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
- Recommend A…first book in a series
- Top Ten Tuesdays: Characters I’d Like To Switch Places With For 24 Hours
- Andrew Smith Saturdays: Win The Marbury Lens for September’s Discussion!
- Review by Mel: A Touch of Crimson by Sylvia Day
- Songs of Magic Triple Play!
- TGIF: Book Olympics
In the life of Smash
Um. Life? What Life…? Seriously, I really have nothing much to say about this past week. I cleaned. I studied. I read. I scrapbooked. I ate and slept and all those other daily things.
- I did get to meet some of T’s residency mates at a dinner on Tuesday. It was a yummy Thai dinner and they are all really nice.
- And I had this awesome idea of going to the Thursday night Farmer’s Market even though it was a tad rainy. Little did we know that Flash Flood 2012 was gonna rain down on our asses. Needless to say, we only got a few things before we ran back to the car, through giant puddle rivers and cars splashing us. I just started laughing as I was running back to the car. You just have to laugh in those moments. We were seriously drowned rats. My little umbrella did not stand a chance against those winds! We got some wicked cool purple long beans and some dill and garlic goat cheese though. nomnomnom.
- We visited T’s parents Saturday and had a wonderful lunch.
Smashtastic Stats
Update: One down, a ton to go!
Bout of Books is going to help me takes these suckers down!
Update: 11 whole books!
- Read in 2012: I’m up to 58 now! I’m doing so well, I bumped my goal back up to 100.
- Full Blooded: This book is SO fun! Fab start to a UF series. Review 8/28
- Magisterium: Loved this book! Review 9/4
- Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2): Review 8/22
- Messenger (The Giver, #3): My favorite of the companion books. Review 8/23
- The Ripple Effect (Rhiannon’s Law, #3): My favorite of the series, thus far! Review 8/9
- Currently Reading:
- Blooded (Novella for Full Blooded world)
- I received Eve and Adam from the publisher and started it immediately.
- TBR Physical Pile (Hardcopy + eBook): 460
- Acquired for Kisten the Kindle: NADA, peeps. I’m pretty proud of myself.
- Acquired for my bookshelves: Ordinary Beauty (September Book Club)
- Wishlist: 91
- This and This added a frakload of books to my Dystopian/Post-Ap list.
Favorite Quotes of the Week
”Stop a knife? You’re serious.”
“As a heart attack.”
“You are something else.”
I couldn’t tell if he was giving me a compliment or a veiled insult. “I try to be an individual. It’s all the rage.”
-Rhiannon in The Ripple Effect by J.A. Saare
Tidbits from around the blogosphere
Authors/Publishers
- Thea Harrison won a RITA for DRAGON BOUND! WAHOO!!!
- Galley Cat: Andrea Cremer Inks Erotica Book Deal. Hmmm. I can’t say I’m happy to hear this will be set in the Nightshade Universe.
- Rhiannon Frater signed with Tor for another awesome book. Check out her excitement for Dead Spots.
Bloggers/Bookish Sites
- Word for Teens knocked my socks off with this post: Weird O’Clock: On the Mainstream Success of “Fifty Shades of Grey”
- Karen @ For What It’s Worth talks about getting over her one year reading slump.
- Parajunkee: Book Blogging 101 – Managing our TBR
- Ashley @ Bookish Brunette was featured in Stitch. Read. Cook’s A Day in the Life of feature.
- Rachel @ Fiktshun wrote an incredible post about Bloggers being Consumers, too. Everyone needs to read this one!
- Amanda @ On a Book Bender shares her WordPress Plugins!
Things that make me smile
THE FAB FIVE!
But mainly this chic!
{Flickr: On Being}
Search terms
- the perks of being a wallflower charlie: LOVE HIM!
- review the boy in the striped pajamas: Read it.
- blood bound rachel vincent: SO GOOD!
- kill them with kindness inspirational stories: This search term led to the only short story I’ve ever written.
- silly penis is always standing up in the morning, i push him down: Ha. Hilarious little Jack!
- the eleventh plague setting: It reminded me of The Book of Eli.
- shadow and bone darkling: DARKLING!
- dystopian world building: It is a favorite setting of mine, for sure.
- where can i read the weather warden series: This better not be a book piracy search! You can read about them here though! I may have gushed a bit.
