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Zombie Appreciation Week: Wrap up

By On February 28, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week

We have come to the end of another Appreciation Week and it is time for a confession. When Thea first came up with the idea of a Zombie Appreciation Week quite a few months ago, I wasn’t very enthused. Unlike her, I was (note the past tense here?) not a fan of zombies and never [...]

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Zombie Appreciation Week: Interview & Giveaway with Mark Henry

By On February 27, 2009 · 24 Comments · In Chat With an Author, Giveaways, Joint Review, Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week

To cap off our Zombie Appreciation Week, we bring you an interview and giveaway with the fabulous Mark Henry, author of the recently reviewed Happy Hour of the Damned and Road Trip of the Living Dead. Although it took us a while to read these bad boys, we absolutely loved Amanda Feral’s bitchy, [...]

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Zombie Appreciation Week – Book Review: Road Trip of the Living Dead by Mark Henry

By On February 26, 2009 · 4 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week

Title: Road Trip of the Living Dead

Author: Mark henry

Genre: Urban Fantasy, Zombies, Comedy

Publisher: Kensington Press
Publication Date: February 2009
Trade Paperback: 288 Pages

Stand Alone or Series: Book 2 in the Amanda Feral series

Why did I read the book: We had been saving Mark Henry’s books for our [...]

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Zombie Appreciation Week – Book Review: Happy Hour of the Damned by Mark Henry

By On February 26, 2009 · 3 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week

Title: Happy Hour of the Damned

Author: Mark Henry

Genre: Urban Fantasy, Zombies, Comedy

Publisher: Kensington Press
Publication Date: March 2008
Trade Paperback: 288 Pages

Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Amanda Feral series (currently 2 books strong).

Why did I read this book: I’ve actually had this on my [...]

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Zombie Appreciation Week – Book Review: Zombie Haiku by Ryan Mecum

By On February 25, 2009 · 3 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week

Title: Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your…Brains

Author: Ryan Mecum

Genre: Poetry (Haiku), Zombies, Horror, Humor

Publisher: How Books
Publication Date: July 2008
Paperback: 160 pages

Stand alone or series: Stand alone collection of haiku in a purported journal.

Summary: (from Amazon.com)
What you are looking at is a document from [...]

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Zombies Appreciation Week – Graphic Novel Review: The Walking Dead Volume #1 by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore

By On February 25, 2009 · 3 Comments · In 10 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week

Title: The Walking Dead Volume 1 – Days Gone Bye

Author: Written by Robert Kirkman/ Art by Tony Moore

Genre: Comics / Horror / Zombies

Publisher: Image Comics
Publishing Date: May, 2004
Paperback: 144 pages

Stand Alone/ Series : On-going monthly series.

Why did I read the book: It was part of [...]

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Zombie Appreciation Week – Book Review: Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

By On February 25, 2009 · 9 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week

Title: Generation Dead

Author: Daniel Waters

Genre: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult, Zombies

Publisher: Hyperion Books (DBG)
Publication Date: May 2008
Hardcover: 400 pages

Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Generation Dead series. Book 2, Kiss of Life, releases in May.

Why did I read this book: In up-and-coming author

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Zombie Appreciation Week: Zombies in Film

By On February 24, 2009 · 7 Comments · In Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week

Yesterday we gave you a good long look at the evolution of zombies in the film genre, highlighting some pivotal films. I could wax poetical all day about Romero’s movies, but the zombie movie has a lot of other goodness to offer. Instead of repeating what I talked about yesterday (or during Halloween [...]

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Zombie Appreciation Week: Ana’s Movie Marathon

By On February 24, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week

When it was decided that this Zombie Appreciation Week was going ahead I was sent an email by Thea with the subject line: Ana’s Zombie Homework with a list of stuff I had to watch and read for the week. I trembled inside. I had no problems with reading the books – heck, I was [...]

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Zombie Appreciation Week: A Brief History of the Zombie

By On February 23, 2009 · 6 Comments · In Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week

Zombies in film have come a very long way since their inception in the early 1930s–from under the control of diabolical voodoo priests, to infectious shambling swarms, to talking & sentient creatures, to Olympic speed sprinters. With all the variations out there, we thought it would be a good idea to pay homage to them, [...]

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