Welcome to Smugglivus 2016! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2016, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2017, and more. Next on Smugglivus 2016, please give it up to Anna Hight, author of “Ruby” a wonderful short story published with The Book Smugglers’ Quarterly Almanac Volume 2. Well, 2016 happened. Yeah. And yet, there were a few things about this dumpster fire of a year that are worth mentioning. I tried to cultivate a list of things that stood out for me in 2016, or things I discovered this year that made the bad stuff just a little more bearable. Here we go! ? Stranger Things: A love letter to Dungeons & Dragons, and to the horror and science fiction – Alien, Close Encounters, ET, The Shining – of the 70s and 80s. I grew up swiping my mother’s Stephen King novels and reading them in my closet with a flashlight, so I knew this show was for me. If you are one of the two people left in the country who have not seen Stranger Things, come the heck on. What are you […]