Clock Rewinders (04/07/13)

Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge is the brain child of Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Tara @ 25 Hour Books.  I'm inviting myself to their party (as I sometimes do) because I have so damn much fun reading Amanda's posts that I couldn't help myself.

Reading the Paranormal Week in Review

• 2013 Why Buy the Cow? Reading Challenge: April Reviews
• Seriously Series 'Ssessment - Jan-March
• Seriously Series 'Ssessment - Kelly tackles round 1 - Holy crap, I read a lot of books!
• Review: Rebellion by Eleri Stone - Manly chest on the cover! RAWR!
• Top Off Tuesday - Highlander Alert!
• Serial Killers' featured review: Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh by R.L. LaFevers - Enjoyable enough, for the most part.
• Review: Something Deadly This Way Comes by Kim Harrison - Overall, the series fell flat for me.
• Review: Intentional Abduction by Eve Langlais - Holy big purple aliens, Batman!
• Review: Dual Abduction by Eve Langlais - Double purple alien alert!
• Review: Trace of Fever by Lori Foster - *licks* the cover.
• Discussion Post: A shift in ratings and the dreaded DNF - I'm EVOLVING, guys! EVOLVING!
  

Bookish Delights
Goodreads Stats - Loosely borrowed from Tara @ 25 Hour Books

• Currently unread - 485
• Books added - 9
• Lover Enraptured (Thieves of Aurion #2) by Jodi Redford - I loves me some Jodi review books! *clutches this one tight*
• Haunted Wolves (Green Pines #2) by Moira Rogers - For review! #NakedWerewolves!
• How Beauty Loved the Beast (Tales of the Underlight #3) by Jax Garren -  OMG! *swoony swoony swoon swoon* For review!
• Burn Baby Burn (Demon and Warder #1) by Shannon Donnelly - For review!
• Riding in on a Burning Tire (Demon and Warder #2) by Shannon Donnelly - For review!
• The Law of Three (Portal Arcane #2) by J. Thorn - For review!
• Freebies - Check the prices before you buy!
• In Heat (Sanctuary #1) by Sydney Michkal (Paranormal Romance)
• Dark Wolf Rising (Bloodrunners #4) by Rhyannon Byrd (Paranormal Romance)
• Married by Midnight (Pembroke Palace #4) by Julianne MacLean (Historical Romance)
• Books read - 8
• Currently reading - 2
• Soul Avenged by Keri Lake
• How Beauty Loved the Beast by Jax Garren

Globetrotting...

• Free Books Need Love, Too! weekly reviews:
• Monday - Demon's Kiss by V.J. Devereaux
• Tuesday - GLA: Taken by the Satyrs by Diana Katsaros
• Wednesday - Defending Serenity (Loribelle Hunt) and Roan's Fall (Marisa Chenery)
• Friday - Penetrating the Depths: March Edition

Check it out!

• Amanda and I are planning to bring some shenanigans to the blogosphere next weekend. That's right: SHENANIGANS! I can promise that we'll be playing in the blog housekeeping sandbox (I want your blogs to SHINE, dammit!) and Amanda is planning to give away a copy of Blog Smarter (her fantastic guide to helping your blog be all it can be!). And... AND we *might* have something fun to share while we're doing all this (No, it's not the #PeenSafari, although that could be arranged). We'll be tweeting with the hashtag #WeBlogSmarter on Twitter (Tweetchat is waiiiiiiting for you to use it!). Join us!
• I had a very fun opportunity present itself this week that cut into my reading time. I don't regret it at all.
• Seriously Series weekly update: I reverted my totals back down to zero (excluding rereads) as of April 1st, so my "since last week" update is a little out of whack. I'm sure you can figure it out.
• Series started in 2013: 2/18 (+2 since last week)
• Series started before 2013: 1/18 (+1 since last week)
• Series rereads: 4/12 (static)

News from around the blogosphere:

• There were a WHOLE slew of new covers that caught my eye this week (and by 'slew' I mean four. So, yeah.) ... Come Alive (Experiment in Terror #7) by Karina Halle (Dex and Perrrrrry!), The Iron Traitor (The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten #2) by Julie Kagawa (Holy penetrating eyes, Batman!), Archangel's Legion (Guild Hunter #6) by Nalini Singh (purple!), and Black and Blue (Otherworld Assassin #2) by Gena Showalter (I'm digging the overall composition of this one).
  

• Oh, hey. Did you see the City of Bones trailer? It's purty. And I think I like it.

• Meanwhile, the FABULOUS Jodi Redford is running a contest on her site where you get to submit suggestions to name the hero of her next That Old Black Magic book. Go! GO!
• Did you meet Amanda's newest Associate Reviewer yet? Jenna makes her triumphant arrival on the red carpet! Go say HI! She barely bites and it's not even hard when she does. *nods*
• And last but not least, a few months ago, I submitted the joint review that Amanda and I did for Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone to a super-sekrit project. It turns out that the blogs who submitted their reviews got mentioned in the paperback copy when it came out. Technically it's Amanda's blog name that is listed, but since it's a joint review, I'm taking a little bit of the coolness and claiming it for my own! Just pretend that says "My Blog joint review is on a cool site that is in the Shadow and Bone Paperback"! Boom! Done!

Until next week and all the shenanigans we'll be causing, my lovelies!