Today we are delighted to launch a new column here on The Book Smugglers! Starting in April, “Decoding the Newbery” will be a monthly column taking a look at Newbery Medal winners and will be hosted by our new…
Giveaways Inspirations and Influences
The Walls Around Us Giveaway: Nova Ren Suma on Inspirations & Influences
In which Nova Ren Suma talks about teenage ghosts and her new novel, The Walls Around Us. We Book Smugglers are huge fans of Nova Run Suma’s work. Both of us loved her YA novel Imaginary Girls – a…
Book Reviews Old School Wednesdays
Old School Wednesdays: The Grey King (The Dark is Rising Sequence #4) by Susan Cooper
Ana has been reading The Dark Is Rising Sequence for the past few months. Today, she takes on book 4, The Grey King. Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smugglers feature. We came up with the idea towards…
In which we give away copies of Rachel Hartman’s Seraphina and companion novel, Shadow Scale Today we are thrilled to be a part of the Shadow Scale Blog Tour, celebrating the release of Rachel Hartman’s long-awaited and highly anticipated…
The Glass Sentence has a fascinating premise with an intricate and ambitious world-building around it. Even though at times said world-building – given its scope – encounters inevitable hurdles and fails to live up to its full potential, my…
Hello everyone and Happy Sunday to all! This week was not cool, friends. It gave us a lot of heartbreak and headache. Andrew Smith, Systemic Sexism and the Call for Kindness: If you were not on Twitter or around…
We are thrilled to post an excerpt from Walter Mosley’s newest novel, Inside a Silver Box ABOUT THE BOOK Inside a Silver Box by Walter Mosley Published by Tor Available now In Inside a Silver Box, two people brought…
It’s Friday, which means we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana reviews a short novel that has been receiving a lot of good buzz in the UK. Despite Ana’s reservations about one aspect of the story, Elysium by Jennifer…
Bone Gap is a book about perspective. About the difference between looking and seeing. About fairytales, self-image, the heavy burden that beauty can be and the pernicious ways we look at and treat women. It’s awfully tense and there…
Book Reviews Old School Wednesdays
Old School Wednesdays Dark Tower Reread: The Gunslinger 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. Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smugglers feature. We came up with the idea towards the end…
