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June 2008

Neil Gaiman Week

Gaiman Week: The Sandman #14 (Mini Review)

The Sandman Vol. 2 – The Doll’s House Part V: “Collectors” As Ana has pointed out, very detailed-like, The Sandman series is a groundbreaking, all-encompassing work of literature and art. Ana has thoroughly detailed the major characters with her…

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Neil Gaiman Week

Neil Gaiman Week: An Introduction

Ana and I are huge fans of Neil Gaiman–who isn’t? If you haven’t read one of his novels, graphic novels, short stories, children’s books, or seen his movie and/or tv adaptations, chances are you’ve at least heard the name.…

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Smugglers Stash

Smugglers Weekly Stash and News

Ahoy Mateys! First and foremost let us announce the winner of Shades of Dark, picked randomly by our Sorting Hat: Angieville Please send your address to thebooksmugglers (at) hotmail (dot).com An Announcement: After months in the making and much…

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Dungeons

From Thea’s Dungeon…

For this episode’s unearthings: The Fighting Fantasy book series, from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston First, a bit of background… The Fighting Fantasy books are a gamebook series–and yes, by ‘gamebook’ I mean the reader actively gets to participate…

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6 Rated Books 8 Rated Books Joint Review

Joint Review: Dead to the World

Title: Dead to the World Author: Charlaine Harris Genre: Paranormal mystery, Urban Fantasy Stand Alone / series: Book 3 of Southern Vampires Mysteries, or Sookie Stackhouse books. Summary: (from barnes&noble.com) When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man…

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6 Rated Books 7 Rated Books Book Reviews Joint Review

Joint Review: Club Dead

Title: Club Dead Author: Charlaine Harris Genre: Paranormal mystery, Urban Fantasy Stand Alone / series: Book 3 of Southern Vampires Mysteries, or Sookie Stackhouse books. Summary (from barnes&noble.com)Sookie’s boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she’s off…

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Giveaways Smugglers Stash

Smugglers Weekly Stash and News

An Announcement: We will be having another super-ultra special event this weekend: starting on Friday with our pre-release joint review of Shades of Dark (the sequel to Gabriel’s Ghost) by Linnea Sinclair, which comes out in July. Also on…

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Tagged!

So…checking out the always wonderful Fantasy Cafe, we found out we’ve been TAGGED! Here’s the deal: Get yourself to the nearest book, flip to page 123, and copy the 5th sentence out here… Thea’s: Closest book to me at…

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Giveaways

Winners of Your Scandalous Ways giveaway

Our Sorting Hat hath spoken and the winners of the Your Scandalous Ways giveaway are: Itanaidajessewave Congratulations to the lucky winners! Please email your address to: thebooksmugglers (at) hotmail (dot) com And a big thank you to everyone that…

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Book Reviews

Book Review: Blood Engines

Title: Blood Engines Author: T.A. Pratt Genre: Urban Fantasy Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Marla Mason series Summary: (from amazon.com)Meet Marla Mason–smart, saucy, slightly wicked witch of the East Coast.… Sorcerer Marla Mason, small-time guardian of…

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An Earnest Letter

Dear Mr. M. Night Shyamalan; This weekend I went to the opening showing of your latest film, The Happening. I should let you know that I have seen all of your movies. I was enthralled with your wonderful debut,…

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7 Rated Books Book Reviews

Book Review: Kitty Goes to Washington

Title: Kitty Goes to Washington Author: Carrie Vaughn Genre: Urban Fantasy Stand alone or Series: Book 2 in the Kitty Norville series Summary: (from amazon.com)Celebrity werewolf and late-night radio host Kitty Norville prefers to be heard and not seen.…

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Smugglers Stash

Smugglers Weekly Stash and News

A Couple of Announcements: Stay tuned for our event A Long Weekend with Loretta Chase. It starts this Thursday 19th (my birthday tee hee) with a review of Your Scandalous Ways. Then on Friday we will have a most…

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Weekend Poll

Nonsensical Weekend Poll

For this week’s ponderings: Which badass dude is your favorite? Fight Club, Tyler Durden – “The first rule about fight club is you do not talk about fight club.” Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle – “You talkin’ to me? You…

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7 Rated Books Book Reviews

Book Review: An Accidental Goddess

Title: An Accidental Goddess Author: Linnea Sinclair Review number: 60 Genre: Romance Sci-fi Stand Alone/ Series: Stand Alone Summary: Raheiran Special Forces captain Gillaine Davré has just woken up in some unknown space way station, wondering where the last…

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8 Rated Books Book Reviews

Book Review: Demon Angel

Title: Demon Angel Author: Meljean Brook Genre: Paranormal Romance Stand Alone or Series: Book 2 of The Guardians series (although each book can be read as a stand alone volume) Summary: (from meljeanbrook.com)For two thousand years, Lilith wrought vengeance…

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