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
- Book Blogger Confessions: Blogger Relations
- Top Ten Tuesdays: Top Ten Bookish People You Want To Meet
- Smash reviews Eve and Adam by K. Applegate & M. Grant
- Hunter’s Season Blog Tour: Interview with Thea Harrison + GIVEAWAY!
- Smash reviews Hunter’s Season by Thea Harrison
- Audrey Reviews Intangible by J. Meyers
- Andrew Smith Saturdays: The Marbury Lens Discussion, Part Three
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In the life of Smash
My brave book protector…
Well, I never received a call back for a 2nd interview. BOO. BUT, I did get approved by the board to take my licensing exam. I am in major freak out mode. I am going to schedule the test for the end of October and will be not be as active with blogging during the month. I do have a ton of stuff scheduled already, but I need to focus on this test and therefore, I won’t be as active on Twitter or visiting blogs, etc. I’ve just only been half focused lately, and if I’m taking this sucker at the end of October, that gives me a month to really get down to biz. I’m going to take the practice test through the testing agency and see how that goes. I know the areas I need more practice in, and I’ve been focusing on those lately. I’m just not the best test taker in the world because of my nerves. It costs $230 (+ $100 fee to board + study materials) so I NEED to pass it on first try. Plus, I NEED to find a job, which is the entire point of this damn endeavor.
Last Sunday evening at book club, we discussed Ordinary Beauty. My review is not until 10/24 but holy shite, did I ever have a lot to say. I truly had to stop myself. It might be a bit much, but I hope you’ll read both my review and the book. I also made Pumpkin Spice cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting. Once again, they were a hit with book club. I truly love my new little role of providing heavenly awesome once a month to my peeps. I wish I could share them with all of you, too!
Lastly, I think the most exciting thing that happened to me all week occurred Friday night, when Kt alerted me to this:
*points to stepback quote”
SAY WHAT???? BLOWN. AWAY. PEOPLE. O.O
Woah. *smooths hair* Of course, be sure to visit Jennifer Estep’s website for the skinny on this new cover, as it’s quite a change from the rest of the series.
AND…join us in during the Elemental Assassins read-a-long!
Smashtastic Stats
- Read in 2012: 81 – I am SO going to surpass 100!
- Flip This Zombie (Living with the Dead, #2)
- Once (Eve, #2)
- Rise (Eve, #3) - I did a nail match. lol
- Currently Reading: 1
- Hexed (Iron Druid Chronicles, #2) - Finally revisiting Atticus and Oberon!
- TBR Owned Pile (Hardcopy + eBook): 474
- Acquired for Kisten the Kindle: 1
- {Free} Nada
- {Bought} Vexxed (JUST BREATHE Ephemera)
- Acquired for my bookshelves: 3
- The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle, #1) (Thanks, Scholastic!)
- The Diviners (The Diviners, #1) (October’s Book Club Read and HOLY CRAP, it’s almost 600 pgs long!)
- Dust & Decay (Benny Imura, #2)
- Acquired for Kisten the Kindle: 1
Unbreaking the Shelves Update
I updated my Gifted, Signed, Review Queue, and Review Request Complete shelves on Goodreads! I also created a shelf for books that are Novellas, since I seem to like these. 
I inhaled the Eve series by Anna Carrey so I could read the ARC of the final installment, Rise. ZOMG. In love.
*whistles* *shifty eyes*
The Living with the Dead series is hella entertaining. Highly recommend!
Tidbits from around the blogosphere
Authors/Publishers
- Kendall Grey shares information on her Ephemera shorts from the Just Breathe universe.
Bloggers/Bookish Sites
- Kristilyn (Reading in Winter) had an awesome visit from Rick the Zombie. Take that, blood suckas!
- Amanda (On a Book Bender) & Kelly (Reading the Paranormal) continue to take us on Great Literary Adventures. This week we visited 50 Shades of Snow White.
- Blogging Basics 101: Protecting Your Blog Content: The NickMom Blog Controversy
- Lorelle on WordPress: Blogrolls Gone in WordPress. How to Save Your Links.
- CopyBlogger: 10 Steps to a Secure WordPress Website
Things that make me smile
- This man. I ADORE HIM. Joseph Gordon-Levitt In Flaunt Magazine. And he STRIPPED ON SNL! *dies*
Thanks, Kristilynn! I DIE from cuteness every time I watch this, which has been quite numerous!
Search terms
- a hunger so wild sylvia day: Mel brings it!
- where to read the jenny pox series online: You buy it, asshole!
- acheron parthenopaeus: Oh dear heavens…that man…mmm…
- katie kacvinsky: I truly adore this author’s dystopian series, Awaken. Can’t wait to share my thoughts on Middle Ground!
- did stick found his brother bosten: Er, grammar first, please. Secondly, I would never spoil a book! I loved Stick!
- quotes from in the path of falling objects by andrew smith: A lot of Andrew love this week! My review.
- books with the title bedbugs: I don’t know if you’re ready for that book…
- glee always makes me cry: Damn that show! It definitely got to me during last season’s finale.
- tyson beckford car wash led to category/authors/j-l-bryan/ on the blog. What the tittlepop? o.O
Up Next…
- Smash reviews Pretty When She Dies by Rhiannon Frater
- Mel Reviews Diaries of an Urban Panther by Amanda Arista
- Smash reviews Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts
- Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Grade yourself!
- Cover Reveal: Release by M.R. Merrick
- Andrew Smith Saturdays: The Marbury Lens Discussion, Part Four
Have a fab week!
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Wowee … congrats on the quote in the book!! That’s pretty awesome! That’s too bad about not getting the second interview, but that’s good you can take your licencing exam! I hope you pass!
I really need to start the Benny Imura series .. I almost bought the second book, but thought I’ll wait until I start reading it.
You’re doing awesome with your Unbreaking the Shelves progress! I need to read the Eve series soon … I won the first two in hardback and they’re GORGEOUS!
Have a good week!
That book quote makes up for all the stress and sads I had this week. lol
ZOMG! The Eve covers are frakin incredible. I hope you love them. ♥ I still haven’t read the Benny series, but hey, I needed a book to round out $25 for free shipping, so there you go…lol
Ba ha ha ha! That piggy video was adorable! Thanks for sharing. I signed up for email updates–what a pain to have to redo it. Must feel nice to be more organized on Goodreads.
The Goodreads organization is going so well. I feel like a new person, kinda.
LOVE THE PIGGIE!
You rock the house. Way to go on the Book Quote
Bummer on the 2nd interview, but maybe the right thing is on the other side of your license exam.
I have Eve screaming at me from my shelf “I told you so”. It’ll be my first won-read for Unbreaking My Shelves. Love the nail polish.
Yes, I’m staying positive. Hopefully something better comes my way.
YAY! Eve and Caleb won’t be denied.
Ooh, that quote is sooo awesome, even better because you’re right alongside Nalini Singh! I found one of my quotes recently and almost cried–it’s a very cool feeling.
GOOD LUCK on your exam! I know you’ll do awesome. Study hard!
I am still in shock over that quote. CRAZYSAUCE awesome.
Thank you, Mary!
Okay, stop for a moment here. Does anyone know HOW Feedburner uses APIs? Until someone can answer that, I don’t think we need to panic. I actually read over the Feedburner API page (including the Awareness API page) and from what I can tell, it’s more about creating 3rd party applications to deal with Feedburner (think using TweetDeck for Twitter and Facebook). Granted, I don’t know much about APIs, but I think everyone is panicking needlessly.
Yay on your stepback quote! That’s so freaking AWESOME!
Ok, so maybe I don’t know everything there is to know about the Feedburner thing, but I’d rather have a service that consistently shows the subscriber count. I also get my emails sometimes 24-32 hours after the post goes live, and that just ain’t cool. That is my main reasons for changing at this time. If I continue to get both emails throughout October, I will make sure ppl know they can unsubscribe from Feedburner email service.
You do know that you can change what time your emails get delivered, right? So if it’s set up to deliver at 1AM, and you post at 7AM, you’re not going to get the email until the next day at 1AM. At least, that’s how I understand it.
Yes, I have it set to between 7 and 9 AM daily. So, something has been off with my feed for a while now. Not sure if it’s my end or theirs.
What time do you normally publish your posts? 7AM? Maybe it’s not picking it up right away. Have you tried changing the delivery time to a later time?
No, I figured 2 hours was enough, but I guess don’t know when it actually looks for the feed to email out. I get the RSS feed a few minutes after 7. *sigh*
Might as well be worth the try to see if that fixes it. Or you can check to see if the emails you receive right away are posts that were scheduled at midnight (giving it enough time to crawl the feed).
Awesome on the book quote! That had to be super exciting
I love the new cover for Jennifer Estep’s book!
After hanging with mommy bloggers for Bloggy Boot Camp I learned a ton about protecting your content. Evidently this is something they are very “up” on and we need to really pay attention. Between scrapers, auto-rss stealers, and actual content stealers it pays to be aware. Scary stuff I tell ya!
MEGA exciting. Still floored.
Yea, I want to research more about protecting content. Hopefully someone will talk about it during Bloggiesta this weekend.
I already showed my love for you on Twitter when I saw your quote Friday -How freaking awesome is that?? And, its on the inside cover!! <3 when bloggers quotes are featured #showinthelove
Good Luck on your test, I'm sure you will be fine #justbreatheandrelax
Btw, Spider's Bite is frakin' awesome so far 1/2 way thru and I'm savoring it<3 Gin!
Thank you!!! Isn’t Gin a BAMF?? Baddest bitch on the block!
Bummer about that interview
But good news about the test coming up! I hope that all your studying and hard work pays off!
And awwwww that tiny piggy!!! ADORABLE!
I JUST got called for the 2nd interview this morning. I cannot believe it. LOL.
Here are my comments, in order even:
-Booo! Down with Google products (and “the man”, too while we’re at it
-Boo-Hiss, losers don’t know a good thing!
-Holy freakin’ yeah!!! Beautiful cover to be on!!! You’re like a STAR!!!
-Nail match? >.<
-Awesome articles around the blogs… I've got them up to visit after you – you find everything!!!
-Oh Arthur!! I watched that clip and I had no idea he worked out!! I must go watch Inception again….
You have sooooooo much info in your posts I feel like I gained a whole brain cell…. and then promptly lost it at the end!! Have a great week!!
Oh big BOO about the job
– but maybe that just means there’s something bigger and better around the corner!
Congrats on the quote and ON THE COVER no less!
I DID get a call back for the 2nd intvw just yesterday. So, we shall see what happens!
Thank you!!!!
Congrats on getting quoted on the STEPBACK COVER of Deadly Sting!!
[...] this year, as well as being quoted in a few (one and two)! ANNNNNNNNNNNND. I am on the frakin STEP BACK COVER for Deadly Sting by Jennifer Estep. MAJOR MOMENT, people. [...]