From the monthly archives: March 2009

When a Dame Visits

By On March 22, 2009 · 3 Comments · In Miscellaneous

Yesterday I received a VIP for dinner. It was one of the Deadline Dames, our Good Friend, Official Honorary Book Smuggler, Pimp Extraordinnaire and as of yesterday, one of Ana’s Soul Mates, Karen Mahoney.

I was super nervous, couldn’t sleep. I mean, how do you prepare yourself and your house to welcome [...]

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The One Where Ana Talks About Stuff A.K.A The Stash

By On March 22, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Smuggler Specialties, Smugglers Stash, Windflower World Tour

Ana here! Thea is still away (sniff!sniff!) but she found a way to formally reprimand me (by way of smoke signals no less, seriously is there anything that woman can not do?) for my huge boo-boo in last week’s stash when I announced I would be writing my review of Smooth Talking Stranger last week [...]

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Lost Recap: 05 x 08 LaFleur

By On March 21, 2009 · 9 Comments · In Popgeekery

Are you ready for this? Because, ladies and gentlemen, this week it is FINALLY Sawyer’s turn after I don’t know how many episodes, the Man, the Legend, my Favorite character out of Lost gets an episode.

The paragraph above should have prepared you for what is to come but in case it is not clear, [...]

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Interview and Giveaway with Carrie Ryan

By On March 20, 2009 · 39 Comments · In Chat With an Author, Giveaways

When word about Forest of Hands and Teeth started to spread over the net, Thea grew more and more impatient to get her greedy hands on it. She finally did and she loved it . And we have to thank our good friend Karen Mahoney – official honorary Book Smuggler and pimp extraordinaire [...]

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Book Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

By On March 19, 2009 · 18 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Author: Carrie Ryan

Genre: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult, Apocalyptic Fiction, Zombies

Publisher: Delacorte Books
Publication Date: March 2009
Hardcover: 320 pages

Stand alone or series: Can be read as a stand alone novel, but a sequel will be released in Spring 2010.

Why did I [...]

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The One Where We Are Not Here….

By On March 18, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Miscellaneous

…. Because we are guests at Jessica’s Racy Romance Reviews answering The Inaugural Racy Romance Questionnaire Extraordinaire: we were forced to answer to 13 dastardly questions by this person:

so anything we said was under coercion and are subject to revision (especially the part about world domination).

Meanwhile we have our [...]

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Guest Dare: Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair

By On March 18, 2009 · 21 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Guest Blogger, Guest Dare, Smuggler Specialties, The Dare

Every month we dare another book blogger to read a book that is outside their comfort zone and invite them to post their reviews or thoughts here. This month our guest is AnimeJune from the great blog Gossamer Obsessions. She writes reviews that are very detailed, very critical and with a keen sense of [...]

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Our Blog is Fabulous!

By On March 17, 2009 · 9 Comments · In Popgeekery, Smugglers Ponderings

Mamma Mia! We got a Your Blog is Fabulous award from 4 awesome blogs: Books Lists Life, Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review, Dark Wolf and Grasping from the Wind!

Thea and Ana – 20 years from now. The new Edina and Patsy?

THANK YOU all for the award [...]

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Book Review: Into the Forest by Jean Hegland

By On March 16, 2009 · 7 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Into the Forest

Author:Jean Hegland

Genre: Literature, Fiction, Apocalyptic

Publisher: Dial Press
Publication Date: September 1998
Trade Paperback: 256 pages

Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel.

Why did I read this book: I love apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and saw this book while browsing the section on amazon. How could [...]

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The One Where Ana Is Left Alone

By On March 15, 2009 · 15 Comments · In Smugglers Ponderings, Smugglers Stash

I am supposed to be writing a Stash post right now but you see, Thea is NOT here.

What is it that they say again? “When the cat’s away the mice will play”? I really feel like rambling about assorted things instead of writing a cohesive post about upcoming stuff. I don’t feel cohesive at [...]

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