did I get this book:…
