It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today it’s Thea’s turn with a review of The Stars Seem So Far Away by Margrét Helgadóttir Go HERE for the full scoop.…
There are those books that grab you by the throat and don’t let go. Infandous is one such book. This is a short review of a short novel that is perfectly concise in its telling, beautiful in its writing,…
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Old School Wednesdays: Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising Sequence #5) by Susan Cooper
Ana has been reading The Dark Is Rising Sequence for the past few months. Today, she takes on the final book in the series, Silver on the Tree. Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smugglers feature. We came…
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Blog Tour & Giveaway: Fonda Lee on Sports Celebrity and the Making of Zeroboxer
In which we welcome Fonda Lee to talk about the cult of celebrity, her novel, and giveaway a copy of Zeroboxer! Today we are delighted to host a guest post from debut author Fonda Lee as we celebrate the…
Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! Ana is finishing her journey to Brazil, Thea is enjoying the sunshine, so let’s get down to business, shall we? This Week on The Book Smugglers: On Monday, we kick off the week with…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
It’s Friday, which means we are over at Kirkus for our regular weekly column! Today, Thea reviews the third book in the ongoing historical fantasy series the Memoirs of Lady Trent: Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan. This…
Decoding the Newbery is a monthly column in which Newbery Medal winners are examined and deconstructed by regular contributor and author Catherine Faris King. This month, we examine 2015 Newbery Medal winner, The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Basketball Rule…
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Old School Wednesdays Dark Tower Reread: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
Old School Wednesdays presents Thea’s epic reread of The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. May we be well-met, fellow traveler. THIS MONTH ON THE DARK TOWER: The Drawing of the Three is one sweet, action-packed, world-spanning, drug-smuggling, gun-toting,…
The results for our April Old School Wednesdays Readalong are in! After a week of voting, the book we will be reading is A Bride’s Story by Kaoru Mori. Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk…
