Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge is the weekly recap feature created by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Tara @ 25 Hour Books, where they shamelessly plug each other, share the fantastic posts, giveaways, or whatever else they’ve found and loved by other awesome bloggers (or authors!) during the week, and talk about the books they plan on reading in the coming week. Other people have been joining the party, and now I’ve got my dancing shoes on, too!
Smash Attack Reads Recap
- Must Read Monday: As The World Dies Trilogy by Rhiannon Frater
- Top Ten Tuesdays: All Time Favorite Characters in Books
- Smash Reviews: The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
- Review by Audrey: The Advice Girl by L.A. Shaw
- TGIF: Reading Blues - We all get them from time to time. What helps you overcome those reading slumps when nothing seems to grab your attention?
I visited Amanda for her Blog Birthday and talked about the awesomeness of blogging.
In Real Life (and yes, the internet is real life, too)
After I visit the office Monday to finish up some paperwork and turn in my laptop, I am officially jobless! NOW, I can really start looking for a new job in the ATL and more importantly, a place to live! And do some bloggy stuffs! YAY!
Holy mother of drama, Batman! This past week had hairy drama llamas all up in the joint! I have done my best to stay out of it. I don’t condone plagiarism. Kristi is in the wrong and will need to deal with the consequences of her actions. However, the whole thing got very torches and pitchforks in my opinion. Emotions were high, I get it. Everyone has the right to feel whatever they feel and I don’t deny anyone the right to speak their mind, but from my perspective, the whole debacle was handled poorly. I also don’t condone bullying and harassment. And before you get your panties in a wad, I’m not sticking up for Kristi, don’t know her, have never interacted with her via social networking and have visited her blog maybe 10 times in 2 years. I’ve merely put on my social work hat, and from my professional point of view, the way it was all (and continues to be) handled is exactly why people commit suicide and shoot up schools and shit. Unlikely in this case, but the sad fact is, you never know how people will respond. #JustSayin. #MyOpinion #YouDontLikeItThatsCool
Parajunkee has something great to say about this topic here and here. As does Smexy Books, The Book Lantern and Dark Faeire Tales. On that note, Brianna’s post put me investigative mode. I did some digging and found a nifty WP Plugin (Post URL Plugin) that allows you to post a special notice at the end of every post. You can see mine below. There are also tons of copyright plugins but I’m not keen to disabling right clicks and all that jazz…I am still praying for the day that one of my reviews ends up being quoted in a published book. heh.
Look…Tangent! I got to meet Tahereh Mafi and Veronica Rossi last night. Tahereh is a hoot! Her personality is epic and I love how she is just damn funny naturally. Win! Veronica told me she knew of me, which always blows me away. And they both said they loved the nickname “Smash.” Woot!
Books I Started
Books I Finished
Favorite Quotes of the Week
What had Yileen said about Scarlet? You play with her, you play with Fire. She a third degree burn ready to scald you without a second thought.
Wasn’t that the goddamn truth.
“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Tidbits from around the blogosphere
- Adam from Roof Beam Reader blew me away with this thoughtful and on-point post about the responsibility of book bloggers.
- Shannon from Books Devoured shared about blogger burnout. She’s feeling better and now has a plan, and I’m happy for her that she has moved through it. It is fugly.
- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. I saw this article on Heroes & Heartbreakers, which reminded me that Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter series is being made into a TV series! O. M. Focking. Gawd! ASH ON TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO WILL THEY CHOOSE!?!?! )^%%$&+_()**@%#!!
- YA Highway wrote about how to get an Publishing Internship
- Um, This? Free Four!
Ann Aguirre posted the cover for Outpost, the second installment in the Razorland series. It speaks volumes of what we will find between those covers! AND, if you have not yet read the first book, Enclave, be sure to check back tomorrow for Must Read Monday! Also, there is a novella set in the Razorland world over at Heroes & Heartbreakers. AND, Ann Aguirre is hosting a contest on her blog!
This week has been all about J. L. Bryan! READ. HIS. STUFF.
Search terms
- jeaniene frost vlad: ZOMG! Squee!
- sexy man: SHARE, you fools!
- fantasy story of how life will be without fossil fuels: ohhhh! Like Empty by Suzanne Weyn?
- the fucking walking dead: THIS!
- karen marie moning jzb pov: You mean this? *thud*
- anathema the cloud prophecy trilogy: Good stuff!
- jenny pox plot summary: Um, EPIC focking storytelling! Incredible world-building! Characters you want to smother in love or toss into a volcano! READ J.L. Bryan!
Have a fab week!
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Ooh,nice! I saw that man-candy on Pinterest–a little BDSM with the chains and all. Can’t wait for Ann Aguirre’s Outpost; Enclave was great!
Don’t forget to read the short story!
I am so very jealous you got to meet Tahereh!
Hey! Good luck with the job searching! Should we start Stolen on Tuesday? Do you still have my phone number? We can text each other while reading.
Tahereh is hilarious. I hope you get to meet her some day.
Hmmm. Maybe Tuesday is better. Yes, I have your number still. THAT will be fun!
I thought Tuesday might work better than Monday, since you’re still finishing up some stuff.
Oooh I almost picked up Above. Can’t wait for your review on it.
I have to say, the writing style is annoying as shit. It’s beginning to get easier (I can usually adapt to most styles, use of language) but when I first opened it, I was like WTF?
OMG the owl corkscrew is awesome!! Love the man candy too! Rawr!!
Rawr!
You really know how to end a “recap” post! Hehe! Thanks for the man candy
I have yet to read Ann’s first book, but I’m really loving the cover for Outpost.
That is really cool that you got to meet Tahereh Mafi & Veronica Rossi. I loved both of their books!
Inhale is definitely on my TBR
I always go out with a bang.
READ ENCLAVE! Come back tomorrow. I’ll convince you.
Thanks for the awesome plug in idea! I knew how to do this Blogger but hadn’t figured it out for WP yet!
You are very welcome. And if you did not see this yet, here you go. http://www.fictionvixen.com/wordpress-resources/
Love your fresh perspective always. I’m kind of glad I missed the drama though I was slogging it out in competitive soccer drama instead. Soul sucking. Love all your new extras this week on Clock Rewinders.
I would have preferred soccer drama.
Is my CR becoming too damn long? Be honest.
Um I think I had all these things to say about all of the stuff in this post, great things mind you, and then we got to the end and well…. lol
Sigh those chains remind me of when Ryan Reynolds was chained down in the Blade movie.
Maybe Man Candy of the Week should go at the top…?
And YES. That image of Ryan is an all-time fav! Yowza!
I think he’d be more comfortable if someone *cough*kelly*cough* removed those chains for him.
I don’t know if they’ll be able to cast Ash to my satisfaction.
I’m with you on the response to The Story Siren Scandal. In this respect, bloggers can be a lot like kids. They use others’ bad behavior to justify cruelty.
Pffft. Why does Kelly get that job?
I agree with the Ash casting. Who can live up to him? It’s just…major shoes to fill.
It was a bit sickening…
I think a better question is… Why wouldn’t Kelly get that job?
*slides up next to Mr. Man Candy with my gropey fingers*
Kelly gets the job because she shouted “LOOK OVER THERE!” and while we were looking, she got to him first.
*sigh* I suppose she would pull out some sneaky tactic…
Kelly gets all the smexy jobs…hmph.
Did you read the Razorland short story? OMG! SO GOOD! I just want to dive back into that world in the biggest freaking way!
-pauses to stare at the man candy-
And the cover to Outpost… EEEEEE!
I plan to read it before I go to sleep today, I think. It’s open in my browser. Woot!
Acheron on TV – HOW IN THE HELL DID I FRICKIN’ MISS THAT?!?!?! yes, I’m yelling… sorry
I really need to un-bury my stupid email and read those H&H emails! I’m going to actually curse if it’s on HBO…. grrrr
“Word” on the drama!
I think the show is focusing on Nick’s series, so it won’t be all smexified, but still!
Oh, the teen ones? The Nick Chronicles? I like those…though I’m not a fan of Kody.
Yessum. I’ve only read the first one, but hope to read them all one day.
Wow! There was a lot going on in this blog post. I like what you had to say about allowing people to move on from mistakes. I wonder if some of the continued vitriol stems from the appearance of hypocrisy and an apology that was a bit wanting? I’m sure this will blow over soon. So how would you feel if parts of your reviews showed up in published novels? LOL
I look forward to your review of Wallflower. I really enjoyed it.
Love your first owl of the week!
There is a lot. I’m cutting out some things…
I would be SO happy if part of my review showed up anywhere, really.
Wallflower review is live tomorrow! ♥
After I read the first comments on Kristi’s and other people’s blogs and then later realized that the actual victims got hatemail I felt so sick.. Very glad that there is such a huge amount of bloggers who do not condone plagiarism and stand true to that!
I’d say something about the rest of your post but I’m staring at the nekkid man as I am writing this. Excuse me.
Patricia // My Week in Review
Ugh, I cannot believe ppl sent hate mail to the victims. So focking childish. The whole damn thing.
And you are so welcome.
Can I just say that I want people to find my site by searching for the same interesting things they do when they find yours? LOL. I guess I’m going to have to start blogging a bit about sexy men and the jzb pov. Yum.
Anyhoodles, thanks for stopping by today. <3
♥JJ iReads♥
LOL! You should read some of the search terms I get! I am baffled by how some of them lead to me…lol
Warning: Not safe for work! Whoo, I had to scroll real fast past that picture! I have the first Rhiannon Frater book but haven’t had a chance to get into it yet. Thanks for the owl cuteness. I fits so I sits, love it!
Ooopsie…my bad. Should I put a NSFW message up? lol
READ THE FIRST DAYS!