From the monthly archives: September 2009
Title: Ariel
Author: Steven R. Boyett
Genre: Speculative Fiction (Sci-Fi/Fantasy), Post-Apocalyptic
Publisher: Ace
Publication Date: January 1983 (original) / August 2009 (re-release)
Paperback: 448 pages
Stand alone or series: When Ariel was first published in 1983, it [...]
Title: A Northern Light (UK Title: A Gathering Light)
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Genre: Historical Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Hartcourt Paperback (US) / Bloomsbury (UK)
Publication Date: April 2003 (US) / June 2003 (UK)
Paperback: 408 [...]
Title: Tempt Me At Twilight
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Genre: Historical Romance
Publisher: St Martin’s/Piatkus Books
Publishing Date: September 22 (US) / October 1 (Uk)
Paperback: 384 pages
Stand alone or series: Book 3 in the Hathaway series, but can be read as stand alone
Summary:Engaged to the very sensible [...]
Happy Sunday, everyone! I kindly want to kick off this week’s edition of our Sunday Stash to say…
MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! As of this instant, UCLA has a better football record than USC. Suck it Trojans. SUCK IT!
Ahem. [...]
…THE BOOK SMUGGLERS! (and no, we didn’t steal any awards from sweet, defenseless teenage girls)
The Book Smugglers have been bestowed with not one but TWO (!?!?!?!) awards for Book Blogger Appreciation Week:
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 Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors which open to 1980s America, where he [...]
Title: Perfume (Das Parfum)
Author: Patrick Suskind, Translated by John E. Woods
Genre: Fiction, Historical, Thriller
Publisher: Diogenes-Verlag (Germany) / Alfred A. Knopf (US)
Publication Date: 1985 (Germany) / February 2001 (US)
Paperback: 272 pages
Stand alone or [...]
Title: Liar
Author: Justine Larbalestier
Genre: YA/Thriller
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books
Publishing Date: September 29, 2009
Hardcover: 384 pages
Stand alone or series: Stand alone
Summary: Micah will freely admit that she’s a compulsive liar, but that may be the one honest thing she’ll ever tell you. Over the years she’s [...]
Today we are supposed to talk about our goals for our blog, to say what we like best about it, and to explain where would we like our blog to be one year from now. Given how there seem to be a plethora of Blogging Agendas and Manifesto posts popping up across [...]
Today’s suggested BBAW topic is:
Today we encourage you to blog about a book you read only because you discovered it on another book blog. Preferably, this will be a book you loved! You might also write a bit about the blog you discovered it on!
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