Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge 22

Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge is where Tara @ 25 Hour Books and Amanda @ On a Book Bender shamelessly plug each other, share the fantastic posts, giveaways, or whatever else we’ve found and loved by other awesome bloggers (or authors!) during the week, and talk about the books we plan on reading in the coming week. [Description and banner borrowed from On a Book Bender]

The Corner Newsstand
(This week on Creativity’s Corner)

• Monday I reviewed Men in Black 3. It wasn’t nearly so bad as the reviewers rated it, but then again, I love time travel.
• Tuesday I reviewed the first three books in the Iron Druid Chronicles: Hounded, Hexed, and Hammered. I am sorely wishing that I hadn’t read someone else’s review halfway through the third, or I might still be enjoying them now.
• On Wednesday, I introduced a new semi-regular feature: Bookish Bucket List! (For more information, please see the “Schedule” tab under the “About” menu.) This week I featured The Hunger Games.
• Thursday I reviewed The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen.
• Saturday I signed up for the Seriously Series challenge, hosted by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal.

Behind the Desk
(My life behind the scenes)

It was a good week! (Well, except for that day when my servers went down and I lost everything since JUNE. But let’s not dwell on that.) I spent a lot of time catching up on things I couldn’t do while I was busy making sure all my apps got in on time. I got to see my best friend from college and we got to watch The Hobbit together. (I need the soundtrack. Like now. KTHXBAI!) AND I am 100% ready for Christmas, shopping and wrapping-wise. Now it’s just bake cookies this weekend and then BRING IT ON! 😀

Around the Corner
(Blog posts I found awesome since the last post)

There’s lots this week, just like I promised. You guys did lots of awesome stuff while I was busy!

• Amanda (On a Book Bender) shared her secrets for building community, and hosted a discussion on plagiarism.
• Kristilyn (Reading in Winter) wondered if we could avoid reading slumps. I know I personally don’t, no matter how I try.
• Stephanie (Once Upon a Chapter) confessed that she doesn’t read reviews. I feel like I’ve said this in response to a lot of posts recently, but I don’t either.
• Jess (Gone with the Words) introduced a feature where she reads YOUR favorite books. Sounds like lots of fun to me!
• Ruby (Ruby’s Reads) asked for recommendations of holiday books. I’m following this one closely because I never seem to be able to find any good ones!
• Enna Isilee (Squeaky Books) discussed Fan-fiction. I couldn’t make a comment box show up for some reason, so I didn’t get to join in, but it was a great discussion!
• 1st Daughter (There’s a Book) talked about her ALL THE FEELS books.
• Kelly (Reading the Paranormal) asked if we wanted help reminding us to keep up on the housekeeping around our blogs.

GoodReaders’ Digest
(Books I’ve read in the past week and books I plan to read next. Also includes stats for the Unbreaking the Shelves Challenge)

• Valkyrie Rising by Ingrid Paulson
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (audiobook)

Unbreaking the Shelves stats:

Get my “Embarrassed I haven’t read yet” shelf under 45.

• Beginning total: 65
• As of 12/15: still 58

Keep my to-read-now list as close to 250 as possible. Expert level: bring it down to 235.

• Beginning total: 253
• As of 12/15: 256

Added:

• NONE! Again! WOOOOO!

Read 15 books off of my Series Completion list

EXPERT LEVEL: Read a total of 57 books from the TBR list (overshooting my original GR year goal by 25)

AS OF 12/8: Original GR goal has been reached.