Favorite Instagram Photo of the Week
I am the most interesting cat in the world.
Up Next…
- Book Blogger Confessions: Making money off your blog
- Top Ten Tuesdays: Most Vivid Worlds/Settings In Books
- Blog Tour Review & Guest Post: Wake by Amanda Hocking
- Smash reviews The Ripple Effect by J.A. Saare
- TGIF: Unexpected Books and Let’s Talk: Top Literary Crushes
Have a fab week!
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It’s damn fun getting completely soaked! Hope your next trip to the Farmer’s Market is a bit less dramatic though.
It wasn’t fun at the time but we laughed all the way home.
I’m with you. I was kind of excited about Cremer’s erotica. She had me steamed up in Nightshade, but I dont like the idea of it set in that world. 1) I wasn’t crazy with the world building as we got into Bloodrose 2) those YAers that love her will want to follow her & aren’t necessarily the appropriate audience.
Yes, she wrote great steamy scenes, I admit it. But I want my YA to remain somewhat innocent. I guess I should get over it? I STILL haven’t red Bloodrose and I am SO nervous we will lose someone I love.
Don’t get over it. Books are usually better without much sex, in my opinion. Yes, sometimes the characters demand it. But a good book with believable characters can benefit from a lack of intimacy (example: Hunger Games would’ve been a mediocre book and likely not as big a hit if Katniss had lost her virginity before the epilogue. I could list many, many more examples.) Readers will recommend it to more people, and will not be ashamed to be seen reading it in public. A random note: spellcheck hates Katniss.
True. I have serious issues with some fantasy books that are drenched in sex and lose the plot. I am fine with erotica because going into it, I am prepared for the overabundance of sex. But in general, I need plot with my sex. As far as YA, I want innocent intimacy. My big hangup with Cremer’s new series is that I don’t want to take away that innocent intimacy that I associate with the series. *shrugs*
I see progress bars in your sidebar! YAY! I’m also somewhat relieved to know that I’m not the only one who still has a lot of books left on my AS,AS list. I was doing really well with it, and then the past month I’ve barely read any books from the list. Gah.
YES! They work beautifully. My AS, AS list was WAY to big to begin with. I plan to continue throughout the rest of the year. Once I get these reviews books off my plate this month, I plan to read WHAT I WANT!
Love those weeks where you do “nothing” (but still get so much accomplished). And yay for rain! I’m kind of hoping we’ll get some rain today, since we’re in a drought, like most of the country.
That’s a monster pile of books–yoooou can doooo eeeet!
Yea, GA needs the rain so I won’t complain. It was an experience. lol
Oh, I hope you like Ashes, Ashes! I really enjoyed it, and I hope Jo Treggiari writes more. I was kind of meh about the Ellen Conner books, though. And YAY for Eve and Adam. I can’t wait to read that one. I got Full-Blooded at BEA…it’s definitely a lot of fun.
I think we’ve had the Thai food conversation before. I love Thai food. I feel I could live off of peanut sauce. MAYBE I WILL.
I could live off Peanut Sauce TOO! I almost always get Pad Thai b/c I know that peanut sauce will be involved. I did get something different last time though, that involved coconut milk, which is also nummy.
I liked the first Ellen Connor book. I’ve heard mixed things overall. Eve and Adam is proving to be quite interesting and thought provoking.
That sucks about the rain at the farmer’s market! My hubs and I went to a heritage festival one year where you had to be bussed there, you couldn’t drive, and it was like a hurricane came through. We were absolutely soaked and the bus wouldn’t come get us for over an HOUR! But yes, you just have to laugh! It was a memorable day.
I HAVE THAT EXACT SAME OWL!!! I love him to bits!
Oh my gosh … your silly penis search term ALMOST made me spray my water all over the computer. That was hilaaaarious!
Have an awesome week!
I got drenched at an amusement park once, and had to walk around in soaking wet clothes for hours because we didn’t want to leave and waste our money. My feet were seriously waterlogged from my wet socks. Waterlogged feet are hella scary. Well, all feet are scary, but yea…
That search term almost made choke when I first heard it during the audiobook. I think I woke up the neighborhood with my cackles.
I LOVE that owl. Hubs couldn’t find another one, so he is a lone owl bookend, but he is a happy owl. lol
ENJOY LIFE!