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The Waste Lands

What She Said: The Waste Lands and Devil’s Kiss

By On February 4, 2011 · 7 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews, What She Said

Today we bring you the latest installment in our feature, “What She Said…” in which we both review books that the other has already read and reviewed. The idea arose because of the dilemma that if one of us reads and reviews a book, the other can’t really post again about it, right? WRONG! [...]

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On The Smugglers’ Radar

By On November 14, 2009 · 4 Comments · In On the Radar

“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 [...]

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Halloween Week Guest Post: Meljean Brook Talks ‘Silver Bullet’

By On October 28, 2009 · 7 Comments · In Guest Blogger, Halloween Week

For our next stop on Halloween Week, we have the fabulous paranormal romance/urban fantasy author Meljean Brook over for a guest post!

We are unabashed Meljean fangirls – so when we were inviting folks over for Halloween, she was one of the first names that [...]

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On The Smugglers’ Radar

By On October 11, 2009 · 10 Comments · In On the Radar

For the past few months, we have been including an “On our Radar” section in our weekly stash 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 [...]

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The Dare: Ana reads The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

By On September 19, 2009 · 6 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews, The Dare

Title: The Drawing of the Three

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Fantasy/Horror

Publisher: New English Library
Publishing Date: New Edition – 2003
Paperback: 496 pages

Stand alone or series: book 2 in the Dark Tower series

Summary:Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors which open to 1980s America, where he [...]

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Smugglers Stash and News

By On September 13, 2009 · 8 Comments · In Smugglers Stash

Hello there! Are we ready for another stash? Here we go!

Oh, oopsie. How did this happen? (And how could we forget Dean in our Bad Boy Weekend Poll yesterday??? Jaysus. Bad Smugglers, Bad Smugglers ).

Ok, ok, let’s get to work!

This Week On The Book Smugglers:

On Monday, we [...]

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Book Review Double Feature: Gone and Hunger by Michael Grant

By On June 12, 2009 · 25 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Gone and Hunger

Author: Michael Grant

Genre: Young Adult, Horror, Speculative Fiction

Publisher: Harper TEEN
Publication Dates: Gone – June 2008; Hunger – May 2009
Hardcover: Gone – 576 pages; Hunger – 608 pages

Stand alone or series: Books 1 and 2 in the Gone series by Michael Grant.

Why [...]

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Smugglivus Feats of Strength: Ana reads The Talisman by Stephen King

By On January 5, 2009 · 1 Comment · In 6 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Smugglivus, The Dare

Title: The Talisman

Author: Stephen King and Peter Straub

Genre: Fantasy with a few elements of horror.

Stand Alone/ Series: Stand Alone but there is a sequel of sorts with an adult Jack Sawyer titled Black House

Summary: Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey [...]

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Guest Dare: It by Stephen King

By On December 22, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Book Reviews, Guest Dare, The Dare

For this month’s dare we invited Marg from Reading Adventures – we invited Marg because, well, she explain it all in her post. Here it goes:

Title: It

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Horror

Stand alone/Series: Stand Alone

Why Did We Pick This Book For The Dare: This is one of Thea’s [...]

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Halloween Week – It: The Book Smugglers’ Interview Review

By On October 31, 2008 · 13 Comments · In 1 Rated Books, 10 Rated Books, Halloween Week

Thea: So, now you’ve read one of my Desert Island Keepers! What was your first impression of the novel?

Ana:

Astonishment.

I started reading it with not a small amount of trepidation. Not only this was my first full length Stephen King novel (not counting The Gunslinger which is so short – I loved [...]

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