Our movie reviewing Smuggler, Lavanya Narasimhan, is back with the scoop on The Amazing Spiderman Sneak Peek Fan Event. Give it up for Lavanya, folks!
A few days ago, my friend invited me to go to a “sneak peak” preview of The Amazing [...]
Today’s guest is Kendare Blake, newbie writer, whose debut Anna Dressed in Blood has been positively reviewed all over the place (our own review is to be posted later today). As part of our Halloween celebrations, we have invited the author to talk about her fave Halloween movies.
Joint Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Title: Ready Player One
Author: Ernest Cline
Genre: Science Fiction, Gaming
Publisher: Crown (US)/Century (UK)
Publication date: August 16 2011
Hardcover/Paperback: 384 pages
It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Sunday!
Giveaway Winners:
We have two winners to announce for our Poison Diaries giveaway! The lucky winners are…
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Congratulations! You know the drill. Send us an email (contact AT thebooksmugglers DOT com) with your snail mail address, and we’ll get your [...]
Howdy!! *breaks out the vuvuzelas* Final day of the World Cup! Are you Team Spain? or Team Netherlands? Before we get into full football mode, a few bits and bobs:
Giveaway Winners:
The two winners of a copy each of Bonds of Justice by Nalini Singh are:
Last year, it was the glorious What’s Your Scott and Jean event – in which several geeky bloggers got together to talk about their geek sacred cow. Now, the good folks at Alert Nerd are back with another Mega-Blog Crossover Event. And this year, the theme is…..True Geek Confessions:
It’s Alert Nerd Day at The Book Smugglers! Today we take a look at Alert Nerd Press – an independent digital publisher dedicated to making geek-centric fiction and nonfiction for the discriminating nerd, both online and in print.
Title: Unconventional
Author: Matt Springer
Genre: Contemporary, Fiction, Geek-lit
Publisher: [...]
January means the return of all good things–and LOST is back tonight!!!!!!!!
Tonight at 9/8 central is a two-hour premiere (not counting that stupid clip show, which begins at 8/7c if you’re interested) with episodes titled “Because You Left” and “The Lie”.
Here’s the official release from ABC (spoiler free):
THE REMAINING SURVIVORS START [...]
Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahh, the holidays. The time of frantic, scrambling blind panic for gifts, hearty eating, heavy drinking, and most of all–MOVIEGOING!
In the month of December, moviehouses play their best hands, releasing the films they hope will secure golden trophies, either of the Globe or Oscar variety. Needless [...]
Thanks to DarkUfo, we found this brand new look at the upcoming season of Lost!
Isn’t it great? I love it. Love the “Destiny Calls” line, the fact that in the island side of the photo Sawyer is at the center of the picture and Faraday is alive!!! No sign [...]
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