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September 2008

7 Rated Books

Anthology Review: The Magical Christmas Cat

Title: The Magical Christmas Cat Authors: Lora Leigh, Nalini Singh, Linda Winstead Jones and Erin McCarthy Genre: Paranormal Romance Stand Alone/ Series: It can be read as a stand alone but at least two of the stories (Nalini Singh’s…

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Mercy Thompson: Homecoming

This is too cool for words. Fans of Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson books might have heard the good news that Dabel Brothers Publishing will be releasing a 4-part comic book miniseries based on the books this November, titled Mercy…

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Monday Minis! Miniseries Review: N.

Title: N. Produced by Scribner, CBS Mobile Entertainment, Marvel Comics & Stephen King; Based on the short story by Stephen King; Art by Alex Maleev and Jose Villarrubia; Adapted by Marc Guggenheim and Stephen King Summary: (from SimonSays.com)Master storyteller…

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Monday Minis! Miniseries Review: Lost in Austen

Title: Lost in Austen Produced by: UK’s ITV, 4 episodes, aired between 3rd and 24th September 2008 Main Cast and characters: Jemima Rooper as Amanda Price, Alex Kingston as Mrs Bennet,Hugh Bonneville as Mr Bennet, Elliot Cowan as Fitzwilliam…

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Smugglers Weekly Stash and News

Ahoy sea dogs an’ land lubbers! Another excitin’ weekend comes t’ a close, an’ we be havin’ another stash. First things first–we be havin’ a winner! The winner of Seduce Me at Sunrise, concluding our Lisa Kleypas week, is….…

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Lisa Kleypas Week – The Wallflowers

In 2005, Lisa Kleypas started a new historical romance series. Four very different women find that they are routinely ignored and shunned by London society for various reasons. Annabelle is beautiful, yet destitute; Lillian and her sister Daisy are…

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Lisa Kleypas Week!

We will start this post by saying: Lisa Kleypas is one of the best romance novels writers out there and one of our favourites. Her stories are well-written and well-researched but above all, her stories have heart. It is…

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Giveaway Winners!

We had a record number of entries for these contests and some very nice comments about our blog: a HUGE THANK YOU to everybody that left a comment. Now, without further ago, the winners have been randomly picked by…

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BBAW – Fantasy Draft Style

Inspired by Kmont’s wonderful post, we Book Smugglers decided to have our very own book blogger appreciation post, in honor of Book Blogger Appreciation Week. To keep things fun, we decided to do this Fantasy Draft style. Five picks…

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Joint Review: The Key

Title: The Key Author: Pauline Baird Jones Genre: Science Fiction Romance Stand Alone or Series: Stand alone novel, although with potential for a sequel. Why did we read this book: Pauline dropped us an email and graciously provided review…

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Book Review: Manhunter vol. 2: Trial By Fire

Title: Manhunter vol. 2: Trial By Fire Author: Mark Andreyko, art by Javier Pina, Jesus Saiz, and others Genre: Graphic Novel Stand Alone or Series: Collects issues #6-14 of DC’s latest incarnation of Manhunter Summary: (from DCcomics.com)Don’t miss this…

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Book Review: Gale Force

Title: Gale Force Author: Rachel Caine Genre: Urban Fantasy Stand alone or series: Book 7 of the Weather Warden series. Why did I read this book: Rachel Caine’s Weather Warden series is one of my top 3 all time…

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Smugglers Weekly Stash

Happy Sunday!!! So, not a lot of news today, just a couple of announcements, some pimpage and something about the Batman comics brought to our attention by Katiebabs. Pimpage: Our good friend and powerpuff girl comrade is starting her…

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