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…
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“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…
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…
Reading Comics: Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More by Kelly Sue DeConnick and David López
Marvel’s recently announced plans to release a Captain Marvel movie, sparked a new interest in a character I knew nothing about beyond the fact that I always associated Captain Marvel with its male incarnations. Cue me being super excited…
Announcing the Editors for Speculative Fiction 2015 & Call for Submissions
In which we announce the editors for the 2015 edition of the award-winning collection Speculative Fiction. As you probably know by now, we are the new publishers of the ongoing editions of Speculative Fiction: The Best Online Reviews, Essays…
In which we have many words about the 2015 Hugo Nominations. Hello everyone and Happy Sunday – for those who celebrate Easter, Happy Easter! For those who observe Passover, Happy Passover! And for those of us who are speculative…
“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…