Welcome to Smugglivus 2010: Day 32 Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors, bloggers and publishers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2010, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2011. Who: The lovely Carla, who runs the UK-based YA book blog (with the occasional Urban Fantasy/adult title) The Crooked Shelf. Please give a warm welcome to Carla, everyone! WELL HEY THERE Y’ALL Soooooo, this is the first year that i’ve had the honour to take part in Smugglivus. To be frank I still feel a little fan girly that The Book Smugglers actually even know who I am, let alone the fact that i’ve met Ana in real life and we bonded over our mutual love of Mr Alan Ryves (from the Demons Lexicon trilogy by the equally fantastic Sarah Rees Brennan) and Strawberry Bellini’s. 2010 has probably been my best year for reading since, well, FOREVAH, for this was the year that I really got my claws into YA and started to take this whole blogging palaver seriously (I promise I have!). One of the bad things about being severely disorganised? lists make me itch. But lists about books I […]