Clock Rewinders (07/28/13)

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

• Kiss Across Chains by Tracy Cooper-Posey [Review] - There's always room for more time-traveling vampire menages if you ask me.
• Top Off Tuesday - Grab it, baby!
• Prodigy by Marie Lu [Review] - Book 3 is going to kill me, isn't it?
• Life Before Legend by Marie Lu [Quickie Review] - These snippets revved my interest in this series back up like WHOA.
• Doin' It Dirty 3.0 Goals - That's right, we're Doin' It Dirty again!
• Lion and the Falcon by Eve Langlais [Review] - THIS SERIES. It just gets more fun with every book.
• Vampire in Design by Dale Mayer [Review] - THINGS ARE HAPPENING.
• Doin' It Dirty 3.0 Recap - 16 books in 12 hours! BOOM!

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

• Currently unread - 538
• Books added - 7
• Of Wings and Wolves (Seasons of the Moon: Cain Chronicles #6) by S.M. Reine
• The Shadow of Mudflap (Foxtrot Team #1) by Christi Snow & M.F. Smith - For review!
• The Hunt (Taken by the Pack #6) by Cat Scofield - For review!
• New Beginnings (Others of Edenton #0.5) by Brandy L. Rivers - For review!
• Strangers by Michaelbrent Collings - For review!
• Ningaloo Nights by Tracy Cooper-Posey - For review!
• Freebies - Check the prices before you buy!
• Dead Again by Tracy Cooper-Posey (Romantic suspense)
• Books read - 30
• Currently reading 
• Operation: Endurance by Christi Snow

Kelly Land!

• In INCREDIBLY EXCITING news, I officially revealed the name I'm going to be publishing under. If you find me mildly amusing and/or want to know when I release my first (and more than first) book, feel free to sign up for my mailing list. I'll totally make sure you know what's going on. TOTALLY. Oh, my pen name? Kelly Apple. I stole my best friend's last name when she was tipsy. It was awesome.
• In slightly less exciting news, I updated my review format at the end of last week. I'm still making some tweaks, but I like the changes a lot and I'm glad I made the switch.

Globetrotting...

• On Wednesday, I was over at Amanda's blog with a review for Spell Bound (Hex Hall #3) by Rachel Hawkins. I ended up really liking how everything played out, despite some of my issues with a few of the things that happened in the earlier books.
• Free Books Need Love, Too! weekly reviews:
• Monday - Jake and the Other Girl by Emmy Laybourne
• Tuesday - GLA: The Monster in My Pants by John Lee Macker
• Wednesday - Reluctant by Kerrigan Byrne

Check it out!

• Seriously Series weekly update: Yeah, the Doin' It Dirty readathon REALLY helped those before 2013 numbers this week. I am pleased!
• Series started in 2013: 17/18 (+8 since last week)
• Series started before 2013: 2/18 (+0 since last week)
• Series rereads: 6/13 (static)

News from around the blogosphere:

• Bout of Books is looking for challenge hosts. If you're interested, head on over and get your ideas in to us because the challenge sign-up closes at 11:59pm (central time) tonight. Follow the Bout of Books blog if you're planning on joining us for the read-a-thon because sign-up to participate opens SOON!
• Bout of Books is also looking for Experts. If you love our read-a-thon and want to help out (and have participated in at least 3 previous BoBs), hop on over and sign up! WE WANT YOU! Sign up for this closes on July 31st. Do it!
• Amanda wrote a great birthday article about fighting insecurities. What she says is SO TRUE -- Insecurities LIE! Be brave and face them head-on!