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Is anyone else enjoying a Game of Thrones finale party? Big props to HBO for doing such a great job with the first season adaptation of the novel. The question now becomes, what on earth do we do to fill the big ASoIaF-shaped hole in [...]
Howdy folks, and Happy Sunday!
Giveaway Winner:
The lucky winner of a signed copy of Give Up the Ghost is…
Nicole (comment #109)
Congrats! You know the drill – send us an email (contact AT thebooksmugglers DOT com) with your snail mail address, and we will get your winnings to you as soon [...]
Headline, the UK publisher of Stories, the anthology edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, came up with a brilliant idea to celebrate the paperback release this month: they invited a bunch of bloggers, including us, to participate on a round robin short story. Each of us got to write 100 words, following up from [...]
Title: Stories
Authors: Edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio with stories by several authors.
Genre: This is a collection of short stories in a variety of genres.
Publisher: Harper Collins US/ Headline UK
Publishing Date: 1st edition 15 June 2010; paperback to be published April 2011
Hardcover/Paperback: 512 pages
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. This is how the Smugglers’ Radar was born, and because there are far too many books that we want than we [...]
Welcome to another Sunday edition of our Smugglers’ Stash & News.
First up, we’ve got some fan-freakin-tastic news.
Bloomsbury Retracts Cover:
On Thursday afternoon, Bloomsbury officially announced that they will no longer be printing the offending cover of Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore.
Bloomsbury [...]
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. Now back to business.
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It is no secret that we love Neil Gaiman (heck, we even had a full on “Neil Gaiman Appreciation Week” last year). When The Graveyard Book was first released last year (in Hardcover) , we bought it as soon as we could and totally loved it. Since then, the book, which tells [...]
Today the BBAW suggested daily topic is:
Reading Meme
We encourage you to be creative with this! Please choose one or two questions to answer or try to answer all the questions in five words or less. Or choose a picture to answer a question! Brevity is the goal of today!
We chose to [...]
Weekend is nearly over for us in the UK but you guys in the US still have one day off to look forward to! Meanwhile, here is what we have planned this week:
On Monday, Ana reviews The Infinite Instant by Danielle Parker
Tuesday, it’s Thea’s turn and she reviews Heroes at [...]
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