Welcome to Smugglivus 2013! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2013, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2014. Who: Sally Jane Thompson , prolific comics writer and illustrator whose first full-length graphic novel Atomic Sheep was published this year (Ana’s review). Give it up for Sally Jane, everyone! As a kid, I had a few reading rituals. At the library I would flip to the last page of the books I picked up, to see if they went somewhere interesting. If I wanted to know how they got there. And I used to feel that by picking up a novel and beginning to read it, I had signed some sort of unseen contract, and was duty-bound to finish. This has meant some pretty tedious, dragged out, on-again-off-again reading, with a sprinkling of guilt over small piles of books languishing for months by my bed in the hopes I’d at some point muster enough interest to finish them. This was a good novel-reading year for me. This year, my reading life sagging a bit under the weight of busyness, I decided that a) […]