Welcome to Smugglivus 2013! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2013, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2014. Who: Kristen Kittscher…
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Ah, Smugglivus, we meet again, our old friend! It’s almost unthinkable that 2013 has basically come and gone, and it’s already time to once again start our month-long celebration of all things bookish and geeky! But here we are:…
Today we bring you the latest installment in our feature, “What She Said…” in which we both review books that the other has previously read and reviewed. This feature arose because of a very serious dilemma we faced at…
Hello everyone, and a hearty happy holidays to you all! We hope you had a fantastic break with family and friends, and are ready to celebrate 2013 in style. This is our final week of Smugglivus, so hold on…
It’s nearly December (OMG is that 2013 we see in the horizon?), it’s cold and dark outside, but over here at Smugglers HQ, we’re all tingly excitement and joyful expectation. For tomorrow, December 1st, we officially kick-start our month…
Title: Ghost Country Author: Patrick Lee Genre: Speculative Fiction, Thriller Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: January 2011 Paperback: 352 pages For decades, inexplicable technology has passed into our world through the top secret anomaly called the Breach. The latest device…
Hello folks! Happy Sunday! As we finally bid Smugglivus goodbye, we’ve also got a ton of stuff happening this week, so let’s get down to business… Giveaway Winner: The winner of 2 books chosen by Ana from her Top…
When you are having fun and you love what you are doing, you don’t feel that time is passing. It’s been officially 4 years of Book Smuggling but we feel like we’ve barely started. We keep having new ideas,…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2011! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2011, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2012. Who: Veronica Roth,…
Feel the chill in the air? That delicious tingle of anticipation? It’s not just the Holidays and promise of presents and delicious, gluttonous amounts of food. Tomorrow, December 1st, we kick-start our month long celebrations of all things bookish…
Howdy folks, Ana here! Hope y’all having a great weekend. We’ve been quite busy lately as we are getting ready for Smugglivus – all invitations have been sent, a teaser poster has been created, we came up with an…
Smugglivus is here (er, almost…)! Tomorrow, December 1st, we kick-start Smugglivus. What the heck is Smugglivus? For newer readers and those of you that are unfamiliar with the event, Smugglivus is our month-long (ok, technically it’s about five weeks…
Olá! Ana here, writing from Brazil where I am spending the holidays with The Family ( I only packed books as you can see…this photo was taken by my sister, horrified that I brought 30 books but forgot to…
Joint Review: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Title: Beautiful Creatures Author: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Genre: Fantasy, Gothic, Romance, Young Adult Publisher: Little, Brown (Hachette) Publication Date: December 2009 Hardcover: 576 pages Stand alone or series: Book 1, with a sequel underway How did we…
On December 1st, we officially kick-off Smugglivus, our month-and-a-bit-long, end of the year, event, now in its second year. Inspired by Seinfeld’s Festivus, Smugglivus starts on Dec 1st and ends on Jan 7th , the date of our second…
Hi-yo! Another weekend, another stash. First, a few announcements… Giveaway Winner: The lucky winner of a copy of M.L.N. Hanover’s Darker Angels, book 2 in The Black Sun’s Daughter series, is… LoriT! (Comment #23) Congratulations! You know the drill…
Title: The Drawing of the Three Author: Stephen King Genre: Fantasy/Horror Publisher: New English Library Publishing Date: New Edition – 2003 Paperback: 496 pages Stand alone or series: book 2 in the Dark Tower series Summary:Roland of Gilead, the…
After seemingly countless days of pre-countdown, followed by 25 days of countdown craziness with authors guest blogging and more giveaways than we can count, we finally made it! Smugglivus is here!!! Hooray!!! So what will happen next? For the…
Smugglivus Joint Review: The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt
Title: The Court of the Air Author: Stephen Hunt Genre: Fantasy, Steampunk Stand alone or series: First novel in the series, but can be read as a stand alone. Why did we read this book: A few months back,…
If you are a regular around these shores you may have noticed that in the past few weeks we have been talking about something called…Smugglivus. Cryptic posts, shout outs, and the sidebar widget that changes every three days with…
Another weekend comes to a close, but worry not! We have another busy week ahead. First, some housekeeping… Thanks to Julia Quinn for stopping by for the lovely chat! And we have our winners–drumroll please– Barbara and Kara You…
“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…
In which we participate in the #100dayproject with a Book Smuggler twist. Hello, everyone! Over the past year or two, you may have heard of something called The 100 Days Project, spearheaded by Elle Luna–a 100-day-long movement during which…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their Inspirations and Influences. In this feature, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…
In which we Book Smugglers present our top 10 books of 2015… Ana: Hello, I’m Ana. Thea: And I’m Thea. Ana & Thea: And we are…BOOK SMUGGLERS!!!!!!! *play facemelting riffs on air guitars* We’ve brought you some of our…