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/authors/publishers/etc during the week, and talk about the books they plan on reading in the coming week.
Smash Attack Reads Recap
- My first Heroes & Heartbreakers post was up last Sunday! Compare and Contrast: Romance Novel and Olympics Heroes
- Recommend A…book with a blue cover
- Bout of Books Mini-Review: Natural Evil by Thea Harrison
- Smash reviews The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
- Bout of Books Mini-Review: Devil’s Gate by Thea Harrison
- Review by Audrey: The House Where Nobody Lived by John Bellairs
- Review by Mel: A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day
- TGIF: Pimp Your Review – Come check out why In the Path of Falling Object by Andrew Smith is worth a read!
In the life of Smash
Smashtastic Stats
Update: 8 out of 21 read. Don’t think I will finish them before August is over, but I will read them until they are DONE.
Update: 16 whole books!
- Read in 2012: 67 - That would be SEVEN more than last week! THANK YOU, BOUT OF BOOKS!
- Finding Magic (Downside Ghosts, #0.5): This novella was just what I needed. Dark and gritty. I really need to finish this series!
- I Hunt Killers (Jasper Dent, #1): Morbidly awesome.
- Pretty When She Dies (Pretty When She Dies, #1): Holy shite! Loved this one. So excited to read the sequel.
- Career Day: I Hunt Killers prequel short.
- Devil’s Gate (Elder Races, #4.6): I love Seremela!
- Natural Evil (Elder Races, #4.5): Full of NOMS.
- Awaken: I re-read it in preparation for sequel blog tour. I cannot wait to read Middle Ground!
- Beauty Queens: Finished the audio book, which just blows the book out of the water. Best audiobook narration evar.
- Currently Reading:
- TBR Physical Pile (Hardcopy + eBook):
- Acquired for Kisten the Kindle: Nada
- Acquired for my bookshelves: Kim from Little Shop of Stories (co-creator of Not So YA Book Club) let me scoop up some ARCs in return for a review to send to publisher. Of course, I haven’t yet read the first books in these series, so I will get on that soon! THANK YOU! ♥
- Ravage, book 3 in Deviants series by Jeff Sampson
- Rage Within, book 2 in Dark Inside series by Jeyn Roberts. I really want to read these!
- Rise, book 3 in Eve series by Anna Carey
Favorite Quotes of the Week
I nudged him. “You awake?”
He heaved a sigh. “I am now.”
“Great! I can’t sleep. Let’s look at baby product catalogs.”
Jeff groaned. “I can remember a time when, if you were waking me up in the middle of the night, it wasn’t to thumb through catalogs.”
“Yes, the result of which is why we need to look at baby catalogs now.”
Tidbits from around the blogosphere
So I didn’t really gather up anything this week due to Bout of Books. I was very anti-internet this week…
Authors/Publishers
- Fail
Bloggers/Bookish Sites
- GalleyCat: The Hunger Games Trilogy Is Bestselling Series Ever on Amazon.com. Really? It beat out Harry Potter? No frakkin way!
- Language Management, LLC: Grammar Awareness and You, Part 2.
- YA Highway: Writing Horror: Making the Crucial Connection
Things that make me smile
- My Owl Barn: DIY: Owl Sculpture!
- LITERARY JUKEBOX. So wicked awesome.
Search terms
- andrew smith in the path of falling objects: Dark, gritty and emotional. Loved it!
- the story of phroomf song: ZOMG! I want to know who was looking for this song! ♥ ♥ ♥
- BOOK SPINE POETRY: I did it for the first time during Bout of Books 4.0
- my bookshelves: Aren’t they pretty?
Favorite Instagram Photos of the Week
Up Next…
- Book Blogger Confessions: Literary Duds you Love and Gems you Loathe
- Cover Reveal: The Vampire Bride series by Rhiannon Frater
- Top Ten Tuesdays: Favorite Books You’ve Read During The Lifespan Of Your Blog
- Smash reviews Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
- Smash reviews I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
- TGIF: Back to School Reading: Which books would you like to see in today’s high school Literature classrooms?
Have a fab week!
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Bwahaha. Alien Proliferation has seriously made me snicker out loud.
I am really looking forward to your review of I Hunt Killers. It looks like a book I might enjoy!
PS. I’m still waiting for cupcakes. Did you have difficulty in finding a hawk shifter?
Hmmm. Maybe that tricky hawk got lost and accidentally ate your cupcake. It’s kinda hard to control them, talons and sharp beaks and all. :/
I really hope you give I Hunt Killers a try. It was horrific and morbid and thrilling. Psychopathology galore.
I am LOVING Alien Proliferation. I just love all the characters, so much. They all have qualities that I just adore. And I NEED a Poof!
Dang. You were a reading dynamo, weren’t you? Love the cat instagram–typical cat, looking very self-satisfied.
I was a reading dynamo. I’m proud.
Kyp was quite pensive in that shot. Heh. It was a rare occasion where he cuddled up with me. He’s a daddy’s boy.
Sqqquuueeeee! (sorry, it fits) you’re reading Alien Prolif!! I love Kitty/Martini and Gini is freakin’ hysterical!! More people need to read that series!! I have to sadly say the next one in the series was blah for me, tho.
Mel is great, love her reviews! I miss MY orange tabby; yours is so pensively adorable
Is he/she British or something? And to summarize how lame I am, I had to look up the meaning of ZOMG!1
Now I have a question related to Top Ten Tuesday… what about favorite books you read BEFORE you blogged? Do you go back and write reviews for those? Just wondering….
Squeeing DOES fit well with this series. I squee a lot. It’s so damn fun and I just adore all of the characters, so much!
Mel IS great and I am ridiculously happy that she is reviewing here. I love reading her thoughts and BSing with her, in a big way. Wicked fun!
Kyo is so pensive in that shot, right? ZOMG, really?
I have a lot of favs before blogging. I swear that one has been done…hmmmm. And no. I would need to reread those books before writing a review, but I like how you think.
Oooh … I Hunt Killers looks awesome! I need to find a good book club. I’m in one, but they read a lot more older books and nothing ever seems to be a good read (to me, at least).
And PB & Honey CUPCAKES? Yummers. Where’s mine?
I missed out on the Book Spine Poetry from BoB this year … I just didn’t have the time! It would’ve been fun, though.
Oh, and AWESOME JOB on the series books for BoB